LGR - Got a Huge Box of Japanese PC Stuff!
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Date: 2022-04-14
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filipinowhiteboy
I find japanese releases of western products to be fascinating. I remember going to a book store in Japan and I went into the children's book section and I found a series of books that featured a young anime boy and girl being chased by a dinosaur. The boy had brown hair and glasses and the girl was blond with pigtails and I thought to myself. -Huh, this kind of reminds me of the Magic Tree house books-. Then I realized that they WERE the magic Tree house books. Someone had actually redrawn all the artwork to appeal to the Japanese crowd. It blew me away, I started looking for other western books that had been given the anime treatment.
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I find japanese releases of western products to be fascinating. I remember going to a book store in Japan and I went into the children's book section and I found a series of books that featured a young anime boy and girl being chased by a dinosaur. The boy had brown hair and glasses and the girl was blond with pigtails and I thought to myself. -Huh, this kind of reminds me of the Magic Tree house books-. Then I realized that they WERE the magic Tree house books. Someone had actually redrawn all the artwork to appeal to the Japanese crowd. It blew me away, I started looking for other western books that had been given the anime treatment.
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Puni
I think at least one reason all those Japanese versions of the games we're in so much better quality than what you'd see in the West, is because the computer literacy in Japan is surprisingly low for such a high-tech country. So I'd assume a lot of this stuff was owned by older, more hobbyist-types keeping good care of all of them. I also read that the gaming culture in itself is different there; rather than PCs, many people play with smartphones and handheld consoles, so that might add into it as well.
Or I'm talking out of my ass and all I've heard enough anime characters go -Oh, you can use a computer. That's so cool! -
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I think at least one reason all those Japanese versions of the games we're in so much better quality than what you'd see in the West, is because the computer literacy in Japan is surprisingly low for such a high-tech country. So I'd assume a lot of this stuff was owned by older, more hobbyist-types keeping good care of all of them. I also read that the gaming culture in itself is different there; rather than PCs, many people play with smartphones and handheld consoles, so that might add into it as well.
Or I'm talking out of my ass and all I've heard enough anime characters go -Oh, you can use a computer. That's so cool! -
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Daija
i'd be lying if i said i haven't been binging your videos for the past two weeks. it started off with your sim reviews and now i'm here invested in the oddware series (been learning a lot about old school computers and other gadgets i didn't know existed) and all the other fun misc. stuff you do! i personally love older technology as well, the nostalgia is unreal even if half the things i collect were way before my time, so your videos are so interesting to watch!
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i'd be lying if i said i haven't been binging your videos for the past two weeks. it started off with your sim reviews and now i'm here invested in the oddware series (been learning a lot about old school computers and other gadgets i didn't know existed) and all the other fun misc. stuff you do! i personally love older technology as well, the nostalgia is unreal even if half the things i collect were way before my time, so your videos are so interesting to watch!
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MobCat
The translation for --- (romanji for it is poddo) is still pod: P
In Japanese, context is everything as pod the video game is a English name and most of the time you can straight translation English to Japanese using katakana if it was a Japanese game then most likely it would be in kani -(saya.
Please keep in mind though i'm only just starting to learn Japanese (abort a month and a half in) so there is a high chance i could be wrong: (
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The translation for --- (romanji for it is poddo) is still pod: P
In Japanese, context is everything as pod the video game is a English name and most of the time you can straight translation English to Japanese using katakana if it was a Japanese game then most likely it would be in kani -(saya.
Please keep in mind though i'm only just starting to learn Japanese (abort a month and a half in) so there is a high chance i could be wrong: (
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Steph
I am living in Japan and am thinking about starting a retro pc and game collection. There are so many sweet old people with stuff like this/other electronics chillin in their homes I can probably get offered for cheap/free if I help them out with stuff. :P Also old electronics repair shops might be able to hook me up. The last place I'd go to is resale shops because they'd charge more. Plus half of the fun is the hunt. I'mma adventure!
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I am living in Japan and am thinking about starting a retro pc and game collection. There are so many sweet old people with stuff like this/other electronics chillin in their homes I can probably get offered for cheap/free if I help them out with stuff. :P Also old electronics repair shops might be able to hook me up. The last place I'd go to is resale shops because they'd charge more. Plus half of the fun is the hunt. I'mma adventure!
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Lapras-GD
one of the things i love about japan. they really take good care about their stuff!
if it's not tagged as JUNK, you can pretty much expect something close to brand new: D i bought a gamecube game for example. the seller said it was used - all the paper material smelled like fresh out of the printing factory and everything else was also new
all the time: )
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one of the things i love about japan. they really take good care about their stuff!
if it's not tagged as JUNK, you can pretty much expect something close to brand new: D i bought a gamecube game for example. the seller said it was used - all the paper material smelled like fresh out of the printing factory and everything else was also new
all the time: )
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SumeaBizarro
The text under pod is literally -pod- or -poddo- - in katakana usually used among other uses, with writing foreign words. Letters are ----so ho, hardened it small circle to po small tsu is a common writing tool to make usually next word have longer consonant and to, softened by - to do, poddo because podo would sound weird
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The text under pod is literally -pod- or -poddo- - in katakana usually used among other uses, with writing foreign words. Letters are ----so ho, hardened it small circle to po small tsu is a common writing tool to make usually next word have longer consonant and to, softened by - to do, poddo because podo would sound weird
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GECKman88
Why do the Japanese not like to send stuff to the US, or any other country most the time anyway? Like, people want to give them money and they don't want the thing they are selling so why the restrictions? Same goes for big companies over there, they tend to not want to sell things overseas for no apparent reason.
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Why do the Japanese not like to send stuff to the US, or any other country most the time anyway? Like, people want to give them money and they don't want the thing they are selling so why the restrictions? Same goes for big companies over there, they tend to not want to sell things overseas for no apparent reason.
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mrbigmouth502
If I'm not mistaken, the PC98 series is more similar to the IBM PC than the PC88 series was. In fact, I think the PC88 uses a Z80 instead of an x86 CPU. The two were only released like a year or so apart as well, so it's sorta surprising that the PC88 still managed to take off.
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If I'm not mistaken, the PC98 series is more similar to the IBM PC than the PC88 series was. In fact, I think the PC88 uses a Z80 instead of an x86 CPU. The two were only released like a year or so apart as well, so it's sorta surprising that the PC88 still managed to take off.
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