Official Hard Off ambassador Alex Kraus returns to chat about Book Off, the biggest chain of used bookstores in Japan. A hotbed for retro games, we chat about the history of the store, amazing finds, and how you can get retro games for cheaper. In the game section I chat about Konami’s arcade run and gun Mystic Warriors and the physics platformer Giga Wrecker Alt from Game Freak!
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(0:00) - Intro
Feature
(0:56) - Book Off w/ Alex Kraus
Games
(23:58) - Mystic Warriors
(28:57) - Giga Wrecker ALT.
News
(33:10) - Earthbound 30th anniversary
(34:27) - Tokyo Game Dungeon 4
(35:09) - Xbox games possibly hitting Switch
(36:05) - Closing
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