I usually keep a photocopy of this game record to show people some of the things I have to do in recording games. The original game record is on one page but what is special is that it was published using Chinese numbers, which is just a little pain to have to learn.
The Castle Games collection was published as a boxed set of ten books, with the traditional “butterfly” binding. I remember walking back into my hotel in Tokyo, laden down with books, and the receptionists looked a little curiously at them. When I showed them the Castle Games books (it was, I think, the only item I had which was new and not dusty and shabby) they were amazed at how beautiful the books were and that a foreigner would be interested in such things. One time in flying out of Tokyo I had a 30 kilo baggage allowance but my main suitcase weighed in at 40 kilos, mostly books. I was lucky that the airline was forgiving!
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