Game Choice Club Hong Kong, been there seen it, got the T-Shirt!

**virtual alan** · 01-31-2006

Well back from my trip to Hong Kong

And some pictures as promised of Barry and his store.....

Please excuse the pictures as taken with my mobile/pda so not fantastic (could enter as thumbnails if wanted)

If you didn`t have the address you could easily miss it...no shop windows :-)

Once you find the building you could miss the door :-)

Here is the man himself!!!

You can see some nice stuff in tis cupboard/display

Pani Q / AIBO

Some more delights

And another display case

And more

Bought a few bits and pieces and he gave me a couple of T-Shirts...Vib Ribbon promo and a Resident Evil 4 one

On another point.....just around the corner was a huge arcade/mall, loads of computer and some game stuff..............there was an old boy (50`s ish) who was sitting working on a pile of PS2`s doibng something but all in bits................on a shelf he had loads of other stuff he had been working on....even 360`s!!!!

If you want to see any other of the pics I took...

http://photobucket.com/albums/e125/h...NS%20PICTURES/

Not in any particular order

I am the whale in the jacuzzi with the cigar :thumbsup:
iF YOU WANT

**Segafreak_NL** · 01-31-2006

Nice pics :)

**SuperGrafx** · 01-31-2006

Whoa! A minty boxed Japanese R.O.B.!!!

I have the US version, but the Famicom version of the Robot has always eluded me. Boxed would be a huge bonus!

**Giel** · 01-31-2006

Hey!
I was there last summer when I went to Hong Kong. Bought a DS game(kirby or something) there. Nice store :)

**babu** · 01-31-2006

*drools* why can't there exist shops like that over here ^^
anyway, nice pictures :)

**liquitt** · 01-31-2006

wow nice pics, thanks for sharing!

Greatsaintlouis · 01-31-2006

That store just looks flat-out awesome.

**ccovell** · 01-31-2006

Yeah, nice guy. I bought a Dr.PCJr. system from that store a long, long time ago.

Sweater Fish Deluxe · 01-31-2006

Game Choice Club has always been my favorite of the Hong Kong shops. They have all the kewl stuff that Lik-Sang and Play-Asia don't carry, but unlike AI Trading or GamesTech they seem to actually have all the stuff listed on their site in stock. Plus, they always throw in a bunch of little freebies whenever I've made an order from them, which is just too cool. Success Shop is pretty cool, too; I've had a couple good orders with them.

...word is bondage...

**ASSEMbler** · 01-31-2006

The personification of the shop is stunning. From website, to chap behind a counter.

That was the experience of the pre web hunt, finding places like that.
It's not until you have pictures like this that it all comes back to the roots.

This is excellent, and I am making it front page news.

**Kittyhawk** · 02-01-2006

So that's the guy I've ordered from! He's really nice. Awesome pics, dude! It made my day. ^_^

**gaming247** · 02-01-2006

To echo/agree with everyone else: That is an awesome shop!! I'd love to visit it

**Calpis** · 02-01-2006

Guess I'm the only one that thinks they're conceited assholes.

**liquitt** · 02-01-2006

Originally Posted by Calpis

Guess I'm the only one that thinks they're conceited assholes.

erm...yes seems so, why do you think so?

Ringo · 02-01-2006

To the right of the Pippen, What the hell is a "Sharp Titler"?

Edit
Looks like its some kind of famicom.

**cahaz** · 02-01-2006

One of the reasons im not buying any objects of my collection online (well, sometimes im obligated to...). I find it way cooler to hunt items down with your car, finding places, meeting other peoples, searching desesperatly for an item in an allibaba's cavern...

My collection isnt as great as many people here, of course. I have no m2 or anything of the type, but im proud of what i've found, by myself, and i can say that every item in my collection have a little story behind it. :xmas:

those places literally make you dream. And nothing's better than talking with a fellow collector while shopping. That guy seems very friendly. :)

**Pyract** · 02-01-2006

What the hell is a "Sharp Titler"?

http://hawanja.com/famicom_titler.htm

Hawanja's site has info on the titler.

**Warakia** · 02-01-2006

I still buy the vast majority of my games in Japan on yearly trips. When I was living in Japan it was great getting banter going with the owners of smaller places. Giving you a 10 percent discount or something and looking out for stuff for you. It adds a whole lot of humanity to the gaming experience. + there is the thrill of the looking, exploration of show cases and so on. Even though super-potato is a rather souless chain, they capture the assault on the senses that you just don't get online where everything is neatly presented, I want to actually look for stuff - gives so much more of a thrill.

The thing I really love about gaming shops in japan is the sense of "instantness". You know that whatever you buy is yours then and there. There is no waiting a week for postage, customs, etc. You can buy something and be cracking open the packaging in a cafe 5 mins later. Maybe I'm just impatient!

There is only really one person who I actually talk to about collecting and games etc in every day life and it makes a huge difference. Just having a good gaming conversation in the real world is a rare thing. As is a relationship with a gaming shop in the real world.

For the record, my item of choice in those pics is the Hanshin Tiger Gamecube. I have been looking for too long. I actually had the chance to buy one in osaka, but I left it a couple of hours to think about it and when I came back, it was gone. Maybe they are more common outside Osaka, where hatred for the tigers runs strong!