New Arrivals - Games & Hardware
All the latest games, hardware, figures, merchandise, gaming magazines etc that have recently arrived in store are here. Use the filter below to select your console and narrow your search
All new arrivals. Use the menu to narrow your search.
Super Famicom
Platform
Bright and breezy platformer in the traditional 16Bit style with bold, colourful characters full of well-animated expression. In an unusual twist Taruroto uses his tongue to eat blocks and whack away enemies. Recommended to fans of the genre. Subtitled Magic Adventure.
Dreamcast
Simulation
Subtitled ‘The Apprentice Angel.’ Heart warming love simulation set in a beautifully realised, anime style hospital world.
Sega Saturn
Sports
Bring up your wee foal to become a champion stallion. Just don’t hang around with the shady characters at the Tokyo Race Course too much though.
Sega Saturn
Simulation
Continuing the otaku’s favourite Gundam series with cut scenes straight out of the anime to literally blow you away.
Mega Drive
Action
Tongue in cheek take on a battle game with close hand combat and much more hedged on the action side of the genre. Plays like a large sprite version of Cannon Fodder with Metal Slug like combatants on screen players steam into enemy, or at last to a safe spot on screen. Tactics are required, but the game eases one in gently until you find yourself grenade pin in teeth, machine gun in arm.
Miscellaneous Games
Simulation
A simple art package allowing players to compose basic sentences but also muster up masterful pictures to illustrate the day out for example. Very cute and cuddly with a good opportunity to practise hiragana script.
Nintendo Hardware
Accessory
This is the console holder part of the Morinaga produced Nintendo 64 rack. A controller holder clips onto the side to keep cables under control. Separate units allowed it to be built up like eighties flat pack furniture into a full console and game storage unit.
Nintendo Hardware
Accessory
Used to save files on Ascii Super Famicom titles with a large capacity thanks to the two calculator batteries required. Very handy piece of kit to save progress on Gunmans Proof and the like.
Wonderswan
Simulation
Treat for fans of Namcos slug fest as pugilists roam free in the Tekken world before coming up against adversaries to do battle with sharp reactions needed to select a special move. Additional moves can be added by locating cards around the gaming arena.
Sony Hardware
Controller
Used in conjunction with the game from the series, it becomes possible to sharpen your tonsils and croon out a few karaoke classics to impress your friends and colleagues with. Great fun at parties, especially cos play ones.
Merchandise
DVD
330 minutes of insight into this mammoth fight title giving us mere mortals a great insight into why its best to tred carefully if ever found near a Japanese game centre with a pocket full of hundred Yen coins. You can almost feel the heat of the arcade, if not quite smell the body odour, as combatants give their heart and souls to be the undisputed champion.
Mega Drive
RPG
Old school RPG with plenty of combat potential to beef up the players posse of vagabonds to turn them into valiant warriors, especially with some well spent gold down the local armoury. Fans of the 16 Bit era RPG genre will lap this up.
Super Famicom
RPG
Fantasy style RPG tribute to the Final fantasy series with cute sprite based town roaming cut with detailed monster stand offs. An emotive story and that classic Super Famicom look make for a fine role playing game.
Super Famicom
Simulation
A gaming parlour simulator with a pachinko game based on the theme of Horse Heaven and a slot machine simulator where three of the lucky seven hits the jackpot. Seven is nana in Japanese, so this part of the game is known as Nanasy (a pun on the Japanese pronunciation of Nancy?) A popular series with seven instalments.
Merchandise
Guide Book
Lists over ten thousand hints with a breakdown of the games release date and genre alongside a brief synopsis across some fine genres such as the N64, Super Famicom, Virtual Boy, PC Engine, Saturn, Mega Drive, Playstation and Neo Geo with thousands of titles listed. A real gamers bible in Japan.
Miscellaneous Games
Platform
Released as the third instalment of Alex Kidd in the West, Anmitsu is a bit of a rascal princess who takes on platform ninjas in a blend of old Japan plus a few new bits of the modern world such as cake shops. Plenty of fun and good, early Sega gameplay roots with a nice blend of action and chit chat between levels.
Nintendo DS
RPG
The shuffling is in the dungeons as the very layout shifts when the timer has expired leading to a frantic, smash and grab approach and a keen eye on the timer. Dungeons are home to some bountiful treasure and bizarre creatures who stick along for the ride. Traditional RPG fare in rescuing good folk and savouring the charms of the town, yet the shuffle keeps this one ticking along nicely.
GameBoy Color
Simulation
Fans of the wee wheel loving furry creatures will lap up this title dedicated to hamsters cute and cuddly attributes. Included are a quiz on the likes of the correct way to hold a hamster, whether its alright to give them chocolate and their various likes and dislikes. Also in the package are a host of hamster themed mini games.
PS2
Action
An update of Kingdom Hearts II with extra battles, maps and events re-released in Japan for the English voice actors it features along with Japanese subtitles. Comes as a two disk set with the second disk featuring a remake of the GBA title Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories with again a few unexpected extras over the original in the cut scenes and voice acting. A smashing series that shows that big budget collaborations can bare succulently sweet fruit when in the right hands.
Super Famicom
Sports
Horse racing simulator for the dedicated Super Famicom completists or those studying to be a book maker in Japan.
Playstation
One on One Beat Em Up
Luscious pastel palette swished across the screen to bring a Capcom like quality to the weighty Gundam series whilst serving to bring a springier feel to the fighting action. And the gaming mechanics are just as honed as any Capcom title with Cyberbots springing to mind. Some on screen characters are so colossus to not actually be fully on screen with the human character avatars at the bottom reminding us of each pugilists humanity.