Been pretty dormant here but with all this talk about imports again
it got me wondering when I first started collecting imports. So...
What was your first import game you ever bought (I guess for any
system)?
Mine, incidentally, was a Pc Engine game. Back in 1993 when Dracula
X came out, I knew it wasn't coming here at all, but read many reviews
on how great a game it was, and just had to get it. I knew that no
convertors were needed to play a CD game (back then I don't think many
people even thought of playing Japanese games so that probably why it
wasn't much of an issue as it is today). So I started looking into it,
the Internet wasn't what it was today and had to search in my Video
Game Magazines. Looking in the back where all the stores shown prices
for new import games such as BRE Software, Game Dude (what a bastard),
some others. But found it cheapest, at the time, at Japan Video Games,
I'm sure they're not around anymore as I have not heard about them at
all for sometime. So I had my dad order me the game, hell I was still
in High School at that time so no Credit Card, got it for $69.99. I
tell you after I popped that sucker in I was hooked, was a great game
and still is. Still have it too and told my mom when I die that bad
boy is coming with me, amongst a few others, as it was my first import. Since, on countless systems, I have hundreds of imports but it all
started with what many call the flagship Turbo/PCE game. And as people were talking here about finding shrinked games, many
mentioned I still have new, basically bought not to play but just as
collectors status. They have to be out there, it just finding them and
seeing if someone is willing to part them, as for me you'll have to pry
them from my kung-fu grip ;)
Adam...