The Collector's Quest

13 Collectible Halloween Games! For Halloween! Console games! PC games! Apple II games that were only sold in ziploc baggies! We have it all in this episode, except really just 13 games we wanted to talk about.

It's the 20 years in the making Dreamcast collecting primer episode of Collector's Quest, important games, variants, rarity, pricey games, all that stuff. We dig up everything we can that would be interesting to collect on DC, but even then it ends up getting compared to the N64. What could these two consoles with limited, inexpensive libraries and bad controllers possibly have in common?

On this show we've got 30 game collecting trivia questions we're asking each other from variants to launch titles to box art. And we're trying to keep it a little real here, not well known facts like "What is the Famicom game that SMB2 is based on?". Play along at home and let us know how much smarter you are on the spot than we are at the very thing we talk about week in and out! While it was fun...

Somewhere in the range of $100,000 of video games were stolen from Trade-N-Games. We're talking a bit about that and home security. Also Tyler made a video about some high end game companies that a couple people didn't like which was removed from NintendoAge and we talk about that. Also also, we invited Deniz from Wata Games to respond to video and talk about community engagement and some misconce...

Johnny and Tyler have argued over what the "true" first print of something is, until Johnny brought up the different between an edition and a print to Tyler and now they can exist in harmony and use correct terminology going forward! In this episode we're talking for just a bit about the difference between editions and prints as it relates to video games and collecting history. It was supposed to...

It's a mailbag episode and we have all sorts of topics from continuing discussion on the crazy, drop-of-a-hat Sonic 1 speculation, to where we cut off our collecting, and we even have an impromptu So You Want To Collect... episode within here for an entire console. Also why are we always wrong about first prints? Aren't we supposed to be a source of trusted information?

In this serious, hard hitting episode, we're running through a bunch of holiday dates and going over games you can post on social media to celebrate, as you do. It's very serious. GoCollect bought GameValueNow too! Is that good? Bad? Did anyone really care? Also Stephan continues to buy the entire company of Nintendo brick by literal brick.

The idea for this episode was to talk about some bad games that have little intrinsic value, but some amount of cachet in the collecting world, basically terrible games that collectors buy for *reasons*. You know, like Stadium Events. But we all kind of interpreted this episode in a different way, so some of us might be talking about questionably "bad" games... such as good games. Fixed 10 seconds...

In this show we're each talking about a few games that used to be worth a lot more money than they are now. This could be due to shifting interests, remakes, or new copies coming to market. We talk about Poop Slinger too but that's TOTALLY not related to the topic. Totally.

In this episode we're mostly continuing our last discussion and talking about the future of gaming collecting, changing attitudes towards what is important to collect, set collecting, speculation, the physical space needed to for collections full of bulk, modern games, art... The episode started out as the rising importance of pure demand vs. rarity in game prices, but we kind of go everywhere. If...

We're discussing the swings the game collecting hobby is taking. While cart prices are slowly cooling off this year, we've got record sales in the high end market, a new big auction house trying to capture that high end market, the specter of the Comic Book Man looming, black box mania, the death of physical media... And of course the cherry on top a new iam8bit multicart. It's a long one so if yo...

Tyler and Stephan are back with a bang talking about surely the hottest vintage console on the block, the Magnavox Odyssey 2: a console notable for having multiple loose SNES games that cost more than the entire CIB library! We're talking about why we've each collected it, some interested subsets within the library, rare games, all that, so join us! Update: Friend of the show @VGCollectaholic clar...

In this episode Johnny, Tyler, and Stephan are discussing a few games that share the same name but are entirely different games (and which one might the most collectible among them). We're doing a few big SNES vs. Genesis type deals, but also discussing arcade PCBs and Tiger LCD games as if anyone asked for that. Also don't forget to ask Johnny for an invite to the Pirates of Dark Water Rulzz club...

On this game show-ish episode, Johnny is asking Tyler and Stephan opinion-based questions and he's going to judge which answer he likes more. We'll have to justify our opinions on CIB vs loose collecting and perhaps even NWC vs. Stadium Events. Johnny says it's like the show Around the Horn which I (Tyler) have never heard of, so you'll have to take his word on that one.

In this episode we're responding to listener submitted topics and questions. We asked for these a couple weeks ago via Instagram but feel free to send us questions and topics so we can do this again in future. We're talking about Stephan's new NWC, worst purchases we've ever made, the hardest system to collect, and other such things.

We're doing a whole episode on what counts as part of a "complete set" and how people go about making their lists. It goes far beyond just what's licensed or what's unlicensed, we're talking about how people count certain kinds of budget releases, but not others, how we handle box sets, multipacks, improved re-releases, republished games, all sorts of nitty gritty, and importantly we talk about wh...

We're talking about collecting(mostly) US Sega Saturn games this week, from what's in the set, to rarities, to prices, to uncommon games that might not get enough coverage(spoilers, there aren't many!). Stephan is also talking about his recent undumped uWc Wrestling prototype pickup that received wide coverage and led to a bunch of new listeners. Welcome if this is your first or second episode!

We're talking with Deniz Kahn, the President of Wata Games, about certification, grading, and where the collector's market for video games may be headed. If you're not about encapsulating your games and think they're only meant to be played, we're still talking about Wata's educational efforts like their recent comprehensive NES black box guide, and tackling the classic issues like NWC vs Stadium...

Johnny, Tyler, and Stephan are here talking about some cool game variants you might not know about. Some are worth $100s and some are less than 10 bucks, you just have to be able to find them first. Variants are hot on the mind with the sticker seal Mario that just sold, so even though we recorded this show before that sale, we're on topic!

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.