The Collector's Quest

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!

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 misconceptions on forums.

It's a long show! Even Tyler was exhausted at the end and he keeps trying to make us go 4 hours.

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 be a Microcast but we stretched it out to an hour just for you.

Oh also, a possible answer to the clickbait title question is TOTALLY "neither"!

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 of missing audio!