Maid cafe

A classmate finally dragged me to one of the infamous maid cafés strewn across akihabara. I always wanted to go but felt so embarrassed to go there by myself.

We got greeted with a super kawaii "Welcome, master!" And shown to a table made for people half my size. We picked what we wanted to eat and the maid helped us "inject love" into our food by chanting "moe moe kyun".

It was fun for a one time experience, but really awkward to be treated like a little girl. Oh well, got a picture of me in bunny ears and one of the maids.

Buying games can be cheaper than buying a chewing gum

I think most people who play games regularly have at least heard about a place called Akihabara in Tokyo. Also known as Electric town, Akihabara is a gamer's paradise. I am not going deep into what you can buy here, since it would be a lot easier to tell you what electronics you can't buy here. Instead I just wanted to share this funny store I saw.

If you want to buy old games in Sweden you are most likely not going to find any store that sell anything older than Playstation 2 games and even then the prices are a bit on the expensive side. Not much but just enough to give a purchase a second thought. I have some friends that collect games and they agree that most purchases are better imported.

Anyway, I was walking around on the main street in Akihabara and found this store selling old Super Famicom (known as Super nintendo in Europe and America) games for as low as ten yen per game. Admittedly, almost all of those games were really old sports games with obsolete stats on famous sports athletes. Baseball is very popular in Japan so it was not surprising that most of it was baseball games. Still, it was there. 

The store also had a huge collection of better and more popular games, old game consoles and gaming paraphernalia. If you have been searching for classics like Zelda, Mario, Sonic, Kid Icarus, Metroid or the like you could find it for a mere 1000-2000 yen depending on the quality of the cassette.

They also fixed several old broken gaming consoles, if you want a Super famicom for less than a pub night, Akihabara's different stores have you covered.

Also, if you are interesting in video game discussions and let's plays, you should check out my classmate's FaceBook page of MASP and his Youtube channel MASP Games. They talk about old school games, gaming culture and generally nerdy gaming stuff.

If you are interested in video game music and hopefully learn to play yourself someday you can listen to another friend, Piano perspective. He is incredibly talented and once I get a piano I will definitely listen to him play.

And just for some silly music and dance:

You wouldn't download a car...

 I saw a 3D printer for the first time! In Yodobashi department store in Akihabara they show cased a small 3D printer making little chess pieces and houses in plastic. It looked pretty cool and of course it would be fun to have one of those. But then what would I do with it? What to make? If you are into plastic figurines or models you can make those and paint. That would be super cool. For those playing with Warhammer 40K and similar models, how will this affect the businesses?

I also found a name tag with my dear Swedish flag on it. Maybe I should've bought it to show what kind of foreigner I am. But what if they still haven't realized I am a foreigner? It might be a shock for them after my attempts to blend in. I wouldn't want that. Nah, I better go and keep staring wistfully at a 3D printer.

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