The Collector's Quest

We're talking about what the GRAILS are. Do people still overuse the term. Is it worth even saving up for them? Why don't we have the discipline to get them?

Happy Halloween! We're talking about collecting the history of survival horror from pre-Resident Evil obscure computer games, to the game that changed the genre forever in the 2000s, to RE1 itself!

Number 7 is so spooky you might pass out!! It's our annual Halloween game collecting episode, with some of our most obscure and interesting picks yet. Have you been waiting for the first episode where we talk about a Dragon 32/64 game? Because this is it!

We're talking with director and Sega collector Edward Payson about his upcoming film Rarity: Retro Game Collecting in The Modern Era! We're also picking 3 games we'd keep if we had to start our collections over, talking some Atari porn games, and mooooore.

It's Batman day! We're talking games based on Batman: The Animated Series aka The Adventures of Batman and Robin. A bunch of games with a same name that are different games, some have unappreciated collectability, and a couple games with rad music.

We're talking about collecting the cheap stuff. There are different collecting categories and different ways of thinking you can use to find interesting games to collect that aren't some NES black box hangtab that costs $100s now. Find your own niche and avoid the crowds!

We're mostly talking about the Karl Jobst video on market manipulation and alleged fraud in the graded games market. If you haven't watched that video, go Google him and watch that first.

3 hours of collecting Hu Cards, pumping Soldier Blade, and dunking on Disney's Talespin: CQ attempts to find collecting nuance in a console where most people struggle to put together a library of less than 100 games.

So you finished the NES set (or... the licensed US cart only NES set minus SE). What can you do now in the hobby? We're talking things you can buy to better your set or things you can do to enjoy your collection without spending money once you've reached one of your goals!

As very requested, we're discussing recent insane auction prices for graded games, who might've bought them and with what motivation, and talk high end market trends and how it might affect the real world game collecting market.

Hi friends, quick update that the show is going back to an explicit rating and not bleeping swears. Not that CQ had the most kid-friendly language even bleeped, but this does make editing easier, is in line with other popular shows, will help the show come out on time.

In this episode we're going over the important and earliest releases, appearances, and ports of Mario games mostly from the early 80s in a new very-Tyler series called "Collecting the History of". We're talking arcades to Game & Watch to Colecovision and Atari ports.

We're talking about recent announcements that might interest game collectors from new Limited Run Games to the internet's mildest drama of Super Rare Games Shorts to Nintendo Special Editions to... Intellivision Amico? Someone out there is looking for an Amico physical media update, right? Also Tyler gets mad.

We're talking light guns from 1970s Nintendo electronic toys and arcades to Justifier variants to the PS2 Guncon set. Maybe we go on a small tangent about a certain "perfect condition" Wata game as well. Stephan back next week!

Johnny and Tyler just want to talk about some RPGs. This isn't some top 6 list or in any order, just some RPGs that either have interesting price history to talk about or otherwise might be worth talking about because they're collectible!

With prices of many things increasing weekly, should you sell out? Should you try to sell and buy back in after "the bubble bursts"? Is there even an overall bubble? Or is it time to trade newly expensive games for bigger wants?

If you just bought every game for a console as it came out, how many of those games appreciated to be worth more today even after accounting for inflation? We're talking about this and what consoles have surprising metrics in this week's episode!

We're discussing the CMOS battery issue that affects PS4 (and PS5) where in the far flung future it's possible that Playstation consoles won't play physical media unless they're hacked. Will this affect collecting for Playstation? Additionally, the PS3 PSN shut down... or was scheduled to for like a week and Sony since reversed course on that. We're discussing how that affects collecting physical...

Tyler and Johnny are talking about collecting the set of 20-25 NES games that are somewhat inexplicably based on R-rated movies. The most adult stuff you'll see from a company that told congress Night Trap would never be on a Nintendo platform.

In honor of Johnny and Stephan's favorite filmmaker Zack Snyder, we're talking some DC comics games, including first appearances, the mostly lack of them up until the late 80s, multiple games based on 1990 TV shows Tyler didn't know existed, and the shocking lack of Wonder Woman games.

It's a mailbag episode with a slick new title! Is Super Volley Ball the Stadium Events of Sega Genesis? What are our game store pet peeves? Is it better to have a ton of loose carts or very few CIB? These questions and more on this exciting episode of CQP!

The RAREST! For the 35th Zelda thing, Johnny and Tyler are talking about a few high dollar, low production, or just desirable Zelda releases from obscure PAL big box releases to impossibly rare club Nintendo limited editions to the widely available but endlessly in demand BOTW Master Edition.

What's the earliest STUFF that ever came with a game? A little bonus that wasn't necessary to include, but they did? In this episode we're looking back at some of the earliest examples of video game pack-ins from the late 70s to the early 90s.

While other collectible hobbies like sports or Pokemon cards are currently past the moon and leaving the solar system with cards selling for $100,000s, we're instead talking about some video games that came with trading cards that are selling for just a bit less. But man, if you can find those Symphony of the Night trading cards, hit us up!

After somewhat raising an eyebrow at more silly auction prices, Tyler and Johnny go through all the bestselling games for early Nintendo platforms and see what are the most expensive and cheapest among them. The ultimate goal is to find the most common game that just has so much demand, it's also very expensive, but ultimately it turns into a 2021 price review of all the most popular Nintendo game...