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Japan Game Junk

Information on game shopping in Japan especially with retro gaming. Stories, shop information, and travel! I have over 20 years of experience as a game collecting resident of Japan.

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All Episodes

00:06:36

JGJ episode 149

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/04/02

Get your 100 yen coins and head to Otachu in Hitachi, Ibaraki! I did on March 30, 2025! Lots of 100 yen junk and cheap Super Famicom games! Plus used sneakers and watches or whatever the kids need to feel happy and fulfilled in life.

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00:05:04

JGJ episode 148

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/04/01

It is NOT a Hard Off as I return to the chain that fueled my dreams of gaming over 20 years ago. I wistfully revisited the Naka, Ibaraki branch of WonderGoo on March 30, 2025. The once powerful store now offers a powerful deal on 8bitdo!

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00:12:33

JGJ episode 147

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/03/29

It's a Hard Off! This time I talk about a visit to a the Fujisawa branch of the store in Iruma, Saitama on March 23, 2025. More PC-FX than most stores... IF YOU CAN HANDLE IT

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00:05:27

JGJ episode 146

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/03/29

WHAT? It is not a Hard Off? This time I talk about a visit to a kanteidan store on March 23, 2025. It's the Iruma branch of Guruguru Empire and you can get mint boxed Nintendo games on the cheap! You can also play a ten yen crane game to win gum!

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00:05:55

JGJ episode 145

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/03/27

A new Hard Off was visited on March 23, 2025! It opened just a week earlier in Zama, Kanagawa. It smelled good. Did I decide to find love on the Neo Geo Pocket or give an alligator a hammer to hit things?

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00:02:13

JGJ episode 144

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/03/26

Just a short one describing a March 22, 2025 visit to the Sano, Tochigi branch of Hard Off. A couple of slightly interesting things but honestly it is much better to visit this store for computer stuff rather than game stuff.

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00:06:34

JGJ episode 143

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/03/25

Hello to you, and feel free to listen in on a visit to the Higashi Omiya branch of Hard Off in Saitama city! On March 22, 2025, there was a number of video game related merchandise on offer including a DIAMOND PICKAXE KEYCHAIN FOR ONLY 100 YEN CAN YOU BELIEVE IT I MEAN IT IS AMAZING AND REMINDS YOU OF MINECRAFT

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00:09:34

JGJ episode 142

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/03/18

On March 15 of 2025, the cute little Hard Off branch of Urawa Ota Kubo in Saitama city was visited! Coincidentally many noteworthy items were 3000 yen! Many pro wrestling games were 100 yen in the junk section! And Japanese people in the 90s liked RPGs!

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00:09:03

JGJ episode 141

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/03/09

The last of the fuzzy microphone trilogy, please learn about a fresh Hard Off store in Hidaka, Saitama! On February 3, they had TWO Wondermega systems and a Majima pin with an insulting curse!

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00:06:11

JGJ episode 140

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/03/08

The fuzzy microphone blues continue as I discuss a really interesting Hard Off store. This is the branch in Higashi Yamato city of Tokyo, visited on March 3, 2025! It has lots of little things you don't see elsewhere. Pop n' Pop!

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00:05:35

JGJ episode 139

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/03/07

Sorry for a fuzzy voice as a microphone was tried that will not be used again! This time I talk about a Hard Off store in Koganei, Tokyo, being the Hana Koganei branch visited on March 3, 2025! For those curius, the cheaply bought items not mentioned were Amiibo figures and disc-only Sega Saturn games!

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00:03:59

JGJ episode 137

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/03/01

Have you ever heard of Inagi city? It's in Tokyo! It has a Hard Off! I visited that Yanoguchi branch on February 24 and bought some scary stories for 3DO. Perhaps you want to get some... Coleco? In Japan?

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00:07:22

JGJ episode 136

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/02/27

You WANTED an update on the games available in the Kiso branch of Hard Off in Machida, Tokyo, well, you GET an update on the games available in the Kiso branch of Hard Off in Machida, Tokyo, as visited on February 23, 2025! So many foreign games and Playdia pleasures!

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00:04:56

JGJ episode 135

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/02/26

Have you ever been to the Chuo Rinkan Rinkan Mall (not a typo) branch of Hard Off, located in Yamato, Kanagawa? I have several times, the most recent one being on February 23, 2025! It has so many nude discs, either without manual, or having contents with nudity! Also multiple junk color Super Note Clubs!

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00:06:39

JGJ episode 134

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/02/26

On February 23, 2025, I went to south Kanagawa and visited the Yonnomiya branch of Hard Off in Hiratsuka! So much boxed MSX and a value pack of busted PS2 Slims!

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00:06:51

JGJ episode 133

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/02/18

On February 10th, 2025, I visited the brand new Soka, Saitama branch of Hard Off! It didn't have many good deals! Were you one of the two young foreign women I saw there making some bad purchases?

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00:04:25

JGJ episode 132

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/02/16

It's the Hard Off in Sugito town, Saitama, as visited on the 10th of February, 2025! There were a lot of old people! I bought a Mega Man ripoff sequel of a sequel that was actually released outside Japan!

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00:09:59

JGJ episode 131

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/02/15

Visited on February 10, 2025, it is another visit to the Hard Off store above a Conan home center near the Keiba Funabashi interchange! After owning Breath of the Wild and selling after a week of release, I picked it up again! Also, it has an ugly green MSX mouse!

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00:04:14

JGJ episode 138

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/02/08

From a city where you can see Fuji, maybe you should see some older sealed games! Or boxed Atari games? In Japan? Learn about the stock at the Fujimino store in Saitama as it was on February 24, 2025! You know, if you want.

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00:07:23

JGJ episode 130

Japan Game Junk ·

2025/02/04

On February 3, 2025, I took a return visit to the Ono Hard Off store in Ichikawa, Chiba. I wanted to check on the continued existence of a new Nintendo 64 DD and its existence has continued! You can also meet Marty and get some cheap Mega Driving!

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