Strangest place you've found PCE games

[SuperGrafx]

Definitely a good strategy.
I've done that in the past and occasional find Dreamcast and PS1 games tucked in with the CD's.
Nothing of value, mind you.  BUt still a nice surprise.

[ClodBuster]

Not exactly in the wild:
The only place where I saw PCE games for sale with my own eyes was the dealer's room of an Anime convention. Back then I had no idea of how to obey, so I thought these were Anime music CDs at the first glance. When I had a second look, I realized these were videogames.

When I learned more about NEC's consoles, I met the same seller one year later at the same convention and asked him if he had any PCE or Turbo hardware left. He had none at the con, but we arranged a deal for one of his two private own Turbo Duos and Bomberman 94. When I received the parcel, I found out the hardware was premodded for region and RGB. Nice.

The half a year later, the caps got faulty. This was the reason I joined PCEFX. Lol.

[esteban]

Not exactly in the wild:
The only place where I saw PCE games for sale with my own eyes was the dealer's room of an Anime convention. Back then I had no idea of how to obey, so I thought these were Anime music CDs at the first glance. When I had a second look, I realized these were videogames.

When I learned more about NEC's consoles, I met the same seller one year later at the same convention and asked him if he had any PCE or Turbo hardware left. He had none at the con, but we arranged a deal for one of his two private own Turbo Duos and Bomberman 94. When I received the parcel, I found out the hardware was premodded for region and RGB. Nice.

The half a year later, the caps got faulty. This was the reason I joined PCEFX. Lol.

All in all, everything worked out nicely. 

[csgx1]

Many years ago I found a bunch of complete PC Engine Hucard games at a Ham Radio club electronics swap meet.  Picked up about 40 games for $2 a piece.  Lots of decent titles like PC Genjin 1&2, Ninja Spirit, Magical Chase, plus a good number of shooters.   This lot is still the bulk of my PC Engine collection today. 

Also about 10 years ago, I went on vacation to the Philippines and found a large department store (forgot the name) that sold everything from fresh food, clothes, electronics, furniture, etc.   They also sold a lot of pirate games and systems.  In a cluttered glass case I found a single PC Engine game Armed F that was something like $10.  I bought it mainly because I was excited to find anything PC Engine there.  Surprisingly they also had 2 Turbo Express systems NIB for something like $300 each.

[SuperGrafx]

Also about 10 years ago, I went on vacation to the Philippines and found a large department store (forgot the name) that sold everything from fresh food, clothes, electronics, furniture, etc.   They also sold a lot of pirate games and systems.  In a cluttered glass case I found a single PC Engine game Armed F that was something like $10.  I bought it mainly because I was excited to find anything PC Engine there.  Surprisingly they also had 2 Turbo Express systems NIB for something like $300 each.

Probably "Landmark" or "SM Markets" -- I was there about 3 years ago and saw a similar type of selection of official and pirate consoles.  They seemed to be pushing that stupid Dingoo (or whatever the heck its called) handheld system heavily when I was there.

[shubibiman]

In the late 1990's, I was invited by a friend form the university. We talked about french comics and said he a lots of them in some drawers. he told me to check and I discovered he also had pc engine games ! Back then, this guy was not into video games at all and I really didn't expect he would have ever played video games.

Also, in 2001, in Japan, I found a copy of Twin Bee on the shelf of a piece of furniture in some recycle shop, among porno VHS 

[cr8zykuban0]

To find PCE stuff at a game store is one thing. To find Japanese games at a Goodwill is absolutely mind blowing. I stumbled across some PCE stuff at an old video store the other day, but that isn't all that strange for over here.

very true but I have found some japanese games at a goodwill before. my recent japanese grab from goodwill was a dreamcast copy of biohazard code veronica for $2. before that was japanese tetris, yoshsis cookie, and  donkey kong gb for the game boy $3 each

[Necromancer]

Really? I tryed to play it when I got it but it's all Japanese text and speech. Seems unplayable unless you understand Japanese. I only played for about 5 minutes, maybe it's better later on?

It's fun and has some neat artwork, but it'll require some effort to play if you don't know your moonrunes.  If you expect everything to be spoon fed to you, then yeah, it's "unplayable".

[ishiyakazuo]

The strangest place I've found PCE games is Japan.  That place is pretty crazy!
Seriously... I remember finding someone selling a stack of Hueys out in a free-air flea market outside of (what was at the time) Skymark Stadium in Kobe.  I asked him how much for the stack, and eventually I think we settled on about 1000 yen ($10).  Some pretty good stuff in there, too!  All loose, but I got Twinbee, Space Harrier, and a few others in that batch, I think.

[ahuffman]

I have yet to find any PCE games in the wild unfortunately, but I did find my TG16 at a local game store with 12 games. It was kind of bizarre because I just discovered the Turbo right before that. It was meant to be I tell ya  .