What's a good place to buy shmups

the black_7 · Post by **the black_7** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:27 pm

I'm just getting into this hobby and wondering if you guys can point me in the direction of a good place to buy shmups arcade pcbs.

I know a good number of sites that have a few shmups here and there, but is there any place that you guys know of that has a good concentration of them?

KindGrind · Post by **KindGrind** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:31 pm

Here?

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:33 pm

Ebay gets worse and worse every passing month.
But still, it's a good place to rake some good oldies.
Sounds obvious, but...

the black_7 · Post by **the black_7** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:35 pm

KindGrind wrote:Here?

.... ... I'm sorry I should have clarified. I know I can buy and trade some here. I'm talking about a shop that might happen to specialize in them.

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:38 pm

No shops, unless there's some pokey ass dedicated STG store in the backyard of Tokyo. I'd recommend using Yahoo Japan for the rarer stuff, or the majority of shmups for that matter. Play-Asia have a nice selection, but they're massively overpriced. I guarantee it. Chances are you'll be able to pick up Homura for $20 off Yahoo Japan (and it come to about $40-50 after fees and shipping), or you could buy it for $60 off Play-Asia. That's what it comes down to, most of the time.

Or you could just whore out GaijinPunch.

the black_7 · Post by **the black_7** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 2:40 pm

Elixir wrote:No shops, unless there's some pokey ass dedicated STG store in the backyard of Tokyo. I'd recommend using Yahoo Japan for the rarer stuff, or the majority of shmups for that matter. Play-Asia have a nice selection, but they're massively overpriced. I guarantee it. Chances are you'll be able to pick up Homura for $20 off Yahoo Japan (and it come to about $40-50 after fees and shipping), or you could buy it for $60 off Play-Asia. That's what it comes down to, most of the time.

Or you could just whore out GaijinPunch.

.....hhmmm. I wasn't aware you could buy or sale things off of yahoo, yahoo japan for that matter.

Post by **spadgy** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:18 pm

Where are you based? Loads of cities have indie game stores that might stick shooters.

Game Focus in London for example. They've usually got a few JPN PS@, PS1, DS Saturn etc. shmups in stock.

Game Over? in Amsterdam too.

ChurchOfSolipsism · Post by **ChurchOfSolipsism** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:47 pm

japans aawsum

cools · Post by **cools** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 5:31 pm

the black_7 wrote:.....hhmmm. I wasn't aware you could buy or sale things off of yahoo, yahoo japan for that matter.

Warning. YAJ is both addictive and expensive. I'd thought those stating the fact were wrong on both counts until I started last week.