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The Mandai Shoten store in Maebashi has a Famicom gachapon machine. For 200 yen, you can receive a random Famicom game. You never know what you will get! How exciting! What could it be? Pac Man? 1943? Arkanoid? Dragon Quest? Tetris? ZANAC?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My friend Lou got Derby Stallion, the boring-as-hell horse race simulator. Oh joy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mandai Shoten store in Maebashi has a Famicom gachapon machine. For 200 yen, you can receive a random Famicom game. You never know what you will get! How exciting! What could it be? Pac Man? 1943? Arkanoid? Dragon Quest? Tetris? ZANAC? My friend Lou got Derby Stallion, the boring-as-hell horse race simulator. Oh joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[163,10,20,12],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","tag-famicom","tag-gaming","tag-mandai","tag-retrogaming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2465,"url":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/a-trip-to-mandai-in-takasaki-august-2025\/","url_meta":{"origin":1448,"position":0},"title":"A trip to Mandai in Takasaki, August 2025","date":"2025-09-01","format":false,"excerpt":"So a couple of weekends ago, I had the opportunity to visit the Mandai in Takasaki and look at the neat stuff there. 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