Hard-Off Seki store sold less than two weeks after grand opening
ANN’s Japanese staff confirmed the second-hand store Hard Off in Seki City, Gifu Prefecture The legendary Japanese Game Boy demo station was sold last month. The demo station is priced at 2.2 million yen (approximately $14,400).
Photo: ©Hard Off Sekiten
Unlike the demo stations in many other countries, the Japanese demo station (nicknamed the “Big Game Boy”) was shaped like a giant, less portable replica of the handheld system. They were common in the gaming sections of Japanese stores in the early 1990s, but disappeared in the early 1990s. Nintendo Gradually transform the hardware.
an X (formerly twitter) User named “Yūyu” first noticed the release of the Game Boy Demo Station ahead of Hard Off Seki’s official opening on September 26th. The post showed off the Game Boy demo station and its price of 2.2 million yen, with the caption: “Damn! I’m going to get some cash.”
As another post titled “Awaji Ichigō-sen” points out, a man in Kagawa Prefecture in southwestern Japan transformed another demonstration station in a remote bamboo forest into a famous one. artwork (Doubles as email):
I’m sure you know
Kagawa Prefecture has “this” reusable item pic.twitter.com/cin1h2y0SN— Awaji Route 1 (@awaji_1) September 25, 2025
Hard Off is a second-hand electronics and hardware chain store, part of the Book Off Group. Book Off is one of the largest second-hand bookstores and second-hand chains in Japan, with its branches selling comics, CDs, DVDs, video games, consoles, cell phones, sports equipment, toys, used trading cards, and in some locations vinyl records, photography equipment, and even alcohol (at Liquor Off, of course).
Source: Hard Off Seki’s websiteX/twitter account,X/ by @lovelypubbrytwitter account pass Noriko Yashima
