Good Squid Discs - Japanese Retro Games & Media

OK, so this blog hasn't been updated for a couple of years. I started this blog in order to log the adventures in Japanese retro games and laserdiscs and wanted to incorporate a shopping cart int...

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Hell of a winter here in Niigata. Had the chance to escape for a couple days to Tokyo to see some friends and of course pick up some retro treasures. Leaving Niigata The next day in sunny...

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Off to the mountains to do a little recycle shop treasure hunting. Bad timing as a huge snow storm decided to unload on us just as we got started. The plan was to drive from Niigata to Gunma, but...

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If you covered yourself in laserdiscs and went outside on a snowy day, you'd be pretty much invisible, don't you think? 24 boxes full of laserdiscs (over 700 discs total) arrived here in the...

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Various items coming in and being mailed out throughout the month of November. Lots of laserdiscs as usual and some great retro video game finds, too! Ascii Stick X-Turbo MSX controller ...

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Many popular video games from the 90s were accompanied by laserdisc releases which featured sample matches and game play walkthroughs. There were dozens of these types of discs, often with a VHS ...

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The past couple weeks has seen a return of The Tempters into heavy rotation here at Good Squid. I first got into the Japanese Group Sounds era of music a few years back but hadn't listened to any...

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Lucky to recently acquire a lot of very rare LaserActive stuff including the goggles, goggle adapter, 3D Virtual Australia, PC-Engine and Mega Drive control packs, and some LaserActive branded co...

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Recently acquired a nice batch of LDs which included this gem: 1972 H.R. Giger Passagen documentary (78LS37). Also some cool horror titles in the lot: Demon Seed PCLM-0018, Friday the 1...

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Good Squid decided to try to escape the heat of Niigata and take the 18-hour ferry ride to Hokkaido. No use though as it was just as hot there. From the port in Otaru, it's a 40km bike ride to Sa...

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One of the last laserdiscs to ever be released, X-Men went on sale in Japan on February 23, 2001. Pressed in very few numbers due to the popularity of DVD at the time. X-Men PILF-2863 Unfor...

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Konami Shooting Best - Gradius, Slamander, Gradius II - Pony Canyon G68X0289 Konami Best Selection - Castlevania, Thunder Cross, Super Contra - Pony Canyon G73X0312 R-Type - Pony Can...

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Time Tunnel sonosheet (flexidisc) from 1967. Inquiries from serious collectors welcome. Comic-book style artwork inside. Time Tunnel Japanese Laserdisc Boxes Volume 1 PILF-1986 (8...

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Picked up a few Konami video game soundtracks released on cassette tape. Salamander (Distributed by Compusic KHY1035) Gradius II (Distributed by Compusic KSF1524) Goffer's Ambit...

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Well it looks like my 4th grade kanji reading skills have found another use. It's great not being completely illiterate! Incidentally it was really easy to figure out 'high speed' and 'low speed'...

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Soundtrack for Peter Jackson's Bad Taste on vinyl picture disc. Released by Q.D.K. Media in 1990. Music by Michelle Scullion. Gatefold jacket with huge fold-out poster and even the little sticker...

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Picked up a bundle of old mid-80's MSX computers which were all pretty much new and unused. Victor / JVC HC-7 MSX Personal Computer Hitachi MSX MB-H2 Casio MSX MX-101 ...

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Just a quick entry to list a few of the rarer horror titles on Ebay over the next couple weeks. Actually putting up around 50 titles, but here is a list of titles that don't come around very ...

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Got lucky and found a box of Neo Geo MVS carts!! Will get them into the online store in the next day or two... Also found a new favorite character in the UFO catcher machine at the game cent...

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Just got a boxed PC-Engine/LD-ROM2 control pack in stock today. Tested it out and made sure it was in good working condition. Just added it to the store. LaserActive PAC-N1 PC-Engine LD-ROM2 Con...

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A couple of friends and I rode the ferry from Niigata to Sado Island this past weekend to participate in the Sado Long Ride event. We were thrilled to find that the ferry had a game room and in ...

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Ran across a couple 20cm demonstration laserdiscs for Pioneer Laseractive products. These were promotional items that were used to show off hardware and software titles for use on the system. Thi...

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Got a few Hi-Vision / MUSE discs in stock and have added them to the goodsquid.com store. Also had Jurassic Park, Out of Africa, and Cliffhanger, but they have already been sold. With Ebay ra...

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Plowing through the hundreds of LDs and LD boxes slowly but surely. The condition of the latest haul is just amazing, most of it looks like it came right out of the factory. Here's some of the an...

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First off, THANK YOU to everyone who bid on discs this week!! There still are some donation auctions running this week so the amount will increase, but at this point the donation amount to the Ja...

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