English Visit Shop

For Writers, Video Makers, and Wiki Editors

If you are writing about Japanese video game hardware and need a photograph, a release date, a model number, or a detail only someone who has opened the machine would know, this page is for you. Take what you need. Credit us. That is the whole arrangement.

What this museum is

Enjoy Game Japan Museum is an English-language museum of Japanese video game hardware and software. It grew out of a small family game shop that opened in Toyohashi, Japan, in 1986. Every machine photographed here is one we own and have repaired with our own hands. The museum sells nothing. The shop is a separate site.

It is run by one keeper, the son of the shop's founder. Our story →

Photographs you may use

We have released 763 photographs of real hardware under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license. You may reuse them in an article, a video, a Wikipedia entry, or a book, including commercial work, for free. No permission email is needed.

The one condition is credit: "Photo: Enjoy Game Japan Museum" with a link to the museum. Copy-paste attribution text is on the license page.

Facts you may cite

The Reference Room holds tables we built from the machines and boxes in front of us: Japanese release dates, model numbers, region-lock behaviour, and side-by-side comparisons of Japanese and Western releases.

A citation that works for us: Enjoy Game Japan Museum, "page title", URL, accessed date.

If you find an error, tell us. We will correct the page and note the correction. We would rather be corrected than be wrong in your article.

Sounds

Sound of the Machines is our series on what each console's sound chip actually sounds like. Listen →

What we can speak to first-hand

  • Repairing and cleaning Famicom, Super Famicom, Nintendo 64, GameCube, and Dreamcast hardware.
  • How Japanese versions differ from Western releases: region lock, model numbers, box contents.
  • What a Japanese game shop looked like in 1986, from the family that ran one.

Contact

Email the keeper at info@enjoygamejapan.online. We answer in English. There is no PR agency in between.