The other day I actually made the hike to Hard Off, which is about an hour away from where I live. Its funny because when I left my house I had no plans to go there at all, in fact I was going to the post office to ship a game I had sold. However when I got to the post office it turned out that they closed 10 before I arrived so I decided to check out a recycle shop about 10 minutes away. When I got to the shop it turned out to be a bust nothing new at all, it had been about 2 or 3 months since I had been there so I was hoping to see new stuff even if it was stuff I wasn't interested but nope nothing. After I left I saw a bus that was going to a place that I could then just on a subway then switch to the train to get to Hard Off and for whatever reason at that moment I just felt like I really wanted to get on that bus. So I made the trek there and took a look around.
At Hard Off I found zip, nada nothing. A big bummer because I had come from so far and this was the second location in the day that had looked just like the last time I had visited with seemingly no new stock. I made my way down the street to Eco Book to see if they had anything of interest.
When I got there I noticed that they had changed the layout somewhat but the games were still in about the same location. I also noticed right away that they were now selling PC Engine and Neo Geo CD games though there stock was limited to about 10 games for each console. Still it was nice to see as I had always wondered why they didnt have PC Engine games. I picked up another copy of Kyukyoku Tiger ($10) this one had the case so that was nice. Making my way to the Playstation games I was able to find another copy of Street Fighter Zero 3 ($3) which was nice to find.
Looking at the Saturn section I found a few games that were not there the last time I had come in but the prices, while not bad, were not great. Still I grabbed Tetris S ($3) and Panzer Dragoon ($3). I also grabbed another copy of Marvel vs Capcom 2 on the Dreamcast because at $5 the price was right.
For the original Xbox I found a copy of Panzer Dragoon Orta a little steep at $20 but I normally only see the platinum hits version of the game. I had brought my US version of the game with me to japan but after I had issues with my system last year it was replaced by microsoft with a japanese console and unfortunately that game is not region free. I also picked up Arcana Heart 3 ($15) for the 360, its an all girl 2D fighting game.
Then came the Super Famicom which had a good amount of new games in but the prices were prohibitive. I passed on Rockman X and X2 both had asking prices of around $12 but I had bought those titles here before and paid only $3 each so yea not this time. I also got another boxed copy of Street Fighter II Turbo ($2) this is the 3rd boxed copy I have now but I just can't pass it up at that price. I also got a copy of Super Gen Jin ($2). Then came the find of the day a loose copy of The Firemen ($15) an awesome game that was never released in the states but did get a PAL release. Normally this game is about $50 on eBay which is too high for me to pay even though I have wanted this game for awhile. I know theres a boxed (faded box) copy at a store near my house but they are asking $65 for it so I just couldnt justify it.
I also looked around the Game Boy section and found Pac-Man ($1), Solar Striker ($3) and a game that I had been trying to find for awhile F-1 Race ($2).
Today I broke out my backlight modded Game Boy and played some F-1, the game is really a lot of fun and it really makes me wish I had a chance to play it with the 4 player multi-tap but that will likely never happen. Still its a really fun game.
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