{"id":36474,"date":"2025-01-19T12:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T12:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/arcade-game\/japan-arcades-gaming-recent-pick-ups\/"},"modified":"2025-01-19T12:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T12:07:04","slug":"japan-arcades-gaming-recent-pick-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=36474","title":{"rendered":"JAPAN, ARCADES &#038; GAMING: Recent Pick Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-6356691032766372169\" itemprop=\"description articleBody\">\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #444444;\"><span style=\"color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">These are my pick ups from the last few months.<\/span><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">As much as I\u2019ve tried to resist buying games for current gen systems, I find myself caving in more in more, especially with these cool limited editions.<\/span><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">First up is this really nice collection of Switch games, plus a new Megadrive game.<\/span><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">They are all from Japan, except for Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51187782190_7d0ec7df29.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"375\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51187782190_7d0ec7df29.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #444444; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">The Capcom Belt Action Collection is the e-Capcom Limited Edition.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I love my scrolling fighters, and this is an awesome collection of some of the best ever.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The package includes postcards of the original arcade instructions, B2 posters for each title and player select screen cards.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The CP System II kit box contains a hardback book featuring artwork from the games, plus CD soundtracks.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I passed on this collection at first as I own most of the titles on other formats.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>However it really is fantastic, beautifully presented and is a must for Capcom fans.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The only slight grumble is the absence of one of my all time favourites, Alien vs. Predator.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I\u2019m guessing it wasn\u2019t included due to licensing issues.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51186930638_7ca1ffc2c4.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"375\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51186930638_7ca1ffc2c4.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #444444; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection is from Limited Run Games.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51186016952_58284e9fbb.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"375\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51186016952_58284e9fbb.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #444444; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">I wanted this as it includes Samurai Shodown V Perfect, the \u2018lost\u2019 version of Samurai Shodown V Special,\u00a0<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">which only had a very brief location test in Japan.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The story goes that SNK Playmore was never informed about this new version until the day it was on location test.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It had only been on test for a couple of hours until people from the company arrived and seized the game.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>It comes in a nice reproduction MVS box under the slip cover.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">The rest of the titles are all shooters!<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>We have<\/span><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">the following:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #444444; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #444444; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">Aleste Collection Game Gear Micro Edition \u2013 this is an awesome compilation of Sega 8-bit Aleste titles, featuring Aleste \/ Power Strike, GG Aleste, GG Aleste 2 \/ Power Strike II, Power Strike II (SMS) and perhaps most interesting of all, GG Aleste 3.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>This is a brand new shooter created by M2, along with some former Compile staff, developed for the specs of the Game Gear.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Also included in this limited edition package is a white Game Gear Micro, featuring all the games in the compilation, a Big Window screen magnifier and an Aleste history book.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #444444; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #444444; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">Darius Cozmic Revelation Special Edition \u2018Beep Store\u2019 \u2013 another awesome Darius compilation, packaged in a Taito FX-1 reproduction kit box, so cool!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #444444; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #444444; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">Cotton Reboot Limited Edition \u2018Beep Store\u2019 \u2013 I\u2019ve enjoyed the Cotton games on the Super Famicom, PS1 as well as the original arcade release.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I picked up the board on a Raid a couple of years ago, which was an awesome surprise as I\u2019d never seen the game in the arcades over here.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The package includes a teacup featuring illustration by Hideki Tamura, soundtrack CD and a reprint of the 1991 PCB arts, pop and instructions, which is pretty cool.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Darius Extra Version &#8211; a brand new Megadrive game and an awesome conversion of the arcade classic.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">Next up we have even more shooters!<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51187781465_569b848037.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"375\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51187781465_569b848037.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">I\u2019m really pleased to get Ibara again after slimming down the collection and selling it a couple of years ago.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I already have the PCB, but its absence left a gaping hole in my Cave PS2 collection.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">I\u2019m also looking forward to playing Raiden IV x Mikado Remix Limited Edition.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I\u2019m a big fan of the early Raiden games as well as the later Raiden Fighters series.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Somehow Raiden IV passed me by completely.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It\u2019s the Mikado connection which really piqued my interest, with a new soundtrack produced by Game Centre Mikado.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>One of the bands that features on the new soundtrack is Heavy Metal Raiden.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The band performs heavy metal covers of Raiden tunes and was formed by Ikeda, the manager of Mikado.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The limited addition includes additional game box inserts and a soundtrack CD.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>If the illustrations look familiar it\u2019s because they\u2019re drawn by Rensuke Ohikiri, of High Score Girl fame.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">The glass and coasters are from a Cave event held at Tokyo Video Gamers Bar in Akihabara.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51187490834_80ef4a704a.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"375\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51187490834_80ef4a704a.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">Now for something which you certainly don\u2019t see very often.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Here we have a Sunset Riders shelf display.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51186015547_b4f5c29cf0.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"375\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51186015547_b4f5c29cf0.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">I love Sunset Riders.<\/span><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">The Megadrive conversion was never released in Japan, and it was one of the main reasons I started picking up Pal games.<\/span><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">This would have been sent out to video game stores back in the day and maybe Woolies to promote the Megadrive game.<\/span><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">The seller says that these were a surprise warehouse find when he was sorting through some vintage <\/span>magazine<span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">\u00a0stock.<\/span><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">They have never been used, and I think he found three.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">My next pick up is from my local retro game shop in Norwich, Last Level Games.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It\u2019s a fantastic little shop and great to visit again following the easing of government restrictions.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51187490204_8355a27204.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"375\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51187490204_8355a27204.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">Here are some pics of the shop.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51186712241_c198b95e03.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"375\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51186712241_c198b95e03.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51187781320_374125073a.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"375\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51187781320_374125073a.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51187781865_761c8a3dde.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"375\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51187781865_761c8a3dde.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51187781760_a4cb87cbe0.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"375\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51187781760_a4cb87cbe0.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51187781670_cdf9af6e58.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"375\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51187781670_cdf9af6e58.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background: rgb(68, 68, 68); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"color: white; font-family: arial;\">I grabbed this lovely blue Game Gear, complete with McWill LCD.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51186712111_0e9b2e15dc.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"375\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51186712111_0e9b2e15dc.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">The screen looks so good.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Normally I\u2019m all about keeping things original, but this upgrade makes it so much better to play.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I never had one back in the day, so it\u2019s a brand new console for me.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>In fact the only handheld I had was the Neo Geo Pocket, which I should never have parted with, but that\u2019s another story!<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I\u2019ve wanted one of these for a while and seeing as it was my birthday, I thought I\u2019d treat myself.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I also picked up several loose carts, including\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Alien<sup style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;\">3,\u00a0<\/sup><span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Klax, Super Space Invaders and Wonder Boy.<span style=\"-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I think I\u2019m going to stick to boxed Japanese GG games (I already had Mappy and OutRun) and loose UK carts.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are my pick ups from the last few months.\u00a0\u00a0As much as I\u2019ve tried to resist buying games for current gen systems, I find myself caving in more in more, especially with these cool limited editions.\u00a0\u00a0First up is this really nice collection of Switch games, plus a new Megadrive game.\u00a0\u00a0They are all from Japan, except [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12042],"tags":[16469,743,1798,3140,6919],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-36474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arcade-game","tag-arcades","tag-gaming","tag-japan","tag-pick","tag-ups"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>JAPAN, ARCADES &amp; 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