Month: January 2025

Our treasurer went to Japan and all he brought back were… these retro consoles.

After wandering around the streets of Nagoya, our treasurer made it into one-too-many Book Off stores (and one Super Potato) and wound up with a few retro consoles and some games:

These will be featured in our Arcade (along with many others), but some highlights from this haul are:

Nintendo Super Famicom (SFC) – Japanese version of the SNES, along with some games including:

  • Two Ranma 1/2 Fighting Games
  • Super Mario Kart
  • RockmanX (Mega Man X in the US)
  • And More!

PC Engine Core Grafx II – A variant of a console that was released in the US as the TurboGrafx-16 with:

  • Neotopia – A top-down adventure game that is often compared to the original Legend of Zelda
  • Final Lap Twin –  Ever wanted to play an 8-bit RPG but instead of battle, you race? Yeah, this is kinda like that. 

Does anyone know how to do social media?

Retro Matsuri is happening in July 2025. You can register for it right now. We just signed a contract for our first musical guest and we will be announcing them eventually. We are talking to vendors and getting things ready. We are having such a good time doing all the preparations for starting a convention but none of us have time to care about social media right now.

Here’s where you come in. If you go to the staff page, you can sign up to volunteer and indicate that you are interested in helping with social media. Then, we will talk to you about it. And, uh, then maybe you will do it. Wouldn’t that be fun?

Please?

Please wouldn’t that be fun?