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Pokart

I'm quite new to collecting retro Japanese retro Nintendo games and I can't find many other people who do the same. I would love to talk about Japanese games and share tips about the hobby.

I love playing and collecting modern and retro games and I'm very excited about Metroid Dread.

Anti-Matter

@Pokart
Konnichiwa ! 😊
I played some Japanese games too.
Both Nintendo and PlayStation games.
The retro Japanese games i played such as:
PlayStation
1. DDR PS1 games
2. DDR PS2 games
3. Beatmania IIDX PS2
4. Pop'n Music PS2 + PSP
5. Guitar Freaks & DrumMania PS2
6. Para Para Paradise PS2
7. Keyboardmania PS2
8. K-1 World MAX 2005 PS2
9. Minna no Tennis 2 PS2
10. Monster Farm 4 PS2
11. Bomberman Battles PS2
12. Bomberman Land 3 PS2
13. Pocket Fighter PS1
14. Chocobo Racing PS1
15. Puzzle Bobble 3DX PS1
etc

Nintendo
1. Kurikin: Nano Island Story NDS
2. Kirei Zukin 2 NDS
3. Ochaken no Heya games NDS
4. K-1 Pocket Grand Prix 1 + 2 GBA
5. Zettai Onkan Otoda Master NDS
6. Ochaken no Daibouken games NDS
7. Custom Battler Bomberman NDS
8. Minna no Conveni NDS
9. Minna no Doubutsuen NDS
10. Minna no Suizokukan NDS

Non Retro
1. Yokai Watch 3 Tempura 3DS
2. AKB48 + Me 3DS
3. WanNyan Doubutsu Byoin 3DS
4. Tamagotchi: Seshun no Dream School 3DS
5. JS Girl: Doki Doki Model Challenge 3DS
6. Miracle Tunes 3DS
7. Sumikko Gurashi game 3DS
8. Maho Cole: Maho Idol Collection 3DS

Anti-Matter

Pokart

What are some people's favourite Japanese-exclusive box arts?

I love playing and collecting modern and retro games and I'm very excited about Metroid Dread.

Pokart

@Anti-Matter Hi!
I love collecting super famicom, gameboy and n64 in Japanese right now. One of the best parts is that the boxarts always look amazing and fit on the shelf so well.

I love playing and collecting modern and retro games and I'm very excited about Metroid Dread.

Anti-Matter

Pokart wrote:

What are some people's favourite Japanese-exclusive box arts?

My Top 3:
1. 3DS Box art
2. NDS Box art
3. Wii Box art

Anti-Matter

Pokart

@Anti-Matter My absolute favourite Japan-Exclusive box art would be Ocarina of Time and especially the manual.

I love playing and collecting modern and retro games and I'm very excited about Metroid Dread.

Anti-Matter

@Pokart
My retro games are mostly started from late 90's (1998, 1999) and 2000 - 2010 era.
I have no longer interest with NES, SNES games despite they were my childhood games as i have no longer interest with 8 / 16 bit graphics anymore.
I didn't grow by N64 games as i played PS1 games when i was teen. Same case with Gamecube as i played PS2 games instead.
But i have collected 5 USA Gamecube games when i already adult and can get money to buy things.

Anti-Matter

Pokart

@Anti-Matter I only recently started really liking 8bit and 16bit styles but I also have a few European GameCube games like smash bros melee which is now one of my favourite games. I think my favourite style has to be the Game Boy Advance which I believe works at 32 bit graphics.

I love playing and collecting modern and retro games and I'm very excited about Metroid Dread.

BASEDSAKRI

@Anti-Matter chocobo racing is so underrated. Wish square would bring it back one day.

BASEDSAKRI

Lightgazer

@Pokart Elnard's Boxart is really cool compared to the US one (The 7th Saga)

I do collect Japanese games but right now with the new rules for EU its getting incredibly hard to collect them, for a good Price that is.

Also, Cave Noire might be up your alley, check it out if you have the Time.

Someday, somewhere in the Sky...
may we meet again.

My Nintendo: Lightgazer

KingMike

@Anti-Matter I am feeling the reverse. Have so many games on newer consoles, yet I cannot avoid regularly playing and replaying 8/16 bit games.

Currently Final Fantasy III NDS has shown signs it may have heard me talking about its difficulty being dumbed down compared to the Famicom. But I shall see in time. One of many games I played and raqequit near the end like 20 years ago, that I have recently made some attempt to replay by comparing Japanese and English versions.

KingMike

BASEDSAKRI

@CactusMan Its on my wishlist. I had dungeon 2 on ps1 as a kid and liked it quite a bit.

BASEDSAKRI

KingMike

Too bad to hear that part of the reason Chocobo's Dungeon 1 didn't get localized was rumors that the programmer deleted the source code as soon as the Japanese version shipped. Not like they'd need to make programming changes or anything for a potential western release.

KingMike

Shroudednightmare

parasite eve
xenogears
chrono cross
thousand arms
lunar silver star story

just to name a few

Shroudednightmare

F-ZeroX

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I bought this one recently at a retro fair. A magical experience of my childhood, this game blew me away. One kid in my neighborhood was an early adopter. When he got his N64, for days there was literally a line of people at his house, waiting to have a go at Mario. Never have I seen that before or since.

Up to that point, box art had been generally hand drawn art work (like with the old movie posters), but Nintendo's N64 box art is dinstinct. It features computer generated images to really emphasize the 3D (revolutionary at the time).

I let my 6 year old have a go at it. It's the first real video game he has tried. Let him run around a bit in front of the castle and in the first world. He was scared of the chain chomp hehe.

When I was in Japan I visited the Super Potato store in the Akhihabara district of Tokyo. Just to look at the box art. They had arcade machines on the top floor. You can still find arcade halls in Japan running games from the 80's and 90's.

Some more acquisitions from the fair:

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Update: I got it the Mario 64 game is the Shindou version. Meaning they made some minor in-game changes, removed the backwards long jump glitch and added rumble pack support.

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F-ZeroX

KingMike

Sorry but did someone slab a bootleg Kung-Fu Master box?
The Game Boy logo isn't normally on the top of the artwork.

KingMike

F-ZeroX

@KingMike Yes, the game came in a cassette tape box with a print of the image on the cartridge. Pretty neat.

F-ZeroX

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