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Pink Godzilla Games Rocked My Little World
On Saturday night I found myself in Seattle's International District. Of course in any other major metropolitan area they would call this place Chinatown but you see Seattle has to have things different.
I wandered into a smallish but incredible well equipped game store called Pink Godzilla Games. Jumping Jesus on a pogo-stick this place is a Seattle video game nerd Mecca. (Wow I offended two major religions in the same sentence!) The place is freaking plastered with games from the past two decades of Japanese and American gaming. They had used classic game systems and import game systems as well as a fine selection of import PSP and Nintendo DS games. I found out that there is a new flip top replacement disk drive door that lets you use an boot disk swap trick on the new small PSTwo. I will have to get one installed the next time I go there. I will be damn tempted in blowing an entire pay check on classic Nintendo goodness the next time I am there. The entire experience made me want to bust out my Super Famicom and top loading NES. The sell all kinds of import enabling devices and they have a well informed and enthusiastic staff. It is kitty corner to Uwajimaya in a multi complex. I don't know what kind of connection they have in Japan but the entire place is right out of Akihabara.
To summarize, Pink Godzilla games is holy land to any game nerd that has ever rocked a PC Engine Duo or played a SuperGrafx. If you venture to Seattle you are commanded to go there and empty out your wallet and bask in the import and retro gaming goodness. You better hurry before some Microsoft stock-option millionaire buys the entire inventory and you'll be out of luck.
Jake at July 11, 2005 
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Well it's not called Chinatown because not all of the residents are Chinese. There are two different parts to the International District. One Vietnamese and one Chinese. You can tell which part you are in by the dragons on the light poles.
Posted by: Scott at July 11, 2005 6:44 AM
There is also a huge Japanese and Korean section but lots of "Chinatowns" are like that.
Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at July 11, 2005 7:53 AM
Cool, I did not know about the Korean section. I knew about the Japanese restaurants, but didn't know it went beyond that.
Posted by: Scott at July 12, 2005 6:33 AM
Say, were there any English copies of Katamari Damacy there still? I was in there a couple weeks ago (and yes, it does in fact rock my world) and am only now getting a paycheck. Picking up Katamari Damacy for sure if they have it there still..,
Posted by: Robert at July 14, 2005 6:48 PM
I dunno. Give them a call and ask. They were just about to get in I Love Damacy the sequal.
Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at July 14, 2005 6:55 PM
