Circus Chablie

This post is mostly for Jeff. I spotted this at Super Potato yesterday before I went to work.

It’s Circus Charlie (aka Circus Chablie, since the r looks like a b on the title screen) the NES circus game in beautiful condition in it’s original box. Jeff and I spent many hours playing this on his Chinese knock off NES. Mastering jumping lions through flaming hoops. What I did find shocking when I saw this was…

The price 3129 yen, which is over $30 Canadian! Ouch! I guess Japanese people are really nostalgic about Circus Charlie.

Super Potato

Thanks to the guidance of a fellow foreigner, I finally found “Super Potato” in Sendai. This is a legendary chain of video game stores. You can see the sign for the store above. You can see the little potato in the bottom right corner. I’ve probably walked by it so many times, not realizing it was there. Inside it is basically like a video game museum.

They have games from every generation. The picture above just shows part of the Famicom (NES for you western people) section. The selection is amazing. They even had game stategy books in perfect condition that were well over 20 years old. Lot’s of nostalgia.