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.

Reupload with fixed out-of-sync audio (Only relevant if you downloaded this in the first 30 or so minutes it was up on 12/19).

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.