Folks who know me elsewhere know I've been fiending for a Wonderswan for a long time and a couple of months ago I decided to go all in and pony up the money for a SwanCrystal since that had my favorite color for the system by far. That said, imagine my surprise when I found one at a local used book store chain here in Japan that I've only ever known to stock more mainstream retro stuff and at easily the best price I've ever seen for this color specifically! (The Super Potato in Osaka wanted twice as much, for comparison.) I couldn't not jump on it knowing that I'd be hard pressed to find a better deal elsewhere.
I've only played a few minutes of my Chocobo Mystery Dungeon to test if the save battery works (it doesn't, yay!), but it's a real cutie in person and I'm excited to dig in properly soon enough. I doubt I'll ever go Kelsey Lewin and go full ham collecting for it (I don't know if you're on here and reading this, but if you are, hi, Kels!), but still very happy to finally get it off my bucket list, even if I'm probably gonna look into getting it backlit modded eventually because these viewing angles... yeah.
But still! π
