Today, I was walking through MBK, one of the larger malls in Bangkok. Amongst the various idiotic foreigners getting screwed on prices because they fail to learn Thai, I ran accross one shop. This shop carried every type gaming system ever created. There were Sega Genesis, Game Boys, Playstations, Xboxs, Famicoms, and even a classic Commadore system. On top of this, there were systems I didn’t even recognize like what looked like a purple Nintendo system that got sumo-crushed by a boombox on front of it. I was amazed.
I asked the owner where he got all this stuff because Bangkok couldn’t have provided all this, not with their economy. The owner said he owns the same type of store in Japan, and just imports it and sells it near the same price. I didn’t ask, because I knew everything in there was way out of my budget, but it is a store I will stop by again, just to see what else he can bring in.
Anyways, I stumbled around to this image and it just brought back memories. I remember playing my first Gameboy, and it was the old 1989 system. I also oned the NES and eventually upgraded to a SNES to 64 to Gamecube. I still haven’t gotten the Wii, but they are plentiful in Thailand, unlike you suckers still in America. Sure, its a couple hundred dollars more, but it might be worth it. After I buy my PS3 for Final Final Fantasy XIII and Grand Turismo 5, the Nintendo Wii is next on my list!
