Cool Stuff From Japan

I've already been posing used game pictures in the Off House Tape Fetish thread, but I come across things that aren't at Off House that some might think is cool... so here you go. As seen at Aeon Mall, Saitama.

Super Mario Converse in the wild


Super Awesome Mega Drive Business Card Holder


Less Super But Still Neat Playstation Business Card Holder


An Official Hudson Bomberman Bank


I'll post more as I see 'um. Hey you other guys, you can post too! It's the internet! Woooooohooooo!

 

I have one of those Mega Drive card case things. I'm sure I bought it from Sega Direct around the time they changed the name from Dreamcast Direct.

Yakumo

 

I like the village vanguard chain. Always funny stuff to find there.

 

Do they have other business card holders? The Mega Drive one is cool, but something really niche would be nice. Although I doubt that there would be a run on an FM Towns Marty or Cassette Super Vision holder

 

I want a PC Engine holder. Either there side by side or a duo system.

 

There are no NEC related ones. But some other like from Namco with pac man, galaxian etc. theme, and oc course the Nintendo Famicom ones.

 

I've seen all of those. Come on NEC... time to market to the retro crowd! Where's my PC Engine 2????

 

Yeah, NEC/Hudson never really drove on that merchandize train, whilst there are tons of (console-)goods (keychains, meishi holder, purse, rucksacks, cushions and the devil knows what else..) from the Nintendo and Sega front.

 

Nah, NEC just made a million versions of the PC Engine I think Hudson did whore a lot with Bomberman though.

Yakumo

 

Yeah, there is indeed a lot of bomberman and other hudson character stuff around, but no miniature PC Engines etc. as a keychain etc.
Sure the PC Engine itself is already that small that you almost could used it as a keychain

Some shops selling punched (non-working) hucards as keychains. Sure something that I already did in the early 90s

 

A punched Youkaidouchuuki or Power League Gold would make a nice decadent keychain. Just on par with a blood diamond or a white tiger's tooth.

 

Sure would be one nice item to pose with on the schoolyard etc. :lol:

 

The girls would be all after you for sure.

 

Some great generic 8-bit stickers. No plumbers here, no ice climbing... nothing to see here, move along, move along...






It' funny that upon further inspection of the Mario shoes, Luigi got regulated to the insert, so you're walking on him. He's always getting the raw end of the stick. Mario should watch his back...



Found the Puyo Puyo booth at the local matsuri... what's funny is that they didn't really have puyos, they had colorful round gems that vaguely could have been called puyos (but they lacked eyes). People kept exclaiming "Puyo Puyo!" and running over and then walking away disappointed when they didn't actually have any puyo anything. Say three couples do this.



And finally, saw this and it made me think of the brits on the board. No idea what they're getting at here.

 

Maybe because the Union Jack is Red as opposed to Pink??

 

The right hand side of it should have the red stripes moved, the union jack is has a pinwheel effect, so that the right top should be white, red, red, white, white and the bottom right should be white, white, red, red, white. Bloody foreigners, don't know a British flag if they see it [/daily mail reader]

 

I love the card holders. They show right away what is your hobby with your business partners ahah.

 

Sony's new, lower priced PSPs.



Cool transformers that change from kanji into whatever the kanji they are means. So the Sakana kanji transforms into a fish because sakana means fish.

 

Those chucks look freakin beast.