When I did the post about handhelds in game shops the other day I didn’t think I’d see enough to make a followup, but here we are!
We own this game, and it’s Kristin’s since childhood. Unfortunately we don’t have the box. I wonder how much of the ~$1500 price tag on the above is due to the box?
The Zelda Game & Watch used to be my holy grail, and the times I used to see it during Japan trips I’d often seriously debate buying it. In those days it was $200+ but the one I saw yesterday was almost ten times more expensive. Also note the Mickey Mouse in back for over $2000.
A couple of lovely boxed games.
And two more. There’s a difference of about ¥4000 ($25) between the two Puck Mans, but neither is in perfect condition so I’d say they’re more or less equivalent.
This is a curiosity: a colour VFD Mr Do machine! It’s ‘damaged’ and ‘dirty’ but works and I think as a child I would have found this irresistible! As an adult I think $1000 is eye-opening.
Remember the broken pachinko game from the other days post? Remember how I said I would have paid ‘several times’ ¥500 if it had been working? I found another one, and it’s ‘only’ ¥3400. So why didn’t I buy it? It’s also not working 🙂
I’ll end this this little thing, which is only about two inches wide and has only a tiny LCD screen. This is a device to train your button press speed in order to make you a better video-gamer. The bee on this is the logo for a game company called Hudson, and this tells me this particular device was linked to the saga of a man called Takahasi Meijin, the fastest button presser of all time. In fact it’s remotely possible this is the very same device he used when he set his immortal 16-times-in-one-second record. Wouldn’t that be special?
Also, I have a dim memory I own one of these. If I do, I’ll follow up when I get home.