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Giant Love Plus girls offer presents in front of a 7-Eleven in Akihabara. This launch event allowed users of the Love Plus smartphone app or the 3DS Love Plus Tools game to see a gigantic AR version of their favorite girl.
In honor of the new game, Love Plus also invaded other worlds — like the PSP game Frontier Gate. Players can download Love Plus-themed costume DLC now.
Import: Love Plus+, New Love Plus Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more See also: More Love Plus poststags / frontier gate / gaming / imports / jc / love plus / new love plus / nintendo 3ds / 3ds / 7-eleven / akihabara
Wall of Game Boy cartridges at an Akihabara shop, taken by Mhiguera (click for a larger image). I wish there was a site dedicated to cartridge art that I could browse though…
Import: Game Boy games
Find: Nintendo DS/3DS release dates, discounts, & more
See also: More Game Boy posts
[Via Mhiguera]
tags / game boy / imports / akihabara / gaming / ec
Super Mario Bros. 25th anniversary ad at Akihabara Station, captured by Jeremy Parish. You can see a closer shot of the advertisement in IGN’s collection of Mario photos from Tokyo (clicking the image will bring you to a great high res version of the poster).
It’s a perfect print complement to the sentimental 25th anniversary commercial featured here yesterday.
Preorder import: Super Mario Collection Special Pack Buy: New Super Mario Bros (Wii & DS) See also: Packaging for Super Mario Collection
[Via Retronauts]
tags / akihabara / tokyo / super mario bros / jeremy parish / ec
Nintendo will preview Metroid: Other M at Akihabara’s Yodobashi Camera on July 31. And this is the image it chose to advertise that, and the game, with. Someone decided that the key visual for this particular ad campaign would be a big old thumbs down.
Nintendo had better hope the game is good, or this display is going to be really funny.
Buy: Metroid: Other M (and get a $20 credit!)
[Via Inside-Games]
tags / metroid / metroid other m / akihabara / jc
Street vendor selling DS flashcarts in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. He used to have a folding table to set up and sell his wares, but now he carries around the “illegal game copiers” like they’re lunches, presented on a portable shelf slung around his neck. He even has a jingle he sings to entice passerbys and would-be pirates.
He has sold flashcarts in this spot, right next to electronics store T-Zone, for six months, I believe. Cops questioned him about his activities several months ago, but that hasn’t deterred him from peddling the devices.
Here’s what his selection looks like:
This is what happens when you close stores, vending machines, and online shops for selling flashcarts; sellers take to the streets! They’re persistent like that.
Buy: Nintendo DSi XL (Burgundy and Bronze), Standard Nintendo DSi (White, Pink, Black and Blue)
See also: Flashcarts: More than ‘illegal game copiers’
[Via Akibablog]
tags / flashcart / akihabara / piracy / ec
Claw game filled with Famicom carts, spotted in Akihabara by David Rutledge. Only ¥100 (around $1.10) to play! You could probably find many of these same carts in the bargain bins of Akihabara’s game shops for around the same price, but this looks way more fun!
See also: “Pinchbot” WarioWare D.I.Y. microgame, Tons of Famicom stuff we’ve posted here
[Via David Rutledge, NES things]
tags / famicom / ufo catcher / akihabara / imports / ecWooden “Cybuster” statue from Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masou Kishin: The Lord of Elemental, outside of Messe Sanoh in Akihabara.
The wooden statue, which will be on display through June 6, was carved by “Jason-san,” an otaku artist who uses a chainsaw to carve game and anime characters while wearing a hockey mask. Here he is working on the Cybuster:
Import: Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masou Kishin: The Lord of Elemental
tags / jason-san / super robot wars / jc / namco bandai / akihabara
Wall of Famicom games at Akihabara’s Super Potato (click for larger image). Something you’ll see in some Japanese game shops — judging by photos I’ve come across, at least — but not in U.S. stores are these adorable signs handmade by employees. Why don’t we have rad stuff like this?
They’re more than just ads for the shop’s wares; they offer context for the titles or ask unlikely questions that compel you to buy the game for answers. Wouldn’t visiting your local GameStop feel more fulfilling if you could read signs like these and learn something new about these games (beyond what’s printed on the back of their boxes)?
Wouldn’t game shops seem more welcoming and less depressing with fanart of Mega Man’s Robot Masters decorating the shelves? I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything as cute as this television’s Zangief sticker in any Western game store (I love the Guile and Sagat signs, too!):
See also: Stylus sale at a South Korean shop
[Via Rob Sheridan]
tags / super potato / famicom / signs / akihabara / imports / ecChris Kohler goes inside Akihabara game stores for GameLife. It’s always cool to see inside stores like Super Potato (which I already miss) and get a look at the Super Mario World golf shoes.
I didn’t know about the DQIX-playing crowd outside Yodobashi Camera! I might have awkwardly pushed through that after TGS and been totally oblivious.
tags / akihabara / dragon quest ix / gamelife / jc
Composers Yasunori Mitsuda and Nobuyoshi Sano hawking Korg DS-10 Plus outside of a Sofmap store in Akihabara. Chris Kohler’s account of the event reminded me of our dear departed Akibablog, but well-written.
So what can you do with DS-10 Plus? You can rock the fuck out of the Cheetahmen theme, that’s what.
I’ll be in Tokyo for a couple of weeks starting tomorrow (well, actually I’ll be on an airplane for most of tomorrow). That means that the site will be solely in Eric’s capable hands for a while. It’ll be like normal TC, except with just the really good posts. I’ll try to post when I can, but between covering Tokyo Game Show for Joystiq and cramming as much sightseeing as possible into the time afterward, who knows when I’ll be around to link to Muramasa fanart and inconsequential discounts.
Import: KORG DS-10 Plus
tags / korg ds-10 plus / cheetahmen / akihabara / aq interactive / jcRetronauts “Bonus Stage” special, filmed in Akihabara’s Super Potato last year. Since I’m watching this video and the Mandarake Galaxy video posted below over and over again, trying to hone my mental map of Tokyo’s retrogaming stores in preparation for my own trip next week, I thought I would post them here and let you all do the same. Or learn neat things about video games and Akihabara from Parish, Kohler, et al.
Also you get to see people eating canned bread. So yeah.
tags / retronauts / akihabara / bonus stage / jc
Preorder ticket stand for DS dating sim Love Plus.
Spotted at Sofmap Main Branch in Akihabara, the Japanese text on this racy preorder sign reads as follows:
“DS: Love Plus
You may be shy to take tickets from here
In order to make preorders, you need to put your hand in here and take [a ticket]… Shameful… But… Make preorders, make preorders!”
Preorder import (without shame): Love Plus
See also: Love Plus trailer, ‘Not Wearing’ Goddess
[Via Akibablog]
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