Hi, I’m Jimmy Hapa! I have a channel on YouTube called Import Gaming FTW which is dedicated to video games in Japan–mostly “retro” titles that didn’t see worldwide releases. My goal is to create videos and share some the best or most interesting games that were left in Japan, though I occasionally talk about demo discs and game collecting on the channel as well. I may or may not be on RetroRGB because I have blackmail material related to its founder, Bob.
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ImportGamingFTW
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/importgamingftw
On January, 11th 2024, Clear River Games published physical editions of Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights for the Nintendo Switch and Sony PlayStation 4 for European markets. While the game’s publisher Binary Haze Interactive brought physical releases for both systems back in 2022 in Japan, and Limited Run similarly did the same that year […]
Fans of Konami’s Ganbare Goemon, aka the Mystical Ninja, have been hoping for a new game in the series ever since the last new title was released on the Nintendo DS way back in 2005. It’s 2023 and that still hasn’t happened—Konami just doesn’t like money, it seems. However, indie developer and publisher GoodFeel […]
On December 6th, 2023, LIPEMCO! Translations quietly released an English language translation patch for Tengai Makyou ZIRIA. This 1989 PC Engine game from Hudson Soft and Red Company has the distinction of being the first RPG developed for play on CD-ROM technology. ZIRIA is also the starting point of the Tengai Makyou/Far East of Eden […]
In 1988, Hudson and NEC introduced CD-ROM technology to the world of video games with its CD-ROM ROM System add-on for the original PC Engine. This allowed games to store exponentially more data than ever before, opening the doors to seemingly endless new possibilities in gaming in terms of graphics, sound and scope. In order […]
If you’re old enough to remember the 90s, surely you can recall the heated rivalry between Nintendo and Sega fans, whether you were into gaming or not. Of course it’s the games and systems that became the weapons fanboys wielded in that era…but in this video, it’s video tapes about those games and systems that […]
There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of games that have been canceled over the years. Sometimes we’re lucky enough to get to experience these unreleased games years later through ROMs leaked on the internet or even in an official capacity, like what happened with Nintendo’s Star Fox 2 on the SNES Mini. But more often than […]
In the 80s, 90s and even early 2000s in Japan, thousands of video tapes about video games were produced either to sell or rent in shops, give away as promotional items or advertise new games and products at retailers. Video Games On Video is a new series from Import Gaming FTW that aims to take […]
At the beginning of 2022 I had the pleasure of sitting down with Mr. Yoshiteru “Torajirou” Tsujino for an interview on his work with the Tengai Makyou series…if that’s too difficult for you (or Bob) to pronounce, it’s also known as Far East of Eden. Mr. Tsujino is the artist and character designer for the […]
Goemon and Ebisumaru are back to save Japan yet again in episode 46 of Import Gaming FTW which is all about a Japan-exclusive Game Boy Color title from Konami called Ganbare Goemon: Seikuushi Dynamites Arawaru, an entry from the series known in the west as “The Mystical Ninja.” That title is a bit of a […]
