Buying games from Japan

[buttasuperb]

once in a while, i buy games from sellers in Japan either on ebay or wherever. ive noticed that almost everything i get that comes from Japan has a weird musty basement smell to it. its really weird, i just got a ngpc game that smelled exactly the neo geo i got a few months back. it simply smells like crusty basement. has anyone else noticed this, or am i a crack addict?

[chocobokick]

I buy a lot of Hello Kitty stuff from Japan and I don't think I've had that problem... sometime things smell a little seaweedy though. Maybe it's different with game stuff.
I don't think most houses in Japan have basements do they?

[NE146]

I used to go to Japan every year since it was so close for the annual family Tokyo Disneyland trip. And with the amount of games they have there.. who the hell knows where any one of them has been. I mean heck, they even sell them on the street! :P (Don't know if they do that anymore though...) ;)

[Raccoon Lad]

According to my research, all of japan is uninhabitable due to nuclear fallout and giant monsters. The japanese live in big plastic bubbles under the ocean with their robot butlers/sex bots. Each day they get into their ultra fast magno-trains and travel to the utopian city in the sky where they spend their days drinking heavily and purchasing used womens undergarments. After a nice dinner of live fish and rice, they play DDR and that ass poking game, while trying to win live lobsters from the claw machine. Then they take the magno train back to their underwater bubbles where they all log onto bukkake websites and pass out drunk.

[Anonymous]

Japan is at a loss for space. And that is an understatement. So what you get is hundreds of games tightly packed together in a small cramped area, and are not moved unless absolutely necessary. The shops are also often below street level, so yes, this can give games a musty basement smell.

[Captain Wrong]

Butta, don't listen to these people. You are, in fact, a crack addict.

[Kroogah]

I've bought quite a few games from Japan and Hong Kong off of Ebay, but I haven't smelled any musty basements. ^_^ Weird coincidence....was it from the same seller?

[buttasuperb]

nope, totally different sellers.

*takes hit of crack pipe*

*falls over*

*three minutes pass*

*takes hit of crack pipe*

[Achika]

Mine always have the smell of stale cigarrettes, but this could be the musty basement you smell of.

[dallasmky]

I noticed it too. I have ordered several games from Japan. They smell like old books.

[Anonymous]

Also, when I lived in Guam, I had several japanese friends. You know how some people's houses have a smell? Not necesarrily bad, but just a distinct odor that you smell when you walk into their house. Well, these friends of mine all had houses/apartments with the same smell, which is not quite the basement smell I imagine, but I can see it being taken that way. So that may be why...

[Kid Fenris]

Hmm . . . perhaps it's that "natto" stuff that the Japanese so love.

Actually, I know what Butta's talking about, as I have a used Japanese copy of Grandia that had a musty odor about it when I first bought it. However, the game doesn't smell like that any more, not after soaking up the stink of quiet desperation that permeates my place.

[zemmix]

And the best part about this is that I bet there is a Japanese forum somewhere right now talking about how we all smell funny. :roll: