A basketball fan and a guy who doesn't watch sports cover four reasons you might collect perhaps the least collectible genre of video games.

Or as good as it might realistically get. Near term economic uncertainty aside, we're discussing some current and future factors that might have us looking back on today and saying "I wish I bought that before it blew up". Tools, charts, and ease of access to detailed information are unusually poor but there are numerous startups trying to improve this. The days of CIB Nintendo games costing 1.5x what cartridges do, let alone near mint copies, are NEVER coming back so it might be time to plan realistic future goals rather than hope good-stuff prices somehow return to 2008.

Collecting is a weird hobby where the top things are often the top things just because they're the top things. We talk about, and disagree, on what some of the top things should and shouldn't be.

We're talking about going straight into the matrix in the most classic fashion: with crappy little paper 3D glasses. We're talking about the most interesting games (and virtually every game) that includes pack-in 3D glasses.

We're talking about the first 10-ish Saturn games we'd collect at any budget because of all consoles maybe the US Saturn library isn't the best one to be poking around random cheaper games looking for gems.

We discuss the state of the video-screen laden amusement ride industry for 20 minutes, then go on to discuss a few psychological concepts that entrap us collectors like the sunk cost fallacy and endowment effect.

We're going deep into one of Johnny's niches: weird, weird Disney stuff. From various first appearances to inexplicable high quality Japanese exclusives to strangely rad computer games where Mickey has a gun.

We're talking about digital games, mainframe games, lost games, and all manner of video games that we can't own that make our collections incomplete.

Hey, this one is a real episode! We're talking about the first 10 games we'd each start our Sega Genesis collection with, and what version of each. You'll never guess how many times Altered Beast on our lists!

Learn what we know about Neo Geo. (This is the April Fools joke).