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The Doctor Goes Retro Gaming Shopping in Japan

April 5, 2024 By ausretrogamer

Our resident doctor, Dr. Brant Raven is currently in Japan on holidays. Instead of heading to Suzuka to catch the F1 circus or the cherry blossoms, he has instead gone hunting for retro gaming goodies in Ikebukuro, another centre of otaku culture. The Doc has his priorities right.

This time, Brant paid a visit to Super Potato. Before you get too excited, this Super Potato store is much smaller than the main store in Akihabara, but it’s still adorned with nostlagia inducing retro gaming products. Brant tells us that the store is very small, but it has “shelves and shelves and shelves full of very rare stuff” – they were his words! Unfortunately Japan hasn’t been immune to costs rising, so the retro stuff that the Doc was checking out was expensive.

For now, we are living vicariously via Dr. Raven and can’t wait for him to send us more pics as his visits more retro gaming stores!


 

Filed Under: Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: Akihabara, Brant Raven, Cherry Blossom, classic gaming, Ikebukuro, Japan, Otaku, Retro Gamer, retrogaming, retrogaming hunting, Super Potato

Thrill Of The Chase: Retro Games Hunting In Brisbane

May 28, 2018 By ausretrogamer

The Thrill Of The Chase feels great doesn’t it? That buzz you get never gets old!

A little while ago, we went retro games and vintage hunting in Queensland’s capital, Brisbane, aka: BrisVegas! So what did we find? Well, we found the Woolloongabba Antique Centre & Cafe before it moved and became the Camp Hill Antique Centre.

Luckily Ms Ausretrogamer was on the case (she found this place!), as she dug up and found a heap of gems I would have missed. Rather banging on about it all, we’ll let the photos do the talking. Enjoy!

If you intend on using any of the photos within this feature, please credit them back to this article – thank you.

 

Filed Under: Retro Exploring, Retro Gaming Culture Tagged With: antiques, Atari 2600, Atari VCS, Brisbane, BrisVegas, classic gaming, EM Pinball, Pinball Hunting, Retro Games Hunting, retro hunt, Retro Hunting, retrogaming, retrogaming hunting, SS Pinball, thrill of the chase, Thrill Of the Chase Brisbane, Vintage Store, Woolloongabba Antique Centre

Gone Retro Hunting

February 1, 2017 By ausretrogamer

What does one do on a lazy Sunday afternoon? They go hunting for some old school classic gear at the local vintage market in Brunswick East.

After a few goes on the Daytona USA and Tazmi’s TX-1 arcade machines, we got hunting. So, what did we find you may ask? Take a gander below…

Here we go!

One always starts their hunting by playing some Daytona USA

Then one must take it back a notch to playing the three-screen marvel, TX-1

Wish we could take this one home!

Cockpit is a bit worse for wear, but it’s still functional

Once we exhaust our coins, we get hunting. This is a pretty good start!

Now that is one cool framed movie poster!

The singing budgerigar – with a giant poster inside! Whoa! 

Who you gonna call?

We wonder if we’ll see a The Last Jedi cup in the near future…

Master System games under $15! That is unheard of! *smiles*

Lights, camera, action!

The menacing King Kong Bundy!

Not the VHS tape we were looking for…

Skateboard anyone? Tony Hawk would be proud.

Liberace would’ve loved this phone!

A Fisher Price record player! No way!

Forget the Fisher Price record play, this is what you should play your vinyl on!

Those eyes!!!

Game of Nightmare, anyone?

G.I. Joe! Hang on, Sloth from The Goonies! *mind blown*

Duck Monster? Nah, that’s a P!

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Filed Under: Retro Exploring Tagged With: Daytona USA, GI Joe, King Kong Bundy, lost & found, Lost and Found, Pacman, Puck Monster, Retro Hunting, retrogaming hunting, Tazmi TX-1, TX-1, Vintage Market, vintage toys, vinyl, Wrestling

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