dcharlie

@RegalSin huh? Almost everything on sale is official merchandise - I know the type of store you are talking about but everything I've bought there that I think we'd both class as "tack" has been -fully official- tack

@Technosphile personally - yes totally agree here - for shopping Mandarake Galaxy in Nakano is also my favourite game store and saw the vast majority of my retro budget : great prices, clear rank system on products, helpful staff, good environment. Galaxy (and the Akihabara store) also seem to have a much steadier stream of products. Not mentioned in the article but Megadrive games are vanishing quickly - Potato is looking a little bare whilst Galaxy still has stock coming in regularly

@kantaroo Kyoto has a similar store that is similarly awesome - very Nintendo themed. I will try and dig out some photos and a map of where it is. perhaps there's an article in there too : non-Tokyo/Osaka game stores