Budget Basement
All games listed under £12 are to be found in this basement section
All budget items in stock. Use the menu to narrow your search.
Merchandise
Merchandise
Draw string bag featuring Nezuko from the hit anime series with elegant Japanese print design and a generous size to make it practical for use.
Merchandise
Merchandise
Very tasteful kimono shaped pouch with acrylic charm on the zip for ease in opening. Perfect for the Demon Slayer fanatic.
Nintendo 64
RPG
Follows up the spankingly good Paper Mario combining it skilfully with RPG elements to delve deeper into the colourful Mario world. The balance is just right for those who like their RPG action to be kept fairly simple without too many treks to remote caves to light a lantern all beautifully coated in Nintendo’s saccharine sweetness.
Sega Saturn
Sports
A tasty piece of programming making the PlayStation eat humble pie. Crisp graphics running a a high frame rate truly brought the arcade experience home. But gameplay is what counts – the developer’s extensive rally car physics research oozes from every powerslide.
Playstation
RPG
16bit style exploration of the gaming world spliced with Guardian Heroes style 3D sprites for the turn based combat with dramatic spell effects and swooping camera angles.
PS2
One on One Beat Em Up
Tecmo’s Team Ninja finest hour comes bouncing onto the Playstation 2 with Kazumi and Ayane in full costume glory. As the theme song advises though: ‘Hide your drastic desire!’
Super Famicom
Shooter
As Parodius is to Gradius, Cosmo Gang is to Galga adding colourful, cartoon sprites and power ups plus bonus challenges between levels, an end of game boss and even a two player option to the trigger happy mix.
Playstation
Action
Builds the tension up slowly like the original Jurassic Park film and then cranks up the sweaty palm factor just when your least expecting it. Some great cinematic quality moments Spielberg would be proud of.
Playstation
Platform
A brilliant version containing all the elements that make Goemon so special: brilliant platforming sections, wandering around town getting some octopus dumplings or staying for a nights sleep, crazy, super hero style 3D mecha sections and above all the wacky humour that makes Goemon stand head and shoulders above other gaming characters. Ganbare Goemon!
Famicom Cart
Platform
Any game featuring colourful fruit power ups can’t be bad in Genki’s eyes and Donkey Kong Junior is in fine fettle as the wee monkey leaps from vine to vine in a more aerial assault on his papa gone crackers. Vintage gaming from an exciting era of home consoles.
Sega Saturn
Puzzle
Like all the best puzzlers – easy to pick up, but refuses to let go. Puyo Puyo is at the pinnacle of its genre: sublime, fluid gameplay backed up with zany characters including a samurai mole and a grape aubergine…?
Sega Saturn
Simulation
An interactive anime version of the huge series that was re-released on the PC such was the fan demand. Whilst interactivity is fairly limited to joypad directional presses it all looks sweet with solid combat scenes and is bundled up in fine presentation.
Sega Saturn
Simulation
Running a convenience store is certainly hard work. Especially if your Japanese reading skills aren’t up to it like most of the Genki team! Don’t forget to change the bento boxes when the best before time has run out. Curiosity value.
Merchandise
Merchandise
A fitting way for the Zelda fan to store their pass card with this Hyrule themed shield motif holder.
PS3
Shooter
Cinematic shooting action as Capcom blends the boundary between Hollywood blockbuster and triple A gaming. Plenty of nice surprises as players run and gun anything that moves. The Japanese version has Japanese subtitles to the cut scenes and uses English for the audio.
PS2
Action
Gundam mecha robots battle it out using the Seed power up to inflict some serious paintwork damage on opponents. A real host of mechs are selectable in the versus mode with extras only accessible by first unlocking them. The presentation, graphical look and soundtrack with voice overs all reflect the immense proportions of the Gundam series and are suitably slick.
Merchandise
Figure
Sega Toys fine Insect Land plushes take inspiration from many invertebrate with the praying mantis the inspiration behind this fine creature.
Merchandise
Merchandise
Looking like a Tamogotchi, Mahomil is a gentle representation of its on screen Pokemon presence made in pastel colours with fluffy finish.
Merchandise
Merchandise
A very nicely designed A4 file to reward those preordering the sword slashing, supernatural game in Japan. Japanese inspired design with Tengu and fox masked character illustrations. Full title of the game: Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba The Hinokami Chronicles.
Merchandise
Merchandise
Looking like he just rocked up from the anime convention comes this fine tribute to Ortho complete with harness, mask and shock of blue, spikey hair.
Merchandise
Merchandise
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Soul Hackers, and also sold though a special pop-up store in Akihabara, comes these delightful fridge magnets to liven up any kitchen or radiator. Fine gaming art.
Figures
Figure
One unit of Capsule Toy blind packed from the Tokyo Revengers Series. This is Volume 2 of the series.
PS2
A Bit Special
Players trace patterns to launch attacks. The more elaborate the pattern, the more powerful the move, like a fighter. Full title: Bakufuu Slash Kizna Arashi.
Merchandise
Merchandise
Sixty high-grade trading card sleeves featuring the popular anime series involving plenty of ghostly goings on. Japanese Scooby Doo with spooky eastern ghouls. This sleeve features Kintaro himself.
Merchandise
Merchandise
Pixel perfect Dragon Quest themed tape showing plenty of Slimes. Looks a treat on presents, not that you’ll want to give it away from your inventory.
PS2
Action
Feudal fight game with plenty of samurai to fight along the scenic, autumnal path but the odd crow like man and oni for good measure to truly test your swordplay as the games heroine.
PS2
Action
Big quiffs and plenty of motorbikes and hanging around corners as street style Japan gets a game full of fists and feet. Superb cel-shaded look and fight effects make for a lot of exaggerated fun.
Merchandise
Figure
The Japanese Rhinoceros beetle is a popular insect and Sega have this plush tribute that reminds Genki of the special Saturn game Nights.
Playstation
Sports
Intriguing twist on the football scene in that players take a third person perspective view of their teams star man and play the 90 minutes as that single player. The sequel is equally skilled on the ball with plenty of tricks up the sleeve to drop a shoulder.
Playstation
Sports
Combines the fun of pull back and go toy cars with the right blend of driving thrills and spills action. The cartoony approach over the realistic version makes it a very enjoyable ride.
Dreamcast
A Bit Special
A treasure hunt title known as Yukawa Otakara Sagashi in Japan that was a promotional disk, but could also be bought. Players at the time were lucky enough to be able to win ten thousand Yen to allow them to order the likes of Border Down or Space Channel 5.
Playstation
RPG
Enchanting RPG from those skilled craftsmen at Enix that flew in the face of the expected mould of the genre with free flight between villages and dungeons and horizontally viewed exploration like in Princess Crown. All exquisitely executed with panache and distinct graphical style.
Playstation
RPG
Chooses to go with the 16 Bit RPG sprite-based world and looking very dapper for it. The exploration action also seems to also take a leaf out of Zeldas manual (or a feather out of his cap) with enjoyable three quarter perspective romps around the platform levels swishing ones sword.
Playstation
Sports
Solid enough kick around from football fan developers Tears that includes five a side mode for those off the wall winners.
Playstation
Simulation
A ban of loyal followers journey with you from the fresh, blue skied lands of Rebus to the dark, dank and dingy dungeons for some seriously extended combat simulation. Known as Kartia The World of Fate in the West.
Sega Saturn
Simulation
Stylish presentation as you’d expect from such a lucrative license with Sega pulling the strings. Gameplay is not as unrestricted as it could have been, but when it looks this good few Evangelion evangelists will have cause for complaint.
Playstation
Rhythm
Gives wannabee gamers the chance to strum their way to the highest score, most likely to the dismay of any onlookers. Hit the high notes or see your air guitar fall pretty flat.
Playstation
A Bit Special
Toro, the white cat, travels to exotic places around Japan and is the star of ‘Always Together’. Such was the popularity of this virtual pet game in Japan that Toro even has a slot on Fuji television’s news.
Dreamcast
One on One Beat Em Up
Not quite wrestling, not boxing – no holds seem barred either in this encaged grapple fest. Plenty of modes of play and makes good use of the license, even down to the ability to edit your player. Still even without changing your man there are some brutal looking bruisers to choose from.
Playstation
Sports
Similar to the Virtua wrestling title on the Saturn with the Playstation’s tell tale grasp of polygons and hopefully that’s all that will be grasped in this wrestle fest. Contestants have a wide roster of moves and the shift to polygons allows for more realistic representation of the famed, Saturday afternoon sport.