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"The Tourists Have Taken Everything" Laments Japanese Resident as Retro Runs Dry

"I don’t bother shopping for retro games in big Japanese cities anymore"

Kyoto-based American researcher Oliver Jia posted images of his local Surugaya, a store which sells retro games along with other collectable items. Several other people in Jia's Twitter thread point out that stores outside of the big cities still have a decent amount of stock, but it stands to reason that eventually, even those more remote outlets will be bled dry. However, it's easy to see why Japanese residents might take issue with tourists flagrantly lifting entire shelves of stock in order to simply flip them online, rather than to actually play and enjoy them.

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