Vacation shopping report: FINAL, containing some very important odds and ends. I’m sure I’ll remember some other game-related junk I picked up in Tokyo, but I won’t trouble you with any of it.

Of course I had to get some DS games while in Japan. I actually found the store shelves, with their hundreds of identical-from-the-side, Japanese-language DS games, too intimidating to do any serious shopping; add to that the fact that I couldn’t think of many specific Japanese games I wanted, and my DS pickups were pretty minimal. I was stoked to find a copy of Phantasy Star Zero on a clearance table at Sofmap for 680 yen — the shiny cover alone is worth that much. GCCX2 was used, but in perfect condition, even including a Shinya Arino business card (yessssss).

The Gunstar Heroes Treasure Box, containing every version of Gunstar plus Dynamite Headdy and Alien Soldier (again, yesssss), was also used, and discounted a bit because Mandarake Galaxy said the condition of the disc was “B” grade. It was immaculate. Thanks, super fussy game shop!

Parappa the Rapper was 100 yen at Super Potato. Of course I already have a copy of Parappa, but it wasn’t that one. I don’t want to think about what kind of person could turn down a 100 yen Parappa. And, of course, the disc turned out to be in much better condition than my US copy, and there was a poster packed in! Yay.

The tiny yellow Fire Emblem cart, which came inside that tiny Fire Emblem box, is an eraser. It came out of a capsule machine in Ueno that had not only an assortment of first-party DS game erasers, but little DSi watches as well.

Okay, I think that’s it! I promise the next post won’t be about me.

See also: Things I bought in places