Beneath this catchy headline is a listener mail episode! We're answering questions about Dreamcast, giving up our collections, shelving, the market, Ebay, and more. For the record we do intend to just incorporate listener questions into the show soon, but for now Stephan loves these shows.

Hey, it's a new episode, we're alive! We're looking back at 2019 and ahead to 2020. What's the best stuff we bought, best stuff we recorded, some thoughts on collecting trends, new goals we have. It's a long episode to make up for our absence. Sorry about the "lost" Christmas episode, it will come out sometime later!

In this episode we're talking about some gifts related to game collecting. It's not really a gift guide, it's more like talking about how other people shop for you when they want to buy you something for the collection. Best gifts, worst gifts, how to make people happy shopping for you, and some thoughts on some stuff currently out there in the mass market.

The "$100k Mario" (does that name work anymore?) was recently on Pawn Stars and we're here to fight about it. Also we use the Sonic movie as an easy segue into some collectible movie games. If you're worried there's no Atari 2600 subsets in this episode, don't worry, I got your back -Tyler.

NintendoAge got shut down and so far partially moved to GoCollect, and while you might not have been a forum member, if you listen to this show you've probably used that database. iam8bit made some new games were contractually obligated to throw under the bus. And our real topic is talking about a few games with interesting pack-in items from action figures to empty plastic bags.

We're talking about our recent trip to the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, what we found, who we saw, and Stephan's cool gameplay counselor museum and panel. After that we're talking about the definition of the word "collectible" because sometimes we throw around that we think things are and aren't collectible, so we have a short discussion on that.

Stephan, Tyler, and Johnny are talking about spooky collectible Famicom, Playstation, and Virtual Boy games that came from other countries, but I mean, mainly Japan. Come find us at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo this weekend. Stephan has his Nintendo Game Counselor panel Saturday evening, otherwise we'll just be walking around like you regular rubes!

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 to quiz each other, it's also a good way to bring up and discuss topics that won't ever get their own show, like R-Zone hardware revisions!