Imported Japanese Video Games & Hardware

-Game Of The Week-

Circus Lido (New)

PC Engine Hu Card

Puzzle - £59.99

Control a green lizard who must eat insects and spit them out into plants in order to progress, hindered by the fact you can only use your tail to climb the...

-Recommended Game-

Raiden IV (New)

XBox 360

Shoot Em Up - £109.99

Sharp, sleek 3D take on the well known shooter but intriguingly gameplay pays homage more to the older roots of the series rather than the later instalments...

-Recommended Game-

Castlevania Circle of the Moon (New)

GameBoy Advance

Platform - £119.99

Akumajo Dracula has always suited its 2D roots like one of its well-fitted, gothic, velvet gloves. The developers seem to revel in its parallax paradise and...

-Recommended Game-

Shining Soul II (Value Selection) (New)

GameBoy Advance

RPG - £16.99

Absolutely beautiful sprite engine with pastel shaded world and cheery chip tunes making for a popular version. Plenty of help from Sega to guide players th...

-Recommended Game-

Rockman Zero 4 (New)

GameBoy Advance

Platform - £41.99

In Genki's humble opinion the GBA architecture feels like a souped up version of the Super Famicom. Maybe that’s why we feel so at home with its graphical s...

-Recommended Game-

Rhythm Land (New) (Preorder Gift)

Mega Drive

Rhythm - £54.99

Famed for its Famicom revival, Colombus Circle turns its fair hand to the 16Bit circuit with impressive results. Based on a rhythm action premise, there are...

-Recommended Game-

I Love Softball (New)

Famicom

Sports - £94.99

Oozes retro chic from every iota of the box and every byte of the programming of this all lady softball game. A cherished title for those fond of Eighties r...

-Recommended Game-

Mickey Mouse Fantasia (New)

Mega Drive

Platform - £39.99

Based on the Disney film with Mickey on a quest to gather the well-hidden musical notes from their well disguised positions. The adversaries provide a tough...

-Recommended Game-

Under Defeat HD Limited Edition (New)

PS3

Shoot Em Up - £72.99

Conversion and handing over the torch from the Dreamcast to keep the world of shooters illuminated. Jaw dropping, smoothly animated visuals and attention to...

-Recommended Game-

Get Bass 2 (New)

Dreamcast

Sports - £39.99

Beautiful weather and water textures add to the natural healing that comes from cruising the lakes in the great outdoors, dropping a line every now and then...

-Recommended Game-

Shenmue I&II (Limited Edition) (New)

PS4

Action - £54.99

The legend returns to the PS4 to bring joy to the many devotees who never lost hope of a revival of their flame for Ryo and his quest to avenge his fathers ...

-Recommended Game-

Senko no Ronde Duo Limited Edition (New)

XBox 360

Shooter - £29.99

Soups up the superb prequel with faster gameplay and plenty of bullet flowers that look like Ueno Park in spring after a few too make sakes. The dash featur...

-Recommended Game-

Ketsui Extra Limited Edition

XBox 360

Shoot Em Up - £47.99

The long awaited 360 debut may have taken a extra year or two to appear, but is well worth the wait building on the boss rush DS version. Gamers of a certai...

-Recommended Game-

Mamoru Kun Limited Edition (New)

XBox 360

Shoot Em Up - £69.99

The 360s arm gets another hardcore tattoo to its bicep with this shoot em up coded by ex Raiden developers and with character design by the Senko no Rondo g...

-Recommended Game-

Final Blaster (New)

PC Engine Hu Card

Shoot Em Up - £87.99

Pilot the winged ship that can launch a fire phoenix attack and is also equipped with a smart bomb attack, but that loses all your power ups. Varied stages ...

-Recommended Game-

Zekkyo Senshi Sakebrain (New)

Nintendo DS

Action - £15.99

Club Nintendo exclusive but the ghost memberships were well worth the effort when playing this wee belter. Strangely expansive for a give away title (well f...

-Recommended Game-

Jet Set Radio Future Soundtrack (New)

Soundtracks

Soundtrack - £29.99

Funky, fresh, fly-guy Hideki Naganuma shows off his talents in this cracking CD based on the X-Box incarnation. Perfectly suited to the gameplay, but equall...

-Recommended Game-

Fighters History 2 (New)

Super Famicom

One on One Beat Em Up - £114.99

Fighters History boxed a brave battle for Street Fighter tributes with its Russian themed Karnov level and its Thai temple. Yet its clear the attention to d...

-Recommended Game-

ThunderForce VI (New)

PS2

Shoot Em Up - £74.99

At last the much vaunted sequel to the shooter held dearly to the pulsing fingers of many a shmup fan. As such it was always going to prove a controversial ...

-Recommended Game-

Sega Ages Puyo Puyo 2 Perfect Set (New)

PS2

Puzzle - £24.99

A host of new anime style characters to chuckle along with and do battle adding much to the enjoyment with thirty challengers each possessing a unique strat...

-Recommended Game-

Space Channel 5 (New)

PS2

Rhythm - £79.99

Gyrate to the beat with the sexy Space Channel reporter Ulala. Just don't ask about the story! Unique feel to graphics, full of futuristic frolics....

-Recommended Game-

Paranoia Scape

Playstation

Action - £94.99

Up There with a certain title on the system that may have been popular with hippys in the 60's (we are on enough black lists as it is.) Real off-kilter game...

-Recommended Game-

Guilty Gear (Reprint) (New)

Playstation

One on One Beat Em Up - £14.99

Superlatives fail to touch on the sheer brilliance of this 2D fighting game. A worthy rival to Street Fighter and Capcom, yet not quite as popular possibly ...

-Hardware Of The Week-

Wide Boy (New)

Nintendo Hardware

Accessory - £11.99

A very dapper attachment for the original GameBoy to magnify the size of the screen. ...

-Recommended Hardware-

GameBoy Advance SP Naruto RPG Orange (New)

Nintendo Hardware

Handheld - £369.99

Limited edition GameBoy Advance in the SP fold up modelling adorned with Naruto symbol and done in its bold and brash orange colour. Very smart piece of poc...

-Recommended Hardware-

Famicom Super Famicom Mega Drive Twin (New)

Miscellaneous Hardware

Console - £74.99

A clever, value hybrid console at a great entry price for starting an import collection. Utilises USB ports for the controller with an AV output, the consol...

-Recommended Hardware-

Ascii Pad FT2 (Capcom Version) (No Manual or Box)

Sony Hardware

Controller - £37.99

A very ergonomically snug pad for the PS2 taking inspiration from the elusive Saturn style that works a treat with beat em ups such as the many fighters its...

-Recommended Hardware-

Nintendo Classic Mini Super Famicom (New)

Nintendo Hardware

Console - £109.99

Nintendo re-releases its Super Famicom in mini format with twenty one built in games including (and its hard to trim this list down!): Super Mario World, F-...

-Recommended Hardware-

Neo Geo Mini Samurai Spirits Limited Edition (Haomaru) (New)

SNK Hardware

Handheld - £179.99

Clear system with two clear pads in the Samurai Spirits theme with Haomaru representing this version. Alongside the clear look with the bonus pads are six S...

-Recommended Hardware-

Mega Drive Mini (New)

Sega Hardware

Console - £99.99

Forty two 16 Bit games on one miniature console. This could have been traded for anything in the Nineties playground. Darius, Ghouls and Ghosts, Super Shino...

-Recommended Hardware-

Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit (Smoke)

Sega Hardware

Memory Card - £24.99

The Dreamcast had some very smart memory units for it and their charm was added to by having the LCD screen to display data and also some fine, limited edit...

-Recommended Hardware-

Hori Mini Pad 64 (Tropical Red)

Nintendo Hardware

Controller - £44.99

One of the most cherished design of pads for the system which has really stood the test of time, such are its principled design plans and exceptional comfor...

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-Recommended Hardware-

Family Computer Disk System (New)

Nintendo Hardware

Console - £199.99

The original version of the disk system as crafted by Nintendo and its early design flair is in more than evident. The system offered so much potential with...

-Recommended Hardware-

Shooting Gameside Vol 5 (New)

Merchandise

Magazine - £17.99

A series tattooed on the hearts of many a shooter veteran and deserving of its accolades and attention on the Gameside podium. Also features Wild Guns, Koku...

-Recommended Hardware-

Retro Bit Generations 2 (New)

Miscellaneous Hardware

Console - £69.99

Ten titles from Athena, a dozen from master baker Capcom and sixteen from Coconuts Japan make up the bulk of these forty two pieces of gaming history that c...

-Recommended Hardware-

Famicom Power Glove (New)

Nintendo Hardware

Controller - £119.99

The height of geek chic fresh from the States and appropriately translated to an eighties market fresh from Back to the Future and looking like a prop from ...

-Recommended Hardware-

Playstation Classic (New)

Sony Hardware

Console - £84.99

Twenty games from the transition from 2D to 3D gaming and plenty of happy Playstation memories. That said the superb shooters of Darius G and Gradius Gaiden...

-Recommended Hardware-

Sega Saturn Bag (New)

Merchandise

Merchandise - £64.99

Hard to resist this two way bag that can be used as a shoulder bag or rucksack. Ideal for stashing goodies on a trip to a game show or perhaps to work as a ...