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Yes, I'm French and I have Japanese and Americain games.

I only import now

Back in the PS1 and 2 days I did

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I´d think from my personal experience that almost all "serious" gamers bought imports back in the 90s. It was somewhat of a factor in the distinction between more casual players and the core audience. Not importing directly, but all magazines were full of shops offering tons of the latest imports.

I import stuff all the time, like it's not special or out of the ordinary for me. Get paid tomorrow, might pick up a ps5 and and like a Japanese Saturn game or something

I used to import all the time back in the 90s. It was the only was only way to get consoles and games that weren't locked to 50Hz n the UK. The first game I imported, and paid a high price for, was Starfox on the SNES. I did not want the local version called Starwing🤘

Quite a few Saturn games for my jp Saturn! I must of also imported 4 or 5 of the jp black gameboy micros over the years too.

I’ve only started doing it in the last like 5 years but yeah, mostly old games but I have imported exactly one PS4 game because it didn’t get a US release, that being the Certain Magical Index/Virtual On game.

importing saturn games is the way to go, more affordable and a bigger library to choose from!

Godammit. Came to post the same thing XD

Ooooh yeah, and this doesn't cover any of my PSX, PS2, Wii or SFC stuff which is the vast bulk of my Japanese import stuff. But I also imported North American releases especially on PSX, Chrono Cross, the The Legend of Dragoon etc.

Yup. Used to buy quite a bit from Play-Asia.

I got the GBC Pokemon Games (Silver and Crystal) from an import store, but the first game I actually imported myself was Metroid Prine Hunters on the DS.

Bigger question for me is which was the first? I have no idea...!