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About Genki
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Genki Video Games Team has
been on the import scene a long time enjoying many
fine import-only titles through the humble 8bit, golden
16bit, exciting 32bit and mass market Next Generation
era's. Japan remains undoubtedly the number one games
market in the world in terms of size: often treated
to superior service than the West. While region protection
and varying release schedules still exist, Genki can
be relied on to ensure East and West do meet. And
what a collision it can be.
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Along with the latest releases generating
vast queues around Akihabara in Tokyo, we stock a vast
back catalogue of titles here at Genki. Whilst ushering
in the new and sexy technology, there are too many classic
titles unknown in the West due to insufficient press
coverage or the system dying an early death. Genki feels
great pride as a company at bringing the joy and delight
of these titles to unexpecting gamers. Gameplay is the
golden thread running through our classic collection.
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GenkiVideoGames.com was founded to bring
more more exposure to the delightful Japanese exclusive
titles that don't make it to the West. In a global world
influences from other cultures cross pollinate across
the internet and growing exposure to manga, anime and
Akiba culture has meant bringing out Japanese games
in Western markets is much more feasible. The situation
has improved, but going back over the last decade we
can see countless examples of fine games not being released
outside Japan, particularly on machines that excelled
in Japan such as the PC Engine and Saturn.
Genki launched properly on seven eleven (7th of November)
2005 (though we have no connection to the convenience
store...) Genki genrally means "fine", and
is frequently used to ask "How are you?" In
Japan. The language translation software often brings
this out as "Is it vigorous?" which is slightly
more vague in the English language.... Luckily certain
memebers of the Genki team speak Japanese allowing us
to avoid disturbing the harmony too much with our gruff
Western ways on buying trips to Japan. And it also lets
us get hold of titles not commonly available - but we
always base our price on what we have paid for the game
and not what we could potentially sell it for. Hopefully
in doing so we are making import gaming less exclusive.
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The
beauty of the import market is the vast variety of
genres and systems it has. Whilst there will always
be the big titles on each system such as Taromaru,
Crows and Dungeons and Dragons on the Saturn, or Kaze
Kiri, Steam Hearts and Sapphire on the PC Engine,
we get requests for train sims, pachinko titles, anime
themed Famicom games, a bomb diffusal game on the
PSX, war sims... Of course our staple market is the
shoot em up and fighting title with liberal lashings
of platformers. But the real beauty lies in the diversity
of titles out there. Such requests are always welcome
through our "Request A Product" facility
- it often alerts us to brilliant titles we may have
missed and hopefully ends with another very satisfied
customer...
Genki realises what a closely knit community the import
scene is lucky enough to have. As such we aim to provide
solid advice, impeccable service and shinkansen speed
dispatch. Here for the long haul, we hope you'll enjoy
the ride.
GenkiVideoGames.com The
Future Is Now.
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