One of my nephew's friends ordered a Sega Saturn online, when it came in it wouldn't read discs. He organized a refund and the seller told him to just trash it, but instead he gave it to my nephew to see what he could do with it. He sent me a picture and I realized it was a Japanese model, and if that guy was trying a US game in it that would be why it wouldn't accept discs. So I popped out today and checked out various game stores to see what Japanese Saturn games they had. Picked up a couple, one is the Game of Life - a digital recreation of the board game, still factory sealed, and it's got some really weird screenshots on the box. The other is some kind of anime-inspired artwork disc with audio and video clips I believe. That'll be good enough to check and see if that Saturn will actually play region 3 discs or not.

There was a GameStop right by the gas station I filled up at, so I went in. I was bouyed by the memory of the mall location I went to a week or so ago that had lots of PS4 games I'd never come across before. This place didn't have much of anything, resetting my feelings about GameStop back to where it's been for a decade. I bought Sakuna: of Rice and Ruin because it was the only game on their limited shelves that looked interesting.

Oninaki is a German/European PS4 release that looked cool, and was under $20, so I ordered it off Amazon on a whim while I was shopping for other stuff.