Honolulu Book-Off have any Famicom stuff?

[maxellnormalbias]

I'm in Honolulu and there seems to be a Book Off there. Considering that many Japanese people travel to and live in Hawaii, is there any chance I could find some Famicom games there?

[fcgamer]

You never know if you don't look. 

[Shumi Nagaremono]

You could try calling them.

[maxellnormalbias]

Thank you for calling Book-Off, how may I help you? ^_^

Hi, Do you sell video games? ^_^

Yes.

Do you sell Famicom games?

We sell PS3 games, Xbox 360 games.

No, like Famicom games, on cartridges. o_O

We don't sell video game consoles.

No, like games for the Family Computer '_'

We don't sell computer games.

>_< Well, thanks, I'll come by later and see.

Bye ^_^

(I think the person thought I meant "Famicom" as in "any video game console".)

[zmaster18]

Maybe if you're lucky you'll get a couple Famicom games or see some gameboy stuff. I imagine Honolulu will have even less than the sad selection of retro stuff you see in Canada.

[maxellnormalbias]

May I ask where you are in Canada? In BC there's this hole-in-the-wall Value Village in that always has mountains of Sega stuff. I've also once bought a crappy GameCube game from there and in the case was Viewtiful Joe, Luigi's Mansion, and others I couldn't remember. (I think I won the GameCube lottery!)

[zmaster18]

I'm in Toronto now, but used to live in Ottawa. I had some ok luck at Value Villages in Ottawa.


I'm talking about the actual retro game stores in Canada though. They just totally suck compared to Japan, and even the US.

[maxellnormalbias]

There was one in BC called Gamedeals that was really good. (albeit, overpriced) But yeah, you seem to be on the other side of the country 

Anyways, yeah, they didn't have much in the way of Famicom games. From my perception Book-Off is the Japanese version of Value Village, is this true? Or is that more Hard-Off?

[zmaster18]

I agree that Hard-Off/Book-Off/Hobby-Off/Off-House is the Japanese equivalent of Value Village. But unfortunately, Value Village is practically empty, unorganized, smells bad, and full of mostly junk. Last time I went, I found a black Wiimote, nunchuk, and wii wheel for $4 each. I just opened the bags and put all the items in one and paid $4 for all. Don't do this if you're afraid of getting caught though haha. The only other Nintendo item they had was Dr. Mario for NES for $25.

My best thrift shop deal was at Salvation army. I got a boxed SNES for $20. When I got home and opened it, I found out there was actually 2 SNES consoles inside as well as all the manuals and posters for A Link to the Past in brand new mint condition. Also got a NES with Mario 3 for $10 once.

[maxellnormalbias]

Just went in there.

Literally NO retro stuff. just PS3 and X360 shovelware...