Let's Hunt for Games at Book Off in NYC
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- NYC has no shortage of video game stores but it also has a Book Off. These shops are quite popular in Japan and super cool they have one just a few blocks away from the Nintendo NY store. Here's what it looks like on the inside and what we found. TONS of games, books, anime, figures, DVDs and a lot more.
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CLICK ruclips.net/video/IxLBji-CA8A/видео.html to See me hunt for games in this NY indoor flea market.
and let me know which store I should visit next?
You should definetly check out video games nyc, and J and L games. They are both in Manhattan. And there is a waffles and dinges, right by J and L too.
The Big Apple!
Book-Off used to have great prices, but for years now they routinely ask well over market value for games. LONG gone are the days when I could find something like Metal Warriors there for $3.
They're in the heart of Manhattan where rent is higher than the skyscrapers. It's to be expected.
Book off use to be the place to score some games at below market value. But last couple years they have really jacked up the prices. One of the people I knew there told me they had management changes so now when they get games they have only people experienced in gaming look up prices on price charting. But then again everything in Manhattan has gone way up.
They must have found out.
@@JohnRiggs retro collecting in NYC is tough these days. You either have t o drive all the way out to LI or pay the extreme higher prices on Manhattan. It's a real shame because back in the day Main Street Flushing was king for gaming. Arcades and tons of mom & pop shops everywhere uptill around PS1/Dreamcast/GameCube era.
And yes only the most experienced people can use the google machine too look up price charting.
I remember finding Book Off by accident one day walking back to my old office after lunch. Great store!
wow, this store is amazing, it's very cool to play in an emulator, but it must be much more magical to see cartridges and things like that in front of you
Welcome to the tri state area. High prices are the norm.
Cat Trax is from the Emerson Arcadia 2001, me and my brother had one way back in the day!
I’ve been to Book Off at 45th Street so many times as it’s become a frequent spot for me to look for video games as I happen to live in NYC and I will be going back there next Saturday or Sunday depending on my schedule. Either way Great Tour John Riggs.
Anybody notice that PS5 is lying upside down? 😆
Places like this I just walk out of...Prices are scalping prices(PS 5)
Book-Off was one of my “go-to” places back when I worked in Manhattan many years ago pre-pandemic era. I’d say the BEST finds I had was a white Japanese PS2 slim for $59 & a loose SFC cart of “Pop-n-Twinbee” for only $5 bucks.
I agree prices have gone up & they “slip” far less now but it’s still a fun place to visit from time to time.
days of a bygone era
There’s a book off in NYC? I gotta check it out next time I’m in town.
In Thailand have Book off too
I want some Super Famicom cartridges to play in my Supaboy. But nothing that requires understanding Japanese text obviously.
That's my spot.. i hit them couple times a month. Stuff is priced up but you can catch em slipping sometimes👍🏽
For laughs I put this into Google maps to see how far the nearest one is from me.... that would be 18 hours.
Dear mercy they'd have to kick me out at closing time because I'd be all over the place.
😂😭😱🎮👍
80 bucks for punch out loose 🤣🤣🤣. Ebay even beats that ....beautiful place though. 👍
Pricecharting has it at $35. That's over 100% markup! Absolutely ridiculous.
Well, prices are not the same as Japan... Which is obvious. Still cool that BOOK-OFF exists in NYC!
Darn, I was in NYC for a 2nd time and I wasn't able to visit that store!
I love the economy of size and design of the Famicom carts.
isn't 189$ basically retail price for the switch lite?
When your door is closed ur mom yells "you better not be booking off"
Are these videos from now or just catching up from posting from the LI retro con?? Seems like you’re in the NY area for while, which is awesome.
NO MORE STICKERS ON CARTS!! Sticker on baggy or put the sticker on your jeans first, to make them less sticky and then stick them on the back, off of the label.
i'm surprised a book off survived in nyc. the owners must be paying at least 75,000 a month in rent if not more for the building it's in
This store looks soooooooooooooooooooo awesome. Thanks for showing it off to us John
I couldn't help it I would have to go there even with those prices, just to be able to see the games in person.
$80 for Mike Tysons Punch-out!? Insane. Even $50 is gouging.
We have quite a few here in LA and I love them!
Prices at Bookoff typically at market or above with the occasional deals and steals when under priced. I live near the San Diego Bookoff in Socal and I have visited the other 5 Bookoffs in Orange County and LA - the love the ability to physically see and browse thru the games especially the imports. Temper your expectations and you'll find a hidden gem here and there.
I've had my share of steals as recent as this week - I bought a n64 expansion pak priced at $3.99 :) typically goes for $50 or seeing GC Super Smash Bro Melee horribly overpriced at $109 - prices are all over the place.
Protip: if you see multiple copies of the same game with different prices - check the Date below the price usually say A09/17/2022 the date will indicate when Bookoff got the market price for that item.
Example: I saw a copy of 3D Dot Hero for PS3 - one dated 09/01/2022 priced at $69.99 and another copy priced earlier in the year 03/15/2022 priced at $39.99 - same game $30 difference.
ooh, I'll be in LA in a couple weeks. I'll have to check out the Book Off there if I can.
Cat Trax is an Emerson game for the Arcadia 2001.
Did they have Intellivision, Colecovision, 5200, 7800, Bally Astrocade, Odyssey 2, Dreamcast, Turbo Grafx, Neo Geo, 3DO, Jaguar, Lynx, cd-i, Xavix,
It's amazing, you can find an Arcadia game but not a Dreamcast game.
0:41 FYI all the recent Resident Evil collector’s editions (7, 2 Remake, 3 Remake, Village) were GameStop exclusives.
The prices clearly show the need to pay for those NY rents..
Oh, dude. A Book-Off stateside??? That's awesome. Would lose my mind looking through Famicom stuff in a Book/Hard-Off...
There are a few in the US
yeah NYC prices, they have to pay that expensive rent lol
Hi, is it possible to get cheap PlayStation 2 games in downtown New York?
Oh wow I didn't knew about this store even though I've never been to NYC that I recall. I'm in Rochester and there used to be a local chain of stores called Game Craze but they closed like 4 years ago. Now there's no retro stores here. That store looks O.K. even though is too far to go. Thanks for sharing your adventures. Good showing and cool video John!👉😃👈
I miss Game Crazy
@@JohnRiggs was that a store in your area? I think more and more stores are closing because people are buying on-line! It's sad to see these retro stores go John.😭
Can't believe they would put the price stickers on the cart stickers instead of on the arts themselves.
Thankfully there not hard to get odd unless they been on it for years.
I love my BookOff in San Diego, CA. It's an east asian store chain.
amazing video but please make longer videos! :)
Riggs always got awesome pickups videos!
Been here a few times about 10 years ago. They really ramped up their video game selection since then.
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oh yeah I know there's a few of those scattered throughout the states, I know there's one in San Diego I would love to be able to get out to someday! so cool to see they have a mix of both domestic games and Japanese imports, definitely a perk at shopping at someplace like that.
🤯WHOA! I want to visit this place
Thank you for the heads up information and I can visit because I’m in the Bronx I hope to find any deals for psp
Man, I'd be so irritated. So much stuff I'd want, but like 15 to 30 times the price it should be. Cool, this was 200 Yen, and here it's...$30 US. Nice. Oh well.
That place looks like McKay's from my area of the US. I found a Casino Kid 2 there for $7.95 once 😎
Those hard off stickers show how much they over priced the import games. Good chunk of the cheaper games probably came from hard offs junk section looking at the condition so they were the games they couldn't sell in Japan. Can shop ebay for much better deals on most of the imports
Yeah. I dount there are many hard ons for Hard Offs prices.
Agreed. Japanese imports on eBay can lead to great deals. Also France, Germany, and Denmark seem to have insanely low game deals.
I was literally their two days ago love that store!
The ps5 is actually a good price considering people are out here spending 1,000 still, at least here in Houston they are. Theirs a guy at my local flea market that constantly goes to GameStop and bestbuy when they do the ps5 drops, he usually ends up getting 4-6 ps5s then he sells them for 1000 or he does a raffle. The raffles he makes 1500 per ps5 it’s insane
I’d love to have a famicom and super famicom game place! Our game store is crap just a square with some snes sega and n64 they have everything inventoried on a computer hidden in back and you can’t touch anything without asking for it and being handed to you
as always enjoyable
Yoooo John I am from nyc u better watch out u don’t get robbed down there streets is crazy 😂😂😂
it's easy to be safe when I can just step on fools
You a big boy John but nyc fools don’t care they rob u lol 🤡🤡
Columns for Game Gear is good in its own right, even when compared to its graphically-improved 16-bit counterpart.
Sucks that their pricing isn't like it used to be.
Hard off is a really funny name.
Was the Samurai Pizza Cats in the bin?!?
Ooooh, you should totally do a trip to Toy Tokyo in NYC :)
Rip to anyone in the NYC game collecting scene. I remember the years I lived their strictly being an eBay collector.
I always find a lot of good stuff at that store.
Video game collecting use to be fun
Omg a wonder boy 3 my favorite wonder boy
Been to Book Off many times over the years was born in Manhattan lived in Spanish Harlem till I was 8 then the family moved to Long Island but I try to get there everytime I'm in the city or almost everytime but it has gotten expensive like everything else since inflation has gone up pretty bad but it's a cool store but there are better retro game stores in Manhattan like Video games New York and J&L Games
Back in the day I had just a few games on the game boy pocket ... Beavis & Butthead was one of them. Think I kinda sucked at it lol.
yea they can be dishonest there. i tried to get a loose DQ 9 from a glass case and it was japanese. i noticed after i left the store. had to go back and get a DQ4 ds US version. then the old lady at the register gypped me for like 2 or 3 dollars out of nowhere. it was weird.
That PS5 is over priced. It's used. They are a scalper!
Super Famicom for $3 ok great 👌 deal
What a big store, full of retro games 🎮
This was cool.
Used to be a great place to find cheap stuff. But it changed and it’s now eBay prices. Yikes.
Plenty 9f good stock in there
Manga Manga? What were you thinking when you first saw it say Manga downstairs?
Pretty sure that Italian for "eat up"
Anything in any major city is going to be outrageously expensive. You're better off finding whatever you're looking for elsewhere.
Yea true but NYC is unique in it's own because it's the only place you can buy just about anything you want black market or not as long as the money is right for the right price and you also better have a lot of 💵💰💵 looking & shopping for something here in NYC you can't find anywhere else in the country or world for that matter!
That and there's a good chance you would get raped or murdered in NYC. Didn't you hear? It's legal there now.
Are Book Off's prices fair market value or are they over priced?
Are you able to haggle or do price comparisons?
Usually market prices any more, but u can catch them slip a lot of times if u know your local place very well on random items. no you can't haggle or go this game is 30 why is this one 15 can u match the price. There trade in value kinda sucks tho unless it has demand then it might be good.
A ps5 in the wild
Shops in Japan are way better. Thank God not a ton of people flock here for games because they'd be picked clean in a heartbeat like american shops are.
Japan game with USA prices.
Bananas prices.
Have these people never seen what this stuff goes for on eBay? Even with the $20 shipping it’s still cheaper. New York is horrible for buying games in stores.
Meh, Book Off by name alone. Seems like a good amount of those carts we're in bargain bin condition being sold for glass case prices.
Nice👍
Nice😃
Nice😂
why new york the rent is expensive
Absolutely tragically over priced
man i hate those simpsons season 6 Dvd Faces.
Just ugh.
It’s impossible to find the boxset.
Putting their crappy stickers on the bare cardboard of CIB games is a no-go from me.
lol that super mario world ¥ vs $ difference is hilarious. face it, affordable game collecting in the US has been dead for a decade
I wasn't a fan. Of seeing all the price tags on all those labels.
$80 for Punch Out.Now way
I SHOULD HAVE CAME HERE THAN J&L VIDEO GAMES.
Wow it seems way overpriced
they can be. gotta shop around.
That location is over priced and they try to rip you off when doing trade ins
NYC residents are so classy
Ahh yes, Book Off NY, where they charge you US game prices on Japanese games. Infuriating.
No. You should not play Quest 64
I think it's funny that they went with the name Book Off for the US because here in Japan, Book Off usually sells just movies, CDs and books. A sister company called Hard Off is the one that sells electronics which includes video games and video game systems. I guess they went with Book Off instead of Hard Off for the USA because of the unfortunate naming similarity to an erection. (Or lack thereof!)