Which US/European items are "rare" in Japan

We all know all the cool stuff to come out of Japan that never gets released abroad, but what forgien stuff is considered rare or collectable inside Japan?

If say I were to go to Japan one day, and I was interested in bringing a few items to sell or trade, what would I want to bring?

I would assume any special edition of a game would problably go for more, and I'm sure there's some stuff that never gets released there.

 

Sega Nomads/CDX sell very well in Japan and Jaguars cost a lot but probably don't sell well. They don't like much else of ours :\ If you wanted to peddle US Wrestling Games that haven't been released in Japan, there are some US import game shops that sell the crap for outrageous prices and maybe you could trade or something.

 

Yeah, bringing games to trade sounds like a good idea.

So is it safe to say that most domestic games get a Japan release?

Also, what about the collectability in Japan of South American items (like the Master system Girl, Brazillian SMS or NES games, tec toy stuff, etc?) I assume those things aren't flying off the shelves in the motherland?

This would be interesting to know, becasue when I go it would be nice to make a little $$$$.

 

There's the problem with Brazillian stuff, though, that they won't work in Japan due to different TV standards. PAL-M support is very uncommon outside South America.

 

Just a question, how big is the Japanese import scene? As big as it is in Europe or North-America, or a lot smaller than that?

 

Allee, ne Belg! Welkom!
(if this doesn't make sense, I guess you're a Walon)

I think the import scene is a lot smaller, though some "normal" gamestores around Tokyo had a few US games, too.

 

Hehe, ik ben weldegelijk afkomstig van het Vlaamse deel van België, hoewel ik geen problemen heb om met Walen te communiceren, of met de 5 Duitstaligen die in de Oostkantons wonen.

Ben ik hier de enige/eerste Belg of?


Anyhow, sorry for interupting this thread with Dutch, do continue.

 

Nou, ik ben half Belg (van moeder's kant) en ik ben regelmatig in Antwerpen en Knokke... over het algemeen zijn games ook nog eens goedkoper en beter te vinden in België, en jullie bier is beter ;-)

I apologize for this OTness.

 

wow like the avatar/picture....... :-D where can i get a pic like that? :smt023

 

Cool, ik kom uit de buurt van Antwerpen en gezien ik familie heb in Nederland kom ik daar ook best vaak. Ik heb de indruk dat je in Nederland goedkoper nieuwe titels kan kopen, toch in bepaalde delen van het land...

Anyhow, I think it would be better to start a seperate thread or something, we don't want to polute this topic, now do we? :smt023

 

I'll send you one as soon as I get a hold of one myself :-(

 

It's one of the very few cosplay pictures I like... Ulala from Space Channel 5. :smt033

Full picture here.

Anyhow, I'll put off my wooden shoes now...

 

He's from belgium assembler not holland so he doesn't have wooden shoes like me or antipasta :smt023

 

Wooden shoes suck, anyway.
instead, Belgians have a "sjakosj" and an "anorak"

 

You mean 'sloefen', 'sleffers' & 'sletsen'...

That's how we would describe wooden shoes/sandals in dialect. :smt042

Mind you, these are no everyday words, I had to think for a few minutes before I came up with them. ;p

 

ah, thanks for clearing that up (I knew no Flemish dialect for shoes so I used some other words from my memory like "sjakosj" which I think means purse) :smt043

 

Just remember those words are more like synonyms of sandals than shoes. You'd best use shoes to avoid any weird looking faces too.


I know Akihabara is tax free, are stores in Osaka too?