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NEC PC-Engine/SuperGrafx => PC Engine/SuperGrafx Discussion => Topic started by: Sparky on April 06, 2011, 04:01:18 PM
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ya tomorrow a friend of mine is off to Shanghai... asked if he could look for anything for me and i said sure thing :) he has no clue on PCengine games so is there a store with decent prices he would be best to go to to be safe, to look for little old me :)
sorry if Shanghai shopping has been talked about before, as i miss a lot on the PCE side <<blush>>
EDIT: as my topic headings all sound ridiculous with "my friend"
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hmm where's Tokei when you need him!? I don't think you would be able to find much pc engines specific there but they do have alot of portable retrogaming clones...you know one that looks like a DSi but not but it can play basically every retro gaming console out there.....some of them are really well made my cousin even has one that has the entire neo geo library out of the box!
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Yeah wouldn't expect much pce haulies from there. He would have to find specific retro shops somewhere in the suburbs I guess. Unless he has like 8 hours a day spare time spotting such kind of shops, the chances are very little to find anything pce related.
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Does China even have a history of importing/pirating the PC engine ?
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Does China even have a history of importing/pirating the PC engine ?
no I don't think so China in the late 80s and early 90s was still very far behind the rest of the world in terms of tech....the limited number of pirate hueys that came out back in the day were from Taiwan
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oh hells what do i know eh? :P thanks for the input guys i was hoping <<blush>>
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hey guys! Sparky - i've moved from China to Singapore, but here is the "heatmap" of PCE goodies around Asia -
China - forget about it. back in the 80s, this place was suppressed and comminized to the core. people were extremely poor, as such there were zero demand for expensive import games. hence you will not find anything in this country retro. copies PS2 games onwards a plenty, but that's it.
Taiwan - country I grew up in - big time retro markets. Taiwan was somewhat a mini-China back in the 80s, what I mean is how it was booming and flush with cash. there were tons of demand for imported items from Japan... starting with the Famicon. It continued throughout. PCE was hugely popular, and there are a lot of hidden stash these days still... you just have to find them. A lot of game shop owners have been in business a long time there and have put their old PCE stock in warehouses.. if you get lucky you can convince some of them to bring the stock out. I did onetime back in a hunting trip in 99, and ended up with 2 SGX boxed, tons of games, etc. My other trip last year was less fruitful. You will get the best deals away from Taipei, in the southern parts, as those gameshop owners will just gladly sell you their old stock without idea about these games value (as do Taipei gameshop owners will).
Hong Kong - same as Taipei. I'll let RR fill you on that
Japan - nuff said! Tokyo does have shops, but again away from Tokyo tend to be where the bargains can be found, especially middle of no-where Hardoffs!
Singapore - I haven't done enough exploring here yet... i'm hoping it will be similar to Taiwan, but the gov't here was anal and extremely strict back then, so perhaps they were more restrictive on import games... especially all these adult majohng games on the PCE :)
Thailand - I've seen a large manga culture there in old shops, but haven't seen any game shops with old retro stock.
Korea - unknown - only been there 2 times.
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A couple links you might find interesting:
A scan I made of a Taiwanese gaming magazine from 1991. (little PCE stuff, tho...) http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/OTH_1991Q4.html
Hardcore Gaming 101 page on worldwide gaming: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/GOTW/GOTWindex.html
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thanks JapanTokei ... that is a nice region breakdown for gaming goodness :) ...and ccovell some great links... sparky had that genny Mega Disk at one time 8) fuk ya.
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CCovell - awesome site you got there. Do you have scans from the old Taiwan video game magazine? they tend to have tons of gameshop directories, in fact this is what I had used to hunt down the gameshops!!
A couple links you might find interesting:
A scan I made of a Taiwanese gaming magazine from 1991. (little PCE stuff, tho...) http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/OTH_1991Q4.html
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thanks JapanTokei ... that is a nice region breakdown for gaming goodness :) ...and ccovell some great links... sparky had that genny Mega Disk at one time 8) fuk ya.
Sparky why are you talking in third person?
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CCovell - awesome site you got there. Do you have scans from the old Taiwan video game magazine?
Thanks! I have just the one Taiwanese magazine. If there's something specific you're looking for, I can scan it in.
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thanks JapanTokei ... that is a nice region breakdown for gaming goodness :) ...and ccovell some great links... sparky had that genny Mega Disk at one time 8) fuk ya.
Sparky why are you talking in third person?
why are you asking?...dont worry no one took over my account..
just being silly :)