A Japanese YouTuber / game collector visits the warehouse of Yamatoku-Classic, a large retro game shop:
Yamatoku-Classic stopped selling via their eBay store Retro Video Game Yamatoku-Classic | eBay Stores soon after the pandemic started. Their parent corporation https://yamatoku-group.jp/ , which sells all kinds of things, appears to be active on Yahoo-Japan, but their retro game unit seems to have gone a different way, branded currently as “RetroG” and having a very elaborate online storefront for buying AND selling retro games within Japan: https://kaitori-retrog.jp/
Anyway I thought it was interesting to see what a Japanese collector is looking for in a giant retro game shop. He’s doing a little acting and plugging of the store itself (he finds something that he just says immediately is the most valuable item in the store, so he’s had detailed information ahead of time on stuff, for instance).
In this video, he just refers to his apartment as being much less organized than the warehouse. ; ) I saw what I figured was part of his apartment in his most popular video, where, after picking it up at a store, applauded by the store clerks, he’s unboxing a 1,500,00 Yen mystery bag (coincidentally enough, that video now has 1.5M views!), surrounded by stacks of boxes stretching up out of sight.
Even this video is hard to watch with that context, because of how often he says “Who would sell this” and knowing that he is probably psychologically blocked from selling anything he owns.
That said it is interesting to see Yamatoku’s operation. I didn’t know it was this big, but I should have known based on how many listings they put out. probably 80% of my Gundam game collection came from their store. I should see if I can get buyee to interface with this new store.
I also watched this and I it made me sort of mad when he took the cartoony-looking windows on a big office building and turned them into “photorealistic” reflective surfaces
Like motherfucker it’s The Simpsons don’t make the glass textures realistic.
Just went through the first third of Injustice 2’s Story mode myself and yeah, the similarity in the SNES version of Justice League Task Force jumps out immediately: the Aquaman stage, the way flying characters levitate upright…you’d swear the designers at NetherRealm were looking right at the old Blizzard(/Sunsoft? how exactly did that work?) game.
Not the Genesis one, though; no similar vibe there at all. Funny the way little things add up or don’t.
Edit: While I’m on the subject of knock-offs of game I kinda like, I’ll just jam this in here because oh man I had this game and I’d totally forgotten about it, it was bad–but still probably the best fighting game on the Amiga haha oh dear
Because honestly actually playing this seems like it would be pretty dull. Nice graphics though. I wonder if this would have made a cool VR game (or maybe a Wii game with wiimote controls) if you did it from a first-person perspective and limited the movement.
I see everyone already knows about this one but I scrupulously avoided horror stuff and had always assumed from the name this would be dark rather than colorful. And that music really goes!
