The Collector's Quest

Does anyone remember the Wii U? People are out there spending $1000s for certain Wii U games. Some games have doubled in price since late 2021. SINCE LATE 2021. Since no one has talked about it in 4 years, we're talking about some of the rare and obscure collectible stuff on Wii U.

What will game companies to try to sell us to put on shelves once console physical media truly dies? Download codes with tchotchkes, some weird NFT thing, nothing at all? We're also talking about how companies like Konami are fleecing collectors in other collectibles with $1000 MSRP trading cards and wondering about super "high end" modern games and if we'll ever see them.

We're looking back at the year where many games doubled in price... again, continuing trends from 2020, best, worst, and shameful buys, best and worst trends, and probably more because this show is very long.

Nightmare On My Shelf by Johnny & Tyler

For the holiday season, we're talking about a bunch of games that came with pack-in toys, books, and novelties, the collectibility of these types of games on N64, and if there's a modern day equivalent to game collecting knick knacker in chief: Working Designs.

As a Hanukkah gift to the people desperate for any scrap of info from Wata games, they dropped the report of at least what sealed NES games they've graded. We're going through it to find any surprises and talking about split reactions to the pop report. Somehow, there are simultaneously tons of sealed NES games that will crash the market yet everything is also so rare it's all going to the Bitcoin moon.

For this year's Black Friday blowout we're focused on some interesting, popular, and historic complete in box games you can get for ten whole bucks! If you're only focused on the trendiest games, the best stuff may seem unaffordable so we're talking about some good, ultra-affordable stuff anyone can add to their collection.

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!