Today, I got my first Japanese Mega CD game to add to my Mega CD collection. Now reaching 20 games! I rarely buy Japanese games, who could blame me. Some games require you to know the story and that won't help if you don't understand the story, so I only get simple Japanese games if I have the chance. However, this game I had to get mainly for the purpose of a collector. Continue reading and I'll tell you what happened.



I was doing a general search on Ebay, and when I looked at the US page of auctions that are ending soonest and this game caught my eye. It came with everything (including Spine Card) and looked in great quality. It had 1 bid and was currently at $12 with two hours left on the clock. In order to avoid kicking myself, I thought I must bid on this game. The only problem was, I go to a Youth Group that goes on while the auction would end. So I put I high risky bid on just before I left. I was actually looking at my watch up until the time it would end. I went back and to my amazement, I won! After contacting the seller and finding out about postage, I got the game a week later.

So what was the game? Just look at the picture:
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If you don't understand what this game is and what's so special about it? This game is Shadowrun, an RPG based on a Pen-and-Paper RPG (can anyone who knows the concept of that explain it on the comments?) of the same name which is a very superior version of the Mega Drive and SNES game of the same name.

Why is it so special and rare to make it a collectors must? Well, this game was released in February 23rd 1996, making it the last ever Mega CD game to be officially released. With this in mind, it is very hard to find and apparently goes for very high (while I got it for $26 or 17.28 GBP ).

So for my first Japanese game to add to my collection, I believe I was very lucky.

Amount paid: 17.28
Total paid: 256.51

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