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2021 12

  1. I turned my wife's car into a Bullet Bill
  2. Will Retro Game Collecting Kill Retro Gaming?
  3. The Coolest Vintage Mario Thing Nobody Knows About
  4. Air Raid has some thoughts on the $660,000 copy of Super Mario Bros for the NES
  5. Lot Lot Silver Member Stickers are Now Insanely Expensive
  6. Famicom Games and Inter-Generational Justice
  7. 100 Yen Shop Famicoms: Beginner's Guide
  8. Mega Sized Super Mario Bros. 2 Menko
  9. A Big Box of Famicom Puzzle Boxes
  10. The Mysterious and Lovely Famicom Milk Caps
  11. Famicom Menko are Amazing
  12. Famicom Galaga CIB Completes my Namcot collection

2020 8

  1. Retro Game Advent Calender
  2. The End is Near: Planning for our first, and last, Retro Game Christmas
  3. Famicom Jigsaw Puzzles are Awesome
  4. Revelations: Famicom's Sexiest Game Probably isn't Very Sexy
  5. The Famicom Rides Again
  6. Extremely Valuable Used Ice Cream Wrappers and a 1986 Famicom Contest I Never Knew About
  7. Super Mario Kart Race: Suburban Japan Edition
  8. Lego Mario and Ice Climber

2019 4

  1. Famicomblog 10th Anniversary
  2. Horrible Things are Happening in Nagoya's Osu
  3. Fake Famicom Games? The Curious Case of Gradius Archimendes.
  4. The Year You Stopped Being a Kid

2018 10

  1. Sony PS2s can no longer be repaired by Sony: Meanwhile millions of Famicoms continue to hum along
  2. Went back to Fukuoka, Did some Game Shopping
  3. Cleaning Poo the Famicom Way
  4. Famicom Menko are so Cool!
  5. The Most Expensive Famicom Games at Super Potato
  6. Oh No! Japanese Retro Video Game Bars and Cafes are Getting Shut Down by the Fuzz!
  7. The Last Famicom Game: Adventure Island 4
  8. The Awkward Relationship Between the Famicom and NES Collecting Worlds
  9. Kyorochan Land and Delayed Effects Product Placement
  10. Bringing the Blog Back to Life

2016 1

  1. The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Retro Video Game Market

2015 8

  1. My Childhood Video Game Stash has been Found!
  2. Checking in
  3. Some Famicom Playing Cards - Mach Rider Style
  4. Famicom Price Information Part 2
  5. Yasuda Fire & Marine Safety Rally: Oh God, What Have I Done?
  6. Interesting find: Atari 2800 Discovery?
  7. Some Interesting Famicom Price Information: 88 Games Worth More than 5000 Yen
  8. Yahoo Auctions: Somebody auctioning off an entire CIB collection of Famicom carts?

2014 34

  1. More Famicom Rarities: Amada Puzzles and Menko
  2. Rarities: Nintendo in Store Display from the early 1970s
  3. Famicom Shopping News: Super Potato Just Opened a Shop in Nagoya
  4. L'histoire d'un Petit Robot et un Virtual Boy.
  5. Five Years of Famicomblogging: A Retrospective
  6. Awesome List: Japanese Gamers 18 Fond Memories of the Famicom
  7. Interior Decor: Famicom Carts as Parquet Flooring? Wallpaper? Coffee Tabletop?
  8. The Cool World of Chirashi (Famicom and Movie Mini Posters)
  9. Interesting Famicom Stuff: The Kid who Designed Brightman and his Gold Rockman 4 Cart
  10. The Original Mach Rider
  11. Retro Game Collectors: Why Don`t We Collect Rookie Games?
  12. Getting Used to the Top Rider Motorcycle Controller is Something you Need to Devote, like, a whole Weekend to.
  13. Cool Finds: Famicom Lunch Box
  14. Famicom Bars: I want one.
  15. Oddball finds: Famicom Label Error Carts
  16. Random Question: What is the deal with 17?
  17. Question: Are video game carts cooler than discs?
  18. Retro Game Shopping in Nagoya Part 2: Osu Mandarake
  19. Retro Game Shopping in....Nagoya! Part 1 Osu
  20. Stuff you Might Find in a Lot of Games Bought Off Yahoo Auctions: An Autographed Copy of Takahashi Meijin Bouken Shima!
  21. Famicoming on a Rainy Day
  22. What Kinds of Companies Go on to Make Video Game Consoles?
  23. Cool Stuff: A Famicom with some Famitsu Stickers on the Controllers
  24. Back in Fukuoka Again: 007 has Become a Manga Souko
  25. Remeniscing about being a Famicom Newbie
  26. Collecting Goal for 2014: Finish my CIB Namco 18 Series
  27. Choujin Ultra Yakyuu Baseball Limited Edition and the Elusive Phone Cards
  28. 10 Yen Finds: Famicom Sky Destroyer Chirashi
  29. CUTE!! Oh my god these are so....CUTE!!
  30. More Awesome Japan Only Famicom Releases
  31. Famicom Rarity Find! Battle Formula!
  32. 20 Japan-only Famicom Releases that I Kind of Like
  33. Week of Garfield Party Idea: Kuso Game Marathon!
  34. Getting Ripped Off on Yahoo Japan Auctions: Buyer Beware

2013 23

  1. I`m a Gambling Man....with my Nintendo Electro Roulette
  2. My New Sqoon: Missing those Lovely Irem LEDs
  3. Some Game & Watch Goodies
  4. Breaking Famicom News: Lost Love and A Fake Famicom Cart? The Gold Binary Land Scandal.
  5. Famicom Cart Storage the Saga Continues....
  6. Famicom Price is Right/ Antiques Roadshow Japanese TV Program
  7. Return to the Fukuoka Famicom Shops
  8. Yahoo!! A Red Lefty RX!!
  9. Some More Atari 2800 Love....and Hate
  10. Cruising Around Town in a 1972 Nintendo Lefty RX
  11. Warehouse Find? An Unopened Case of Famicom Choujin Ultra Baseball!
  12. Retro Find: Frogger Handheld by Konami/ Gakken!!
  13. The Yahoo Auction Price Explosion: Woe is me
  14. Kansai Retro Game Shops 4: Mandarake in Osaka`s Amerika Mura
  15. Kansai Retro Game Shops 3: Super Potato in Osaka!!
  16. Kansai Retro Game Shops 2: Den Den Town in Osaka
  17. Kansai Famicom Shops Part 1: Kobe
  18. Happy 30th Famicom!!
  19. Retro Rarities: Amada LSI Game Mini Cards
  20. The RF/ AV Divide: The Ugly Carnage the Switch to Digital Broadcasting has Caused for Japan`s Retro Gamers
  21. The Atari 2800 Saga
  22. Famicom Storage: the Next Generation
  23. I`m Back Again: My CIB Small-box Nintendo Famicom Collection

2012 69

  1. New Year Update: Retro Gaming Withdrawal Symptoms
  2. The Blog is not quite dead yet: Nintendo Hanafuda Cards Arrived in Mail
  3. More Famicom Erasers
  4. A Famicom cart that fits on your fingertip
  5. Yahoo Auction Treasures: Epoch TV Vader
  6. My New Holy Grail: 1968 Nintendo N&B Block Leisure House
  7. Sharp Donkey Kong Jr/ Donkey Kong Math: The Famicom`s first Multicart
  8. Crisis Force for the Famicom: Somebody got a Bargain
  9. Precious Namcot games.....Precious....
  10. Losing my Yahoo Japan Auction Virginity: Better than Losing my Actual Virginity
  11. Sega My Card: Hero
  12. Free Stuff: Why I have been drinking so much tea lately
  13. Japanese Game Shops: Service is Second to None
  14. A Million Euro Collection on Ebay that Might Actually Be Worth It
  15. Top 80s Movies that Would have been great in 8 bit
  16. They want HOW MUCH for Metal Gear?
  17. On the Famicom Hunt in Kitakyushu
  18. My Famicom Collection: A Short Update
  19. Japanese Retro Game Shops in Decline?
  20. Kung Fu Fighting!!
  21. Puck Man Says: I am so Pucking Awesome.
  22. Them Hard Off Label Peeling Blues. I got `em. Got `em real bad.
  23. Exed Exes on Waikiki Beach
  24. Please Stay Tuned, Regularly Scheduled Famicomblog Content Will Resume Shortly
  25. Japanese Retro Game Shops in Decline?
  26. Star Wars Power Droid Wanders Aimlessly Around Town
  27. Lights Out Omocha Souko
  28. My Kind of Sort of Almost Valuable But Not Quite Famicom Games
  29. Fripp the Entertainment Shop: Another Decent Place for Famicom Games
  30. Famicom Rocky: Best Manga Ever
  31. Manga Souko: A Very Good Famicom Shop
  32. Crazy Retro Junk Bin Finds
  33. Manhatten Police and Running Stadium: First Famicom Trade
  34. Freakonomics: How to Enjoy an Endless Supply of Free Retro Games and Consoles
  35. United Colors of Famicom
  36. Takeshi`s Castle on the Famicom: My First Famicom Internet Purchase!
  37. Omocha Souko Part 6: Coming Home With a Bag Full of Famicom Carts
  38. Omocha Souko Part 5: JuJu Densetsu vs Makai Shima
  39. Spartan X 2 and Why I Hate the Other Omocha Souko
  40. Omocha Souko Part 4: The Shinto Shrine to Video Games
  41. Toilet Kids for the PC Engine: Greatest Creation Mankind has Ever Produced?
  42. Fix That Famicom Disk System Belt at the 100 Yen Shop!!!!
  43. Haruna Anno: Classic Game Princess
  44. Omocha Souko Part 3: Why It Didn`t Work
  45. Omocha Souko Part 2: The Grand Tour
  46. Omocha Souko Part 1: The Greatest Retro Game Store Ever.
  47. Excuse Me, I`m a Little Verklempt. Worst Retro Gaming News Ever.
  48. A Look at Some Famicom Jaleco Boxes
  49. The Oyama Collection
  50. Listening to Wall of Voodoo and Writing About the Sega Mark III
  51. Some Thoughts on Retro Games Over a Burger and a Comic Book
  52. Nintendo in the 60s, Man, the 60s! Ultra Machine!
  53. Famicom History: Toy Catalogs and Over the Hill Consoles
  54. Slow News Day: Professional Baseball Player Likes Famicom
  55. The Famicom 3D System - Bought it. Tried it. Liked it.
  56. Collector Rage: Missing Out on a Bargain
  57. Lord of King Named in Mitchell Report as Famicom Steroids Scandal Widens
  58. Blue Steel: The Double Dragon - Derek Zoolander Connection
  59. More Famicom Stuff: Super Mario Bros Stage Figures
  60. Famicom Fright Night: A Most Hideous Freak of Nature!
  61. A Whole Lot of Baseball Games
  62. Little Family Computer Memo
  63. Famicom Box Art Battle: Twin Bee vs. Ice Climber
  64. Sega Mega Drive Adaptor and the Ridiculousness of 80s Sega Stuff
  65. Mandarake Finds: Kousenjuu SP Gun and Old Japanese Star Wars Stuff
  66. Only in Japan: Naming Your Video Game After Jesus
  67. Atari 2600 Air Raid and the Relative Value of Collector`s Holy Grails
  68. 80s Nostalgia and the Appeal of Retro Gaming
  69. Only in Japan: Hi no Tori Gaou no Bouken

2011 129

  1. The Famicom Game Collection at the New Year
  2. Tsutaya: Worst Retro Video Game Section Ever
  3. Famicom Crap I Came Across but did not buy while Christmas Shopping!
  4. Phil and Mr. Floppers Very Merry Christmas Special Part 2
  5. Phil and Mr. Floppers: A Very Merry Christmas Special
  6. I am Idiot Hear Me Roar
  7. Double Color TV Game 15 Trouble
  8. How Soon is Now? Waiting to Forget a Video Game
  9. Book Off: Price Gouging Happens in Japanese Game Shops too!
  10. Famicom Robot Presents: The Famicom Stuff Collection
  11. Other Famicom Stuff: The Strategy Guides
  12. 1991 Hong Kong Famicom Commercial
  13. Cheap Ebay Thrills: 1982 Topps Donkey Kong Sticker Cards
  14. Opening a 30 Cart Famicom Pack
  15. At the Kaiten Sushi Restaurant with a Turbo Twin Famicom
  16. Mario Fail
  17. Why I like Collecting Video Games: They aren`t Baseball Cards
  18. Oddball Junk Bin Finds: Famicom Karaoke Studio Controller
  19. New Famicom Cart: Gimmick!
  20. Behold. MEGADRIVEASAURUS!
  21. Is it Possible to Stalk a Retro Video Game Store?
  22. Intellivision Revision: Japanese Hard, American Soft
  23. MSX Games! Another Insane Bargain Find
  24. Only in Japan: Spelunker and Spelunker 2 Yuuja he no Chousen
  25. Donkey Kong Game and Watch: Yet Again, More Stuff
  26. More Stuff: Donkey Kong Jr and Snoopy Tennis Game and Watches
  27. Bandai Intellivision: This Could Be the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship
  28. Bringing a New Console From Mandarake Home on the Subway
  29. Famiclone Wars Part 2: the Next II
  30. Famiclone Wars Part 1: the Famulator
  31. In Search of the Square Button Famicom Revisions
  32. Boxed Famicom Games and the Problem of Collection Creep
  33. Another Arkanoid 2 Controller
  34. Sega SG-1000 II Update:Its Alive!
  35. About a Virtual Boy
  36. Another Extremely Rare Sealed Video Game Bites the Dust
  37. Mega Bargain of the Day: Sega SG-1000 II Console
  38. Mega Bargain of the Day: Pile of Epoch Super Cassette Vision Carts
  39. The Famicom Robot: A Day in the Life of
  40. Seoul Searching: A 2 Hour Quest for Korea`s Retro Video Games
  41. Double Trouble Donkey Kong Jr. Style: Pulse Line versus Box Art
  42. A Layman and a 6 Month Old Puppy Try to Make a Power Glove Work Without Thoroughly Reading the Manual
  43. New World Famicom Galaxian Record!!!
  44. Famicomblog Sells Out
  45. I've got those Famicom Disk System Blues....
  46. Anatomy of a Japanese Video Game Store's Retro Section
  47. A Day at a Japanese Game Center: One More Reason Arcade Fans Should Visit This Country
  48. More Retro Handhelds: Tomy Programingdigipro Powerman
  49. Retro Handhelds: Bandai Gekisen U Boat LCD Solar Power
  50. Fukuoka Famicom Shops IX: Wanpaku TV Game
  51. Famicom Ads: GeGeGe no Kitaro and Kinnikuman
  52. An Afternoon Trying to Break the Famicom Galaxian Record
  53. Atari on the Famicom: Millipede and Stargate
  54. Sqooner or Later you Should give Sqoon a Try
  55. Famicom History: When Dragon Quest III Went on Sale
  56. Spartan X
  57. Feats of Strength: How Much Abuse can One Famicom Cart Take?
  58. Video Game Cart Design: God do I Hate Super Famicom Carts
  59. Gramicom: The World's Oldest Gamer?
  60. Swingers: Best Video Game Movie Scene Ever?
  61. Famicomblog 100th Anniversary Experiment
  62. A Gamer Exposed: The Ugly Truth About Retro Video Game Setups
  63. Box Art Battle: 10 Yard Fight vs. Tecmo Super Bowl
  64. I Nearly Died Getting a Red Twin Famicom Today.
  65. Famitsu turned 25, and the top Famicom games of 1986
  66. Box Art Battle: Lode Runner vs. Raid on Bungling Bay
  67. Famicom Cushions and other Famicom Crap....I Mean Merchandise. Famicom Merchandise.
  68. Famicom Light Gun and Wild Gunman: Yipee Ki-Yay M------- F-------.
  69. Famicom Cart Mosaics: The Luigi Wall
  70. 80s Girls and the Famicom: Miho Nakayama's Tokimeki High School Idol Hotline
  71. False Famicom Stores: Remnants of a Time when "Famicom" meant "Video Game"
  72. Why Video Game Grading Services are a bad Phenomenon
  73. Other Retro Japan Collections1: Japanese Movie Programs
  74. Famicom and Game & Watch Stuff From Loft
  75. Video Game Collecting: Boxed or Loose?
  76. Warning: Excessive Famicom Play May Cause Drowsiness in Puppies
  77. Black Super Mario Bros. Famicom Cart
  78. Bad Computer! Very Bad! And Famicom Store Pictures!
  79. Famicom Party Game! Loads of fun!
  80. Famicom Cart Trading
  81. Mahjong Famiclone
  82. Crazy Climber and the Perils of Collecting Loose Famicom Carts
  83. 1985 Famicom High Scores
  84. Why Japanese Retro Game Shops Are So Much Better Than North American Ones
  85. Amada Famicom Mini Cards: The Coolest Famicom Thing You Never Knew Existed
  86. Famicom Rockman Slang
  87. Flea Market Finds Part 2: Nintendo Batting Practice with Koichi Tabuchi and Sadaharu Oh
  88. Flea Market Finds Part 1: Epoch Cassette Vision!
  89. Transformers Mystery of Comvoy And a Note About Old School Japanese Pre-Transformers
  90. Fukuoka Famicom Shops VIII: The Cheapest Famicom Carts in Town
  91. Japanese Gobots! Machine Robo Series Gyro Robo (Cop-Tur)
  92. Fukuoka Famicom Shops VII: The Other Omocha Souko
  93. Mario Bros. Game and Watch Hits the Road
  94. Famicom Dog
  95. Breaking News: Mandarake Has Moved!!! And I Got Stuff There!
  96. Requiem For My Super Mario Bros. Famicom Cart Keychain
  97. More Video Game Shopping Porn! Another Boatload of Famicom Carts!
  98. Nintendo Color TV Game 15
  99. Famicom Baseball! Reflections on the Art and More Japanese Video Game Slang
  100. Dining a la carte: Ice Climber Famicom Japanese
  101. Famicom History Part 2: Japanese Famicom Slang 101
  102. Famicom History
  103. Famicom Releases by the Numbers
  104. Emulation Schmemulation: 5 Reasons You Should Own an Old Console
  105. Fukuoka Famicom Shops VI: The New 007 and Hakozaki Flea Market
  106. Kyoto: Birthplace of the Famicom
  107. Super Mario Brothers Bottle Cap Collection by Pepsi
  108. M.U.S.C.L.E. Men and the Famicom: Kinnikuman Muscle Tag Match
  109. Strange Shopping Days
  110. Of Earthquakes and Video Games
  111. Mega Bargain of the Day: 3 Consoles and a game for 10 bucks
  112. First Famicom Carts of 2011
  113. One Hour Famicom Beach Vacation
  114. 2011 Famicom Awards
  115. The Unsentimenal Famicom Collector
  116. Fight Climate Change: Buy a Famicom
  117. Why the Famicom Has Aged Well Part 2: No Planned Obsolescence
  118. Mega Bargain of the Day: KousenjuuSP Electro Safari
  119. Pachinko and the Famicom: AKA the Stupid Side of Japanese Gaming
  120. Pulse Line Cart Bonus! Fun with Photo Effects!
  121. Finally Some Pulse Line Carts
  122. Why the Famicom Has Aged Well Part 1: Imagination
  123. Fukuoka Famicom Shops V: Don Quixote and Village Vanguard
  124. Mega Bargain of the Day: Exorcising my Twin Famicom Demons
  125. Mega Bargain of the Day: Another Square Button Famicom
  126. Family Sitcom
  127. Famicom Deathmatch!!! Blonde Dude from Contra vs. Blonde Dude from Ikari
  128. Famicom Cart Condition: Why Bad is Good and I'll never Buy Sealed Stuff
  129. Planes, Trains and North Korean Propaganda: Tour de Super Mario Brothers 2011

2010 28

  1. The Unveiling (drumroll): Donkey Kong Hockey!! And Why Game Boys suck.
  2. Mega Bargain of the Day: Famicom Basic, Family Trainer and Climber Stick
  3. Merry F'ing Christmas
  4. Famicom Console Wars
  5. 70s films and the Famicom: Daikaijyu Deburasu
  6. Famicom Storage Mark II: The Kitchen TV
  7. Guess the Christmas Present
  8. Famicom Cart Storage: My Long Nightmare is Finally Over
  9. Fukuoka Famicom Shops IV: Flea Markets Brought to You by the God of War
  10. Fukuoka Famicom Shops III: Mandarake
  11. Back in the USSR: That's where Famicoms Are
  12. Fukuoka Famicom Shops II: The Decline and Fall of the Famicom Empire
  13. Fukuoka Famicom Shops 1: 007
  14. Wall of Famicom
  15. Tour d' Excitebike: Fukuoka 2010
  16. Famicom Console Stacking: The Next Olympic Sport
  17. Star Wars and the Famicom: A Tale of Two Games
  18. Retro-game Shopping will never be the same again
  19. My Twin Twin Famicoms
  20. More than half way there now
  21. Famicom Fort
  22. Square Button Famicom: My new paperweight
  23. All Shopping Spree'd out
  24. Super-awesome-fantastic Retro Game shopping spree
  25. Opinion: On the economics of retro game collecting
  26. My setups and stuff
  27. Some Famicom shops
  28. The Collection

2009 2

  1. The Vaus Arkanoid II Controller
  2. The aesthetics of the Famicom Cart