The Collector's Quest

Johnny and Tyler are talking about the recent, highly publicized $100k Mario sale, the circumstances surrounding it, and how it might affect the hobby. This story blew up to every mainstream news outlet but we're hoping to give a bit more detail and also correct a couple misconceptions that are out there.

We're talking about organization this week: shelves, spreadsheets, apps, and whether you should put your Turbo games in color order (you should). Everyone does it differently, so hopefully you can pick up some tips, or let us know some of your own.

It's 2019, so we're taking a quick look back and how we collected in 2018, setting goals for 2019, and we're also talking about two conventions that each of us visited this year: MAGFest and Retro City Festival.

We are those guys on your block that keep their Christmas decorations up into the first week of January. If you want to keep the holiday spirit alive on this last day before you really have to start getting into the swing of things in the office tomorrow here are 12 Christmasy video game collectibles in this last hurrah for the holiday season.

Way back before the podcast, I had a blog, and for a few of my blogs, I made audio recordings. The year was 2011 and I was writing and speaking about Trade Etiquette. Most of it is still relevant today, everytime you hear Forum, think Instagram instead.

In this episode we're telling some of our shipping horror stories and recounting our worst experiences from USPS to U-Haul. You can choose to learn something from each of these tales, or you can just enjoy the schadenfreude if you'd like. No boxes in bubble mailers this time. We promise.

Collectors Edition #1 we talk to Carly aka AllThePrettyBooks on Instagram about collecting Harry Potter books. Collector's Editions are special episodes of the podcast where we step outside the realm of video game collecting and talk to other collectors and learn about their hobby

It's the episode you've been waiting for! Johnny, Tyler, and Stephan are talking about the collectible aspects of the NES from sets to black box games to screw variants to an overlong discussion about the Mike Etler list that none of us actually used in the 90s. Maybe you'll even learn something from all this!

Steve Torres joins us again and shares with us the trails and tribulations of Opening a new store, Running Arcades, Retro City Fest 2019 info, and a Retailers Perspective on "The Bubble".

We're talking about Sony's odd, seemingly cheaped out choices for the PS1 Classic and what they probably should be, even if it meant fewer games or an increased price. We're also talking about our recent trip to the Portland Retro Gaming Expo and all the fancy things we got there.

Johnny, Tyler, et al (Stephan) are talking about good and bad horror games, and some which are perhaps surprisingly so! The scary game train keeps on rolling all October and we will use wordplay to suit our purposes of talking about more of them! Don't forget to find us at PRGE in just a few days too!

We're talking about 11 collectible Halloween games that we wanted to talk from Atari to Xbox about including super rare variants, Joe Lieberman's furor over zombies, and the pricey game that Johnny's dog once ate.

Tyler, Johnny, and Stephan are talking about 2018, the year of the mini console. Nintendo, Sega, SNK, Sony, and even whatever form Commodore still exists in are all putting out tons of successful standalone mini consoles full of the games they've been trying to sell digitally for the past decade. So we're going to talk about them!

In this episode Tyler, Johnny, and the returning Stephan Reese are seeing who can build the best video game collection with $1000 in a snake draft format. It's collecting, it's gameplay, it's personal taste, so we're seeing who ends up with the best list in the end. Oh, and it's our 100th episode! Horray!

Tyler and Johnny are talking about wasting money in game collecting. Not just things that have no value, but things we overpay for and getting caught up buying things that we can't ascribe as much value to down the line. If you have objects lining your shelves you wish could just be converted back into the cash you paid for them so you can buy the big thing you really want, let us know if we misse...

Johnny and Tyler are answering questions and discussing topics sent in by listeners for the first time. We talk about how to deal in the hobby with friends, family, and forum rivals. We might make this a smaller segment in other shows too, so be sure to find us on Instagram or elsewhere and send us questions or topics to discuss on the show.

Johnny and Tyler are talking about collecting for the original Xbox: What's in the US set, what variants and special editions there are, what's rare, what's pricey, and what we just find interesting about a console with an ever dwindling number of exclusive games, even in 2018! Also Tyler said he has 768 games in his list when he meant 868. Whoops. The show was updated around 8:14.

We're talking prices today, specifically what the most economical way to approach buying a full set is. In this episode we take a look at 3 sample sets of games (top shelf, uncommon, and super common) and see how well you would have made out putting the same amount of money into each type over the course of 18 months. No guessing and conventional wisdom here. We see clear differences not only betw...

In the first of a new series, Johnny and Tyler are talking about how people collect for the Sega Genesis. We're talking about what's out there, licensed, unlicensed, aftermarket, and otherwise, along with what's expensive, what drives prices, and just an overview in general of collecting the console. Tyler also insists on turning the conversation towards Maniac Mansion and point and click adventur...

In this episode Johnny and Tyler are talking about the things that just get on their nerves in the world of game collecting, from shady sellers to gatekeeping collectors.

I take a look back at Microcast 3 and Episode 66 to see if the video game collectors market crashed, or to see if it did pretty much what we anticipated.

We're back talking about the recent iam8bit $100 Mega Man repros. You all know how much we love the Street Fighter II 30th Anniversary Cart. This is a balanced discussion about a great product that neither of us would ever buy. We also go on a small tangent about forums and collecting communities. Let us know how many copies of Mega Man X you bought chasing the glow in the dark variant!

With decades of video game history behind us, the terms retro and modern are losing meaning. We've got world renowned game and comic collector Erik AKA Excitebyte games who's going to talk with us about how we can start to think about periods in video gaming in terms of more meaningful eras.

Let me tell you something brother... Finally CQ is about to get Raw on some wrestling games. Also, whatcha gonna do when Johnny runs wild on some recent Sega announcements, Jack? And Tyler has two words for CD-i Ebay sellers: suck it! Ahhhhhhhh, what a rush!

In this long episode of Collector's Quest, Johnny and Tyler talk about the Wiiware shutdown, digital ownership, Limited Run Games and all of the copycat publishers, a string of significant Ebay sales recently, and a whole bunch more.