NDS One Piece Gigant Battle - Import Preorder

NCS Preorder Synopsis
«©NCSX» Pirates enjoy scuffling, plundering, and drinking. Bandai's upcoming One Piece Gigant Battle focuses on the propensity of pirates to scuffle although a OP drinking game would probably be big fun. In Gigant Battle, up to four players link up in 2-vs-2 pairings and fight each other on stages that were taken from the One Piece manga/anime franchise - specifically, locales from the Sabaody Archipelago story arc, the Impel Down episode, and the Marineford drama. The action takes place on the top NDS screen while the touchscreen serves as a control console where supporters may be called upon to join the battle with a tap of the touchpen.

According to the preorder details from Bandai, every copy includes a bonus set of password cards which may be used to unlock in-game content. Since the allocation is 100%, we're going to assume that the cards are packed inside every copy of the game. Preorders ship on Sept 9, 2010.

PS3 Ken to Mahou to Gakuen Mono. 3 - Import Preorder

NCS Preorder Synopsis
«©NCSX» Magic school is in session once again and this time around, students have a choice between two institutions of eldritch education. Choose one of the two and your protagonist is outfitted in the uniform and colors of your newly appointed school. Characters may be custom-created by choosing race, sex, hairstyle, pigmentation, and voice. From there, players build a party of adventurers who venture into dank digital dungeons, battle monsters, and gain boatloads of experience as well as loot. The publisher Acquire also touts 40 personable NPCs who appear in the game to provide dramatic foil and interaction.

Preorders for the PS3 import Ken to Mahou to Gakuen Mono. 3 are welcome to ship on September 16, 2010 at JPY6980 or US$75.90. All reservations will include a bonus Drama CD which features the voice actors from the game in an original story and a bonus "Startup Guide" which is being given away by the publisher in 1:1 ratio. Based on the description of the bonuses in the preorder solicitation, the CD will likely be inserted into a plastic flap located on the last page of the Startup Guide.

PS3 Front Mission Evolved - Import Preorder

From the Publisher: Front Mission Evolved is the latest installment in the Front Mission Series, making a debut departure into a Third Person Action game. As Dylan Ramsey you will be faced with armies of enemies as you command and customize your Wanzer, a giant bipedal tank. Each Wanzer is equipped with massive firepower as you navigate the concrete mazes of cities, and travel as far as the frozen wastes of the Antarctic in massive battles that could cause a world war.

Story: The year is 2171, and a new cold war has washed over the world as the countries of the world have gathered under two separate banners the U.S.N and the O.C.U. Giant towers called Orbital Elevators have been built from the ground into the sky, each offering unblinking surveillance the world over. Dylan Ramsey, a Wanzer engineer for Diable Avionics, is quickly swept up in a battle of geopolitical interests, and as he stands staring down the precipice of a world war he will unearth the truth behind a new enemy. Preorders are welcome to ship on September 16, 2010.

PS3 Rorona no Atelier: Arland no Renkinjutsushi (Best) - Preorder

NCS Preorder Synopsis
«©NCSX» The Atelier franchise from Gust launched in 1997 with Atelier no Marie and the brand has endured for over a decade. There's been Ateliers named Lilie, Elie, Judie, and more. The latest girl to join the cast is a lassie named Rorona whose look is somewhat reminiscent of Kurarara Hananokouji (aka Clara) from the Power Instinct series. In the game, Rorona plies her alchemy skills to synthesize new and possibly wondrous items. Before she can do that however, she'll have to interact with citizens, town folk, and other contacts to learn about the world and explore the local environs to find ingredients and reagents.

Atelier no Rorona features cel-shaded visual styling for a crisp and color-saturated look that's pleasing to the eye. Preorders for the Best re-release of Rorona no Atelier are welcome to ship on September 23, 2010.

PSP Ken to Mahou to Gakuen Mono. 3 - Import Preorder

NCS Preorder Synopsis
«©NCSX» Magic school is in session once again and this time around, students have a choice between two institutions of eldritch education. Choose one of the two and your protagonist is outfitted in the uniform and colors of your newly appointed school. Characters may be custom-created by choosing race, sex, hairstyle, pigmentation, and voice. From there, players build a party of adventurers who venture into dank digital dungeons, battle monsters, and gain boatloads of experience as well as loot. The publisher Acquire also touts 40 personable NPCs who appear in the game to provide dramatic foil and interaction.

Preorders for the PSP import Ken to Mahou to Gakuen Mono. 3 are welcome to ship on September 16, 2010 at JPY4980 or US$55.90. All reservations will include a bonus Drama CD which features the voice actors from the game in an original story and a bonus "Startup Guide" which is being given away by the publisher in 1:1 ratio. Based on the description of the bonuses in the preorder solicitation, the CD will likely be inserted into a plastic flap located on the last page of the Startup Guide.

PSP Yu-gi-oh 5D's TAG FORCE 5 - Import Preorder

NCS Preorder Synopsis
«©NCSX» It's been nearly a year since Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Tag Force 4 was released and the game's gotten long in the tooth. To feed the appetite for more Yu-Gi-Oh, Konami's releasing Tag Force 5 in a couple of months. The new game features over 4500 cards which include Dragon Knight Draco-Equiste, Shooting Star Dragon, and Starstrike Blast. In addition to cards in the canon, exclusive TF5 cards are also included such as Sherry Leblanc's Fleur Knight Deck, Machine Emperor cards, and Bruno' Tech Genus deck.

Preorders are welcome to ship on September 16, 2010 at JPY5000 or US$56.90 from NCS. The first printing of TF5 includes three cards which are packed in foil: Fleur Synchron, Fleur de Chevalier, and Liberation.

PSP L@ve Once - Import Preorder

NCS Preorder Synopsis
«©NCSX» Back in the 80s, American actor Tom Hanks starred in a movie titled Splash with American actress Daryl Hannah. The gist of the film was "Boy Meets Girl" but the girl happened to be a mermaid. The PSP game L@ve Once is sort of like that.

Protagonist Sho Takashi has a family secret - his mother was a mermaid but she traded in her fins for a human form because she fell in love with Sho's father. Prior to the start of the game, Sho reflects on his childhood and reminisces about the time he saw a mermaid. As the game begins, Sho is a high school student and he's mourning the passing of his father. He goes to live with relatives and meets twin sisters who seem familiar. One of them is the mermaid he saw as a child....

Is Sho destined to breed with a mermaid? Will the mermaid kingdom approve of the potential pairing? Will there be a sequel to Splash? Some of these questions will be answered when L@ve Once ships for the PSP on Sept 30, 2010. All preorders will include a bonus Drama CD in 1:1 ratio.

TEE Saturn Logo T-Shirt - Import Preorder

NCS Preorder Synopsis
«©NCSX» Some things that we still remember from the days of the 32-bit console generation in the U.S. and Japan include:

1) Sony's "U R not e" advertising campaign in North America
2) Selling Japanese Playstation consoles at launch for about $1100 each
3) Being perturbed that Toshinden was selling better than Virtua Fighter
4) Modifying hundreds of Saturn consoles every week for months on end

The font of the Sega Saturn logo doesn't come to mind as memorable but we're reminded of it in Cospa's upcoming Saturn Logo T-Shirt where the "Sega Saturn" text is printed on the bottom of the shirt. Tuck the shirt in and the tee is no longer a "Sega Saturn Logo" shirt. Funny how that works. Preorders are welcome to ship in late Aug 2010 at JPY2800 or US$39.90.

SOTD Terminator 2 Judgment Day Candy + Collectible Figures

NCS Sale of the Day Offering: July 20, 2010
Original NCS Product Synopsis & Release Date in Japan: June 30, 2003
«©NCSX» With Terminator 3 hitting screens this summer, toy manufacturer Face revisits Terminator 2 with a candy toy set. Eight standard toys are packaged in each factory-sealed box (view the photo below, to the left) and there's also a super-secret figure (Terminator 2 endo-skeleton arm) which is randomly packaged inside a Master Case as a bonus. Please note that NCS only sells the Terminator 2 Candy Toys in a complete factory box of 10 which contains the entire set of 8 figures and two duplicates. If you're lucky, you'll receive the 8 figures, 1 duplicate, and 1 T2 endo-skeleton arm.

NCS' Terminator 2 Experience
Back in 2003, we opened up six complete boxes of the Terminator 2 toys to slake our curiosity on how the toys were allocated. Back then, toy manufacturers weren't as fair and equitable as they are today. The T2 toy manufacturer "Face" wasn't equitable. To make people buy boxes of toys in a tiresome quest to find a complete set of nine figures, Face didn't include a secret endo-skeleton arm in every factory case. They also included the same two duplicates in five of the six boxes we opened up - two Terminator Heads and two crawling Arnolds. Out of the six boxes that we opened, we got "one" secret T2 Endo-skeleton arm. Thanks, Face.

Product Condition
NCS' remaining inventory is brand new and factory boxed in the original cardboard containers. The packaging is in very good structural shape with only a few slight dings, creases, or tears caused by years of warehouse-to-warehouse transportation and storage.

Sale Offering
Pricing per factory sealed box of Terminator 2 toys is set at US$43.90 each which includes free shipping by UPS Ground within the continental United States. We'd like to hear how customers fare on the duplicates since we're pretty sure they'll match our experience. «Photo Gallery»