Or 40 Famicoms? Or 20 Nintendo 64′s? 100 N64 controllers, maybe? Or how about 100 Super Famicoms, with 400 controllers and a random selection of 2000 loose SFC carts to go with it? (Presumably there are a lot of Romancing SaGas and Super Mario Worlds in that pile.)

All this and more is up on Yahoo! Auctions over in Japan at the moment from a seller based in Osaka, presumably either the owner of a used-game shop that went out of business or the repo man who wound up inheriting all of his inventory.

There was a time when the seller’s collection of 20 Famicom network adapters was worth its weight in gold in the Japanese collectors’ market, but a combination of warehouse finds and a general price depression in 8-bit games has lowered the price a great deal. It’s sort of like how the NES market is right now — a few titles are worth tons, but the majority is no more than a few hundred yen or so each.

Amusingly, he has only eight Mega Drives available in his vast flog-off, and there’s no Saturn or Dreamcast stuff whatsoever. Nintendo stuff has a tendency to clog up used-game shop shelves, I suppose.

Professional violinist and music teacher Teppei Okada claims on his webpage profile that he can play any piece of video-game music by ear after one listen. He’s recently started demonstrating this talent on Nicovideo and YouTube, and it’s a remarkably impressive sight even before he starts playing sound effects alongside the music.

There’s a selection of small performances available on YouTube, including recitals for Donkey Kong, Tennis, Dragon Quest, Star Force and a few others.

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397 2010/05/03 22:41:38 ID:K1SKseTM0
I’ve completed the whole run of games released in Japan. The shelf is completely full at this point; I can’t put anything else in here. It’s packed full even after removing all of the import games, so I’ll probably push the Xbox 1 titles toward the back now that Live is offline.

398 2010/05/03 22:42:12 ID:2+yaoiQJ0
>>397
How much do you think you’d get if you sold it all at once?

399 2010/05/03 22:42:48 ID:ciCcU/1q0
>>397
Amazing as always…
I could maybe fill a single shelf with mine

412 2010/05/03 22:44:29 ID:1ksRAum50
>>397
I have about 80 of them, but a whole set would make me way too much of a perv…

425 2010/05/03 22:47:27 ID:/SSX9NM40
>>397
Wow. You have a better selection than the game shops!

413 2010/05/03(月) 22:44:37 ID:Y8b7DOr00
>>397
I’d be interested in knowing whether you bought all these as they were released or completed the collection afterward. Metal Wolf Chaos is one thing, but stuff like Fatal Frame was going for around 30,000 yen at one point, wasn’t it?

420 2010/05/03 22:46:40 ID:K1SKseTM0
>>413
I don’t actively collect Xbox 1 games, so most of those I bought when they came out, though some of them I waited until they got cheap in the used marketplace — Sneakers, for example.

484 2010/05/03 22:57:40 ID:Y8b7DOr00
>>459
By the way, how many of these games have you actually beaten?

494 2010/05/03 22:59:47 ID:K1SKseTM0
>>484
I didn’t count them so I don’t know.
I do beat most of the games I play. (I don’t bother with completing achievements too much)

By the way, my achievement score is a little under 40,000, so I’m pretty much a straight-on collector at this point, so, yeah.

549 2010/05/03 23:08:07 ID:Y8b7DOr00
>>494
Nah, nah, 40,000 is still pretty impressive…
The problem is, I bet that with this library, half of that score comes from playing gal-games…

585 2010/05/03 23:13:53 ID:K1SKseTM0
>>549
I don’t care for gal-games for the most part. The only one I’ve played is Steins;Gate; that was really awesome. For whatever reason, though, I can’t get myself to care about any of the others, including Chaos;Head.

Mojipittan, released first to arcades in 2001 and still going strong on the Wii, PSP and DS today, is a unique word game that takes advantage of the Japanese language’s complex writing system. Each level in the game consists of a tile grid, a row of kana tiles on the left, and a given goal — make 20 words, fill in all the squares with valid words, make the word “I love you” eight times on a board shaped like a giant heart, etc. — to complete before time runs out. Since many Japanese words can be made with as few as one or two kana, the game has a nice, easy learning curve, allowing Japanese students of nearly any level to complete at least a smattering of puzzles.

I bring this up because there was some commentary on Japanese blogs yesterday over the recent departure of Takashi Nakamura from Namco Bandai Games. He’s the most well-known among the 168 NBGI employees who accepted severance packages this month from the company, which is trying to shed 10 percent of its workforce following major losses.

Nakamura’s main contribution to game-dom was producing the Mojipittan series, but he didn’t design it — that honor goes to Hiroyuki Gotō, a rather odd guy who broke the Guinness world record for reciting digits of pi by memory in early 1995:

“The Hanshin earthquake happened in January 1995, but I was holed up in my house right up to the day I had my second try [at the record]; I didn’t allow myself any kind of outside stimulation, so I had no idea such a huge earthquake had taken place. I didn’t have any sort of diversion during that time; all I did was concentrate on memorizing numbers. I wound up having to extend college another year because I couldn’t go to class for most of that time. I got an academic award from my college after I broke the record, though. Usually they’d give those out for some kind of serious academic achievement, but they kind of made a special exception for me.”

It takes a man with that sort of — let’s go right out and say it — OCD-ness to write a game like Mojipittan, which includes a massive dictionary of Japanese words with meanings. “I spent every night at the office staring at these huge dictionaries,” he said in the above interview, “so seeing the game get released was all the more special for me.”

Even if you know zero Japanese, you gotta like the cutesy paint job Namco’s artists did with the game, eh?

1 2010/01/12 18:40:23.72 ID:2oLm8F690

I’m gonna be quitting my job at the end of the month.
I got no savings and no gig next, but I wanna take some time off anyway.
Probably going right back to eroge, but…

7 2010/01/12 18:43:04.87 ID:sqeFXSaR0

What was your job?

Director, planner, that sort of thing.

9 2010/01/12 18:43:31.40 ID:VwTpnoC00

How much did you get?

About 200,000 yen/month after taxes. Maybe a little more, maybe a little less.

10 2010/01/12 18:43:44.87 ID:JUtwD+2d0

Royalties?

No, just a set monthly salary.

14 2010/01/12 18:45:41.63 ID:5dr8m2+30

Did you live entirely off of eroge?

Not originally, but it’s been nothing but eroge for the past few years.

15 2010/01/12 18:46:32.25 ID:4X7i+AQ90

>>1

You gonna go freelance? Or to some other company? I did the former, but…

I dunno about going freelance… If you’re gonna do directing full-time then you better be able to write stories too, so I think that’s pretty tough right now.

16 2010/01/12 18:47:33.52 ID:bCUM9XdZ0

How many copies do you have to sell to make it back?
How many copies did your stuff sell?

Depends. If you got online distribution then some projects sell as low as 100-200 copies; with some projects you’d consider it nice if you got up to 1500. Really big-name titles and things like salaries and long-term costs come into play so estimating it is difficult, but somewhere between 3000 and 5000 copies is the norm. Some games sell beyond that, of course.

42 2010/01/12 19:06:39.47 ID:FQy8a1Wc0

5000 copies can’t be enough to make your money back on large titles, is it? Was your company pretty small?

I meant 30k-50k. I can’t tell you about the size of the company, sorry.

37 2010/01/12 19:02:39.77 ID:rT9r/MgM0

How’s employment work? I was kind of curious. I don’t have any real skill so I guess I’d be in sales.

You mean how easy is it to get a job? If you aren’t in development (concepts, story, art, music) then I guess it comes down to how nice you are and how hard you work. Sales departments do everything — They know how to make games sell, how to make users pick them up, sales strategies, etc. PR gets involved in it, too, and it’s kind of a unique industry. Experience doesn’t matter as much as how capable you are of reading user trends and staying one step ahead.

43 2010/01/12 19:06:54.88 ID:/T41pJk10

How much do voice actors get?

That also depends a lot. If they’re famous outside the industry, some actresses can take over 1 million yen when you add in the costs of reserving their time. With new girls, sometimes they work for all but free because you negotiate it that way with agency in exchange for getting a veteran actress at a discount.

72 2010/01/12 19:32:58.33 ID:/T41pJk10

What was the hardest part?

When I help with checking the voices and had to listen to dozens, hundreds of moaning voices in one go. I had trouble following the script after a while and I started hearing moaning wherever I went. Lying down in bed and hearing “ahh, ahhhhh” in your mind is tough.

Buy the limited-edition box set (on Amazon Japan) for eroge-maker Willow Soft’s Okāsan ga Ippai!! (which means something like “Moms All Over the Place!!”), and in addition to the standard artbook, you will also get a sex toy modeled after the pocketbooks of one of the game’s seven heroines. I think this is a first.

You also get a CD with tracks of each girl groaning, which you’re meant to tune to accordingly based on whose silicone minge you’re involved with at the moment.

The game comes out Christmas Day, of course.

Click onward to see exactly what you’re getting (work safe, more or less).

Okāsan ga Ippai!! stars Kazuki, a regular guy who recently lost both of his parents. Kazuki apparently had a really cool grandpa, because when he died, he not only willed Kazuki a fortune in cash — he also sent him seven “mother candidates,” from a famous movie star to a nun from overseas, and Kazuki must choose which elder lady will serve as the nucleus of his new family. There is also a lot of kinky sex.

Here’s Kozue Namba, a doctor with a penchant for laziness.

- Different feel in each section
- Not too tight, but just rigid enough to help you feel the shape
- Your head is stimulated in the deepest end

Kozue is apparently running Dracula’s Funhouse of Horrors down there.

Niina Nakao, a 30-year-old (according to Willow, who must’ve hired the Iraqi Information Minister to write these character descriptions), looks a little kinder. Her bio states that an assortment of health problems prevented her body from developing normally, but she serves as the “moodmaker” among the seven girls nonetheless.

I feel like I’m going to hell just for translating this, but:

- Tight and virgin-like from the entrance
- Strong grip throughout
- The deepest end gives you gentle love

…:’(

The deluxe package costs only 7652 yen on Amazon, less than the 10,500 yen Final Fantasy XIII’s limited-edition runs Japanese gamers. I’m pretty sure Square Enix didn’t go quite this deep with their game’s character backstories, however.

(Via Jin)

1 ：2009/10/24(土) 09:29:40.25 ID:ZbYgLYgS0
Besides being stuck in stones and only The Chosen One can pull it out, please.

15 ：2009/10/24(土) 09:33:46.73 ID:L3+9DZHPO
Sparkly

19 ：2009/10/24(土) 09:35:25.65 ID:peU8BuTGO
Bouncing around the elf village

21 ：2009/10/24(土) 09:36:12.91 ID:thLQuWCN0
Passed down over generations

25 ：2009/10/24(土) 09:40:10.59 ID:1lBxmTOZO
Made by dwarves

26 ：2009/10/24(土) 09:41:15.73 ID:8ndyR8PM0
Either really thick or really long

29 ：2009/10/24(土) 09:43:54.45 ID:hTxwVJWq0
The old guy near it is really surprised when you touch it without being shocked/blown away

39 ：2009/10/24(土) 09:45:58.05 ID:+caNLnvIO
Doesn’t look sharp

41 ：2009/10/24(土) 09:47:02.24 ID:hTxwVJWq0
Disappears after you plunge it into the final boss for the last time

45 ：2009/10/24(土) 09:51:36.35 ID:NlmVjI8i0
All rusty at first

48 ：2009/10/24(土) 09:54:07.01 ID:xVHA9OX8O
If you can sell it it’s either worth a ton of money or 1 Gil

55 ：2009/10/24(土) 09:58:54.25 ID:pTlbCYigO
Usually about the 3rd strongest by the end

59 ：2009/10/24(土) 10:04:24.90 ID:/kE0FSIq0
Based on the Holy or Light element so it’s hard to use

70 ：2009/10/24(土) 10:17:03.87 ID:oko8Efuq0
There’s an evil sword that goes with it

72 ：2009/10/24(土) 10:20:46.04 ID:NJZrzPWh0
If a villain steals it from its owner he usually bursts into flames or something like that

87 ：2009/10/24(土) 10:32:28.58 ID:RMf1mtf6O
Fires beams

97 ：2009/10/24(土) 10:41:34.50 ID:l5iyqfrz0
Nobody really knows anything about the legend behind the sword

Old man “Ahhh, the legendary sword!!!”
Hero “Uh, great”

132 ：2009/10/24(土) 11:26:42.99 ID:6OVYMpmr0
Talks

141 ：2009/10/24(土) 11:36:25.76 ID:h4EWnKLMO
Capable of killing things in one swipe during cutscenes only

1. Game system rental (1000 yen for 30 minutes)
   Systems: Wii, PS3, PSP, Xbox, DS — you can bring your own games
2. Share a tender moment watching a DVD with her. You can bring your own DVD (1000 yen for 30 minutes)
3. Mini-games (800 yen for 20 minutes) — cards, The Game of Life, etc
4. I’d be happy to massage your hands (1200 yen for 20 minutes)
5. Ear cleaning while you rest your head in her lap (1500 yen for 20 minutes, 3000 yen for 40 minutes)
6. A Tsundere/deredere slap (1000 yen for a “round trip”)
7. Off to dreamland as I read a storybook (1000 yen for 20 minutes)
8. A memorial photo of the two of us (1500 yen per)
9. Handmade sweets, filled with love (2000 yen; message card included next time)
10. Get a hold of my feelings with this love letter (1000 yen per letter)
11. Read my [mobile] mail! (photo + message: 500 yen, 3 for 1200 yen)
12. You’re looking at meeee! ([mobile phone] movie, 1000 yen, 3 for 2500 yen)
13. This is who I am! (Bromide photo, 300 yen each)
14. Let’s trade presents! (reservations required; 1500 yen)

Some girls may not be able to engage in all forms of play. Please tell us about your own games.”

Usually maid cafes take measures to keep the creepiest clients away from premises, but Cute Room — opening up in Akihabara October 4 — seems to be taking the opposite approach.

The “spa-for-the-brain and relaxation shop” gives you a choice of room themes and costume for your lady companion to wear as she hangs out with you. It costs 4000 yen for 40 minutes, 5500 yen for an hour, or 7500 yen for 80 minutes; the list of “play” activities above are all options. As the website puts it, the environment allows you to enjoy a “2.7D world,” one that’s just a little bit closer to the one guests see in wacky anime love comedies.

What would you do with a girl for 40 to 80 minutes after paying for her company? Well, I can think of a few things, but in Cute Room you’ll be playing games, watching DVDs, getting massages of assorted sorts, and so on — assuming you’ve got the cash. That and you can get slapped if you’re into that Haruhi Suzumiya stuff. Presumably you could experience all of the above if you had a real girlfriend, but if you’re contemplating a visit to Cute Room, you probably don’t have a girlfriend, do you?

If you’re sticking around Tokyo post-TGS for a little sightseeing, come to the grand opening event on October 3 (Saturday), where they’ll let 30 guests in for a sneak-preview look at what 2.7D looks like in action.

The 2ch response:

3 ： 2009/09/24 18:10:25.98 ID:Rg9/0iSX
I’ll pay 1500 yen if I can slap her

4 ： 2009/09/24 18:10:52.26 ID:+4oOEBWT
I’ll go up to 2000 yen if I get to punch her back

27 ： 2009/09/24 18:12:45.66 ID:PywMLfrV
I get to say where she slaps me, right?

106 ： 2009/09/24 18:18:02.40 ID:DJ9eUHjV
I’d happily pay 1000 yen per half-hour for someone willing to play me in Armored Core.

157 ： 2009/09/24 18:23:38.66 ID:SqIXifez
1000 yen for half an hour is pretty cheap for getting to play with a girl. I better go load up my Steel Battalion set into my car now.

196 ： 2009/09/24 18:28:52.24 ID:aOOVP5pH
If I paid 50,000 yen, could I get her to slap me 50 times in a row?

332 ： 2009/09/24 18:52:31.01 ID:FhW/Nb7I
Who gives a crap about getting slapped?
I want it to be like, I accidentally touch her boobs or look at her panties or the wind blows her skirt up or something, and then I desperately defend myself saying “No, no, I can explain!” and then, embarrassed and angry, she says “What are you doing, you pervert!!” and punches me. If it’s just some expressionless girl slapping me and holding out her palm for 1000 yen, that’s stupid.

677 ： 2009/09/24 21:31:59.42 ID:l6r9Eu0u
Where is Akihabara going?

1 :2009/02/14 01:57:46.39 ID:Ki6Q4itCP
The pangs of panic when the batteries were about to run out

2 :2009/02/14 01:58:14.30 ID:wrXORepw0
Batteries actually being expensive

3 :2009/02/14 01:58:40.09 ID:TFpAPIOhO
Mysterious black lines

6 :2009/02/14 01:59:48.12 ID:jw3c9P9Z0
Heavy

8 :2009/02/14 01:59:53.10 ID:WRt6PdCG0
It was so big, if I played it while lying down it hurt my shoulders

9 :2009/02/14 01:59:56.87 ID:hGqvHcJw0
The feeling of superiority I had when I got an AC adapter

11 :2009/02/14 02:00:15.89 ID:YR87kjBm0
Green screen

12 :2009/02/14 02:00:17.11 ID:4uPbrV7aO
Surprisingly high-quality sound

15 :2009/02/14 02:00:28.69 ID:ob4MUQmw0
All the Pokemon stickers I put around the screen

17 :2009/02/14 02:00:39.58 ID:Lh1F1Ix+O
4 AA batteries would be unthinkable today.

22 :2009/02/14 02:01:05.74 ID:J5K7k/Se0
I dropped it from the 3rd floor and it still worked.

There were these lines on the LCD but I could still play games.

23 :2009/02/14 02:01:15.25 ID:xnw2eYsNO
Mom I know manganese batteries are cheap but they ran out again!
You gotta get me alkalines!!!!!!!!!!!

25 :2009/02/14 02:01:24.78 ID:OQ4U81Qf0
The giant rechargeable battery (with clip)
The thing you could put your Game Boy in that made it look like an arcade machine

31 :2009/02/14 02:02:13.67 ID:FGMBwiKOO
Purchasing one for 10,000 yen

45 :2009/02/14 02:03:43.18 ID:WRt6PdCG0
Crud collecting around the speaker

50 :2009/02/14 02:04:01.94 ID:MO8eCmCY0
Playing mute to save batteries

54 :2009/02/14 02:04:39.83 ID:ws/uHO310
When the batteries ran out, rolling them around inside the compartment and turning it on again

59 :2009/02/14 02:05:21.09 ID:axcqp76r0
I had lots of friends when the first one came out, so how come I’m all alone now?

71 :2009/02/14 02:08:15.99 ID:WQGQdKiq0
Borrowing batteries from the TV remote

81 :2009/02/14 02:11:14.79 ID:ARyAY8BQO
I think it was around third grade. I had bad asthma as a kid so I was in and out of the hospital; I was in there when it came out. My mom said “Here, I got this for you,” and she gave me a new GB and Super Mario Land.

I was so excited I remember the doctor getting mad at me.
From the next day on, whenever my mom visited I’d keep giving her reports like “I made it up to point X or point Y!” and she’d smile and all that.

Sorry for the serious response.
Thanks mom!

Kana: Little Sister

I tried to talk my way out of it at first, but my wife’s decided that I got the name from this game, and it’s pretty much the truth anyway, so I couldn’t. I tried to emphasize how nice a girl Kana is, but that didn’t work either. I’ve got both my and the wife’s parents coming to a family conference after I get home today.

20 – 2009/08/05 11:45:45.93 ID:dNaLV1HeO
Uh, Kana dies, doesn’t she?
That’s creepy, so at least make it Saya or something

29 – 2009/08/05 11:46:58.86 ID:Gv0Doadv0
Once I found out she was gonna be a girl, I had no choice in my mind but Kana.

36 – 2009/08/05 11:49:16.57 ID:uadBUOR80
You know they’re gonna have her write about where her name came from sometime or other during elementary school. Are you gonna tell her the truth then?

48 – 2009/08/05 11:51:41.54 ID:Gv0Doadv0
I’ll tell her that it came from Canaan because I wanted peace in the Middle East.

39 – 2009/08/05 11:50:16.73 ID:Cq6BhfVd0
There’s been a name I’ve had in my mind for a daughter for ages now. Can you guess what it is?

It’s Haruhi.

I couldn’t do it in the end, though. I’m jealous of >>1′s bravery.

63 – 2009/08/05 11:55:12.99 ID:Gv0Doadv0
There was another name I was torn between besides Kana:
Haruna （椿）
I’m a fan of Tenchi Muyo, but I gave up on it because people don’t know how to read that character at a glance and I thought that’d be tough on her.

116 – 2009/08/05 12:07:52.88 ID:4UkQCQLw0
That sounds like hell on earth…worse than being caught beating it as a kid…

155 – 2009/08/05 12:18:05.06 ID:Gv0Doadv0
If worse comes to worst and they make me play it, then maybe they’ll all be moved by the story enough that they’ll thank me for it?

258 – 2009/08/05 12:40:59.58 ID:Gv0Doadv0
I told her that there was a really wonderful child named Kana in this book I read long ago so I wanted to give our child that name. She was OK with it. We had decided that she’d name the kid if it was a boy and I would do it if she was a girl.

281 – 2009/08/05 12:46:32.87 ID:T7U0cMCX0
A lot of people in their 20s and 30s right now were named after actors and pro athletes and stuff. That was what people focused on in entertainment back then, so I don’t think it’s that weird to name your kid after anime or game characters.

293 – 2009/08/05 12:49:15.17 ID:15sGBTvE0
>>281
But you wouldn’t name her after a porn actress, would you?

397 – 2009/08/05 13:20:28.85 ID:15sGBTvE0
Tell her it wasn’t from a porn game. Stick to your guns, even if you’ve already admitted it once. If that doesn’t work, tell her that okay, part of it was that, but there’s another meaning to it and that’s the real reason.

Saying “there was a game with the same name as our daughter so I figured I’d try it” is still better than the worst-case scenario here.

406 – 2009/08/05 13:22:46.09 ID:Gv0Doadv0
>>397
Oh, that’s good!!
I’ll go see if there’s a girl with the same name in some old, prestigious novel or something!

———

Sadly, >>1 disappeared without reporting in on the family conference. Presumably he’ll be without computer access for a while…