RARE and EXPENSIVE Games at Super Potato in Akihabara
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Taking a look at all the rarified air inside of Super Potato's glass cases. Heavy hitters for the Famicom, PC Engine, Sega Saturn, Neo-Geo and a whole lot more. Wallets weep at the sight of these games that cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a pop.
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When you see Ted DiBiase, you know NeoGeo AES stuff is going to appear.
Nice to see an update on the prices for the expensive games. Thanks, Jim!
@Falcom Scott were
That intro commercial *RAISED* ...my eyebrows.
Hahah 😂
XMen Vs Street-fighter on the Saturn was always pure magic with that amazing jewel case artwork. It was always my favorite. I hope that the emulation for Saturn continues to improve. Because all of this stuff is so expensive.
Tbh it's rather funny how people still say "I hope that emulation for Saturn continues to improve" in 2021, when the Saturn came out in 1994 and just about anything runs PS1 emulation very well and has for a long time. Just goes to show how it's sometimes very much worth just getting original hardware and using alternative means to play expensive titles. These days, for Saturn you could use PseudoKai with burnt discs pretty cheaply, or spend a few hundred to get an ODE like the Phoebe/Rhea and MODE (which requires some installation) or the sleekest, most plug and play ODE of them all, the Satiator. If you couple such an ODE Saturn with some RGB or component cables on a nice CRT you pretty much have a dream setup. That being said though, there are still quite a number of exclusive and desireable Japanese Saturn games that are very cheap. Not the celebrated and rare shooters and 2d fighters you see here, of course, but still. Quite a few of the games I picked up some 5 years ago were even as cheap as 250ish yen with local shipping from Amazon Japan.
I enjoy seeing the rare expensive stuff every now and then. Very cool!
Japanese commercials make me always smile :-) Thanks for rare games tour!
Are you really from planet Silveria?
I like looking around Super Potato. I found it by looking up nonsense on google one night, and found a walkthrough video of this place. All I knew was that it was somewhere in Japan and I'd never go there.
Years later I went to Tokyo with my girlfriend, and we decided to spend a day in Akihabara. All I knew is that Akihabara was the computer/tech area, and I'd probably find SOMETHING interesting there. My girlfriend was mad at me for not planning that day. We were on the train, just about to arrive when she started lecturing me for not even planning anything and we're ALREADY THERE WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?!?!
So... I pulled out Google Maps and typed in "retro games", and the first result was.... SUPER POTATO!!! It was like a block away! I remember that place! That's that awesome game store I saw on RUclips!!!! I'm going there!!!
Super Potato saved the day. I've been there on several different trips now.
always a treat the showcases at the potato. although only mad man would buy there xD
really happy I bought most of my stuff long before this went off like crazy..
Akumajo Dracula famicom version was a very late release in the famicom life, back in 1993, 7 years after the FDS version. You sometimes get lucky on YAJ and it pops up for under 30000 yen. Not surprised to see the super potato tax applied here.
Thank you Jim!!! Awesome video, exactly what a collector wanna see, finally someone show rare and expensive famicom games, I love your videos, keep doing what you do, we really appreciate your work!!!
even just browsing it's a fun experience
Yo kid first of all would like to say thank you for your service second of all like to say love your videos keep up the good work brother giving you a shout out from Portland Maine USA
One of the things that surprised me the most when looking at games in Akiba myself a few years ago definitely was the crazy good conditon of those second hand games.
the intro is gold🤣
Thanks for the price updates. I believe Super Potato is more like a museum nowadays, some of those prices are quite high and you can often find them cheaper on Ebay or Yahoo Japan. Even cheap games cost more at Potato compared to Suruga or Trader. Looking forward to an update from Mandarake :)
I'll stick with collecting MVS. Thanks for the awesome video!
Honestly .. who is still traveling to Japan to shop at such prices?
Even when buying, you'd never ever dare to open the box.
Really wonder whether Japanese are also so bananas about collecting the basically old games on Super Famico / NES, Saturn .. basis. 100,000 yen and more .. crazy!
If I had $2 million, I’d buy this entire display case of rare games and still have money leftover rather than a Wata-graded Super Mario Bros.
Hahahah I would buy toilet paper before I bought a wata rated game
At least it’s Super Potato prices. Still, some games have become 400-600% more expensive during the last decade…
I'd take super aleste and biometal from the sfc cabinet in a heartbeat. Those prices are cheap as chips for that condition.
As an old console collector.. this is heaven on earth for me.
Japanese video game commercials are the best
I'm inclined to agree. 👍
Agreed. I love that he includes them in his videos :)
Believe it or not that AES Gunlord has been reduced in price, it’s been there for a long time.
Can't help but wonder what was on the Nintendo Power SF Memory Cartridge at 5:08. I'm looking to visit Japan once it opens back up again and I'm gonna spend more time than is probably necessary looking for Japan only releases of Fire Emblem games with one of them being available on those SF carts.
Great vid as always man. I love watching these videos as retro game stores are my jam and the way you go through them is extremely interesting and entertaining. Keep up the good work!
When I was a kid I didn't have an NES, I had a Famicom. I actually still have all of my games, including some of the ones you showed in the display case. Still boxed. =D
Those are the most well-stocked glass cases I've ever seen in a video game store.
God damn Jim, how do you walk around with those humungous balls???
Best video. Do this in every store you go to. Hardoff, sudagaia, ect.....
Hard off, more like Hard on!
These retro game prices are insane. I love the Akuma price tags this store uses.
What a hell was that commercial?! Japan is a different breed alright :)
Rival Schools from Capcom
Can you imagine if they listed condition of games in the west?
Condition: Shit, Condition: Shit, Condition: Shit, Condition: Shit, Condition: Great (Just broken case, sticky, and light scratches!), Condition: Shit, Condition: Shit
Compared to Japanese standards, it would be the scale lol.
Ooh the drooling 🤤 cabinets.
What is your most expensive video game? Mine is probably klonoa 2 on PlayStation 2 or special edition of shadow of the colossus also for Playstation 2
wow maximum the hormone @8:13
Great video. Nice diversity and love the, be it brief, glance at MSX games.
Msx used to be so affordable then the prices exploded 🥺
Keep up the great vids my man in Japan! Would love to see some sites or culture like stuff a bit too! And once you have your new apartment game collection set up give it a show! :-)
Ooooh! Rare and expensive. That's all I need to know Jim. 8^)
Anthony..
It does hurt that in Japan, downloading ROMS would actually get you in jail becauase "illegal downloading".
How do the prices generally compare to Pricecharting?
I wonder if they have Dracula New Classic in that sealed soundtrack window :P
Some Super Poatato and Jim is an uber time!
A lot of gorgeous games here - those AES are mental money to a pauper like me.
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Nice video.
Sold off my NA copies of R-Type 3 and Space Megaforce (Aleste) so if I was there I'd definitely buy those boxed copies of them as well as that Macross snes title
Scramble valkyrie is one of the best shoot em ups ever made. I got a loose one, at super potato (different location) last year, and even loose it was 6000 yen.
Another AMAZING game is the Sailor moon SuperS fighting game, but the price has been going up. I saw it yesterday, in box, for like 16000 yen.
Also watch out for super turrican. That game is over 100,000 in box.
this is insane.
Super famicom games were never sealed when new. About that Link to the past
Gekirindan is a good game, just not on the Saturn due to some inept programming, had it been put out by Ving, it would've been far better. Last time I saw a copy of the Saturn version in the wild was in San Antonio, Texas, at a game shop for $50 (I passed on it, getting Kyukyoku Tiger II Plus Saturn, and Image Fight/X-Multiply PS1 for $50 a pop instead. Another $50 there would've netted me the Saturn version of Wonder 3/ Three Wonders, but I had already spent nearly $200 on games, back when prices were cheaper, so I got a lot). I just play it on Taito Memories on the PS2 instead. The game is basically Taito's love letter to Toaplan.
That's a good doctor.
Prices are generally out of control, I admit it's put me off collecting, I goto to conventions and don't even buy anything these days, I find myself more open to just emulating because I just want to play, most of these games wont ever get re-released so it's the only way, not like Konami is going to bring Snatcher back out etc, anyway nice video the intro had me in lol's.
You never know these days when a remake is calling...
@@creekandseminole The sad thing is they only seem to remake stuff from the PS3 era, before that is the forgotten time.
Somebody know some webshop adress? I have a few ebay store... but there items are "limited" and some are unreasonably expensive. thanks.
Can someone tell me what's the name of the game music playing in the background while he's talking?
Unless I become a multi millionaire I will never collect video games; but I do enjoy seeing stuff like this x3
I wish I had more money
Is it possible to see some GameCube next time?
Well that was depressing... ;P
Somebody's gotta buy that Maximum Carnage cart for the lulz at some point.
Man I want to play Hyper Duel, but with that price tag it’ll never happen.
How do you calculate the cost of something in Japan by dollars? Is it the amount of yen times $0.90?
Cool 😎 man 👨 I know
There's no such thing as a factory sealed super famicom game, no famicom or super famicom game came sealed in plastic.
wow that's definitely way too rich for my blood... and about 190USD for cheetahmen 2? are there folks that collect for US systems over there? I guess it's not that weird I have a modest SFC and JPS2 collection started, so the inverse is likely possible. still fun to see the walkthroughs of these game shops even if I'd never be able to afford any of those without having to go without rent food or utilities, lol
nah its because NA games are rare over here.
I'm sure some Japanese people collect NA games...not many though
@@pilotamurorei oh I believe it, seeing them in the shop like that just had me wondering...
@@darktetsuya I've seen some (even an NES, full in box) at the Super potato where I live. Last time i bothered to look, they had an English castlevania 2 too. I've been too busy looking into cheap saturn games no one pays attention to, like Slayers, tenchi muyou, etc. Some saturn games like the Cotton games are WAAAAAAY too expensive :/
@@pilotamurorei oh wow! always surprised to hear about what their import scene is like, wild to imagine them seeing an NES like that. but I definitely believe it on some of the saturn games being more expensive, I'm sure KS has shown a fair share of top tier saturn imports going for crazy money!
Japan does everything right when it comes to game collecting. 700 bux for a mint boxed copy of zelda 3 game is reasonable since it's a collectors item for a special interest audience. Especially since a loose cart from hard-off intended to be played and not to sit in a display case would probably be more like 5 bux . In the western retro markets prices have gone completely bonkers and offer much less perspective in the pricing.Where people charge insane prices for loose carts and opened boxes as if they were mint factory sealed items, not to mention the flood of repros being sold as genuine on eBay. I much prefer the curated japanese approach where people who really want a mint copy of a game can get it, but people who just wanna play simply buy a loose cart where some kid scribbled his name over the backside with sharpie for a fraction of the price.
I miss Japan very much
Very expensive...
buy here, trying sell in america, lose all the money expended
Why do all the fun geeky retro gaming videos have people commentating over them with unfathomably sharp esses when they speak on low budget microphones... please learn to edit. I want to watch the content but your esses are piercing my ears
no sorry i cant be anything but blunt and to the point.
its how you get the point across.
isn’t super potato just for white tourists and massively overpriced?
not necessarily. Ive gotten some games there for a reasonable price (aka: Around the same as if i had gotten them off Yahoo Japan). Some games are WAY overpriced but as I've been more careful when looking for certain games, ive noticed their prices arent horrible unless you want something super rare. I live nice and far away from Tokyo (aka Tokyo is NOT Japan) so the prices at the SP where i live are much more reasonable.