The Collector's Quest

So you want to collect iam8bit. Wait, what? Yes.

CQ 271 - Is your "CIB" good enough? by Johnny & Tyler

CQ 270 - It's time to fix your collection: Spring Cleaning by Johnny & Tyler

Finally, an episode where we can talk about Beyond Shadowgate, the second best Bomberman game, and $700 Neutopia games no one really cares about.

Two old men enumerate why collecting modern games is generally less interesting and see if it's just a nostalgia thing or the olden days really were the golden days.

We're looking at the most expensive, rarest collectible Xbox 360 games and determining if any of this stuff is worth our time in a sea of junky collectors editions.

We're talking about the best versions of games and other collecting dilemmas. Do you get the rare variant or the early variant? American or Japanese? Busted original version vs. remake with all the DLC? Nicer condition or better variant?

We're talking about every single modern game that costs $200+ (that isn't some weird release or special edition) and coming to the conclusion that not only is collecting modern games affordable, but you don't even want the games that cost this much.

Johnny takes us on a journey of collecting the "most 1980s" games, meaning games that embody pop culture of the decade like Knight Rider, Tron, and Smurfs.

We're recapping the price trends, interest trends, big sales, and how we collected in 2024. Grab the aux cable because this is 3 hours of pure, unfiltered hobby entertainment you can subject your family to while you're driving up to grandma's for Christmas in Delaware This is a complete re-upload to fix a Spotify issue. If your episode shows as 3:41:42, you already have the right file.

This podcast should be 3:41:42. If it’s 3:42:01, the last hour is out of sync and your app has an out of date file. As far as I know, only Spotify was affected. I’m keeping this file up in case you have the correct file and you’re mid episode.

We're looking a physical indie releases from 2004-2019 to find obscure, underappreciated, and usually very cheap releases of some of the most popular games.

We enter the world of gifts for gamer blog posts to discuss how terrible the affiliate link spam has become. It is maybe impossible to find genuine recommendations for gifts anymore.

An episode where we discuss common game collecting topics in general without much focus similar to CQ After Dark. Johnny wanted to call this "Tyler Talk" but I think everyone would skip an episode named Tyler Talk.

We're talking the KEY horror and Halloween games from the early days, from interesting survival horror games, to stupid the stupid obscure first appearances of Frankenstein...'s monster.

We are discussing Johnny's objective* system for separating Halloween games from horror from dark fantasy to determine the official subset of NES Halloween games.

There are a handful of Stephen King games from proto-ebooks to the official Worst Adventure Game Ever Made. They're probably from his books you haven't read for some reason.

We're talking about games you can devote years to without ever becoming the best, which is largely esports games but also chess and mahjong?

We are clicking the drop down menu and selecting Sort By Highest Price and looking at recent sealed market and Ebay sales and discussing what's on top right now.

(Reupload to fix the last 4 minutes). We're talking about budget labels like Players Choice, Greatest Hits, and Platinum Hits, which ones we find interesting, which ones are expensive, and whether any of this junk is really worth collecting.

A long episode about collecting a beloved, okay video game console.

It's CQ Shark Week. That time of year we talk about the electromechanical gun game from Jaws that once sold for $15,000 and Shark! Shark! on Intellivision which once sold for as high as $15.

It's one of those episodes where we're going to talk about the merits of the View-Master Interactive Vision, HTC Dream cell phone, and that Oregon Trail handheld thing, if those have any merits at all.

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EVERY Pokemon game. The Windows computer games, the Sega Pico Beena games, the Pokemon Mini games. But yeah, mostly the mainline handheld games that people actually care about.