If you've ever said "Games are getting too expensive" are you talking about games you care about that matter, random hyped expensive trash, or the cost of trying to own literally every video game? The best games to collect are more affordable than virtually any other hobby, especially if your goal isn't to buy EVERYTHING. You'll never own a Babe Ru…

We're talking about game conventions and our thoughts on attending them for both commerce and sociability in preparation for the upcoming Midwest Gaming Classic. Sorry for the late post, I've been very sick this past week!Johnny & Tyler

We're talking about every collecting category except video games: coins, stamps, comics, toys, cereal, etc. and what the best video game things in those categories are that come to mind. Over 3 minutes of research was done looking up video game related Funko Pop prices for this episode before we couldn't take it anymore.…

We're talking about a few controversial games we haven't yet discussed to death including perhaps the first controversial video game in 1973's Gotcha to Wolfenstein 3D to whatever Gal Gun is. This episode is banned in Germany for multiple reasons.Johnny & Tyler

We're discussing some of potential "oh I wish I just got that when it was $8" games of 2000s and up. And also $3000 World of Warcraft server blades, which are sure to be a timeless collectible as well.Johnny & Tyler

Two out of touch relics who collect old video games debate the merits of whether you should spend $64.99 on a reissued copy of NES Felix the Cat by Limited Run Games. No. No you shouldn't.Johnny & Tyler

We are discussing and rating how worth it some of the "rarest" hype games are in game collecting from NWC to Pokemon Box to, for some reason, Devil's Third.Johnny & Tyler

We're looking back at 2023: Our collecting goals, the price trends, the hobby trends, and the biggest sales of the year.Johnny & Tyler

A.k.a "Ten Lords a Leaping" for the holiday season but I don't want people to skip the episode based on the title. We're going over an overview of platform games before Super Mario Bros., including some important but nearly forgotten games like Miner 2049er and Pac-Land that were swept away by Mario.…

It's a big episode of advice for new collectors like setting goals, avoiding hype, budging, and avoiding becoming a hoarder who thinks your pile of mass produced media is equivalent to a savings account.Johnny & Tyler

We're going over the games, books, gadgets, and sundries of the season while Tyler tries to drag us into tangents. Be sure to ask your family for boxes to easily store all those bulk games you've been buying!Johnny & Tyler

Due to unforeseen circumstances this month we don't have a new traditional show yet, but we do have a long After Dark conversation we had with Joe about NES variants. So if you're wondering who "Joe" is or want to hear about weird stickers and date codes on Nintendo games, this is the episode.Johnny & Tyler

We try our very best not to pick a Castlevania game as the spookiest, Halloween-iest game on every platform except the BBC Micro.Johnny & Tyler

We're kicking off the season talking about the rare, the obscure, and the categories of games you might not even know exist. We chose some interesting spooky games to discuss this episode, and they just happen to be the most 90s games ever with lots of FMV games, oddly shaped PC big boxes, and Goosesbumps.…

Taking in a blend of collectibility, history, relevance, influence, and Tyler's personal taste, we each come up the first 10 PS2 games we'd start our collections with. Is this the first time we talk about the Trance Vibrator?? 😳Johnny & Tyler

Hide the kids and perhaps hide your ears. We are talking about porn games, from delightfully quirky Atari games, to the dark, dark origins of some of your favorite Japanese companies, to longtime grails like the Panesians.Johnny & Tyler

We are here to reiterate that unless you have a plan to corner a collectibles market, drive hype and speculation, and sell at a price determined by your business plan, you are not INVESTING in video games by filling your room up with boxes of PS2 games that might be worth more one day. Also maybe max your 401k and take stock of how those $10-20 pur…

McDonalds is one of the most American things ever, but the Famicom game Donald Land is a whole McDonalds platformer that never got released in America. We're talking about western licenses that never got western releases. You know, the import stuff you can look at and go "I can't read Japanese but at least I know what Back to the Future is!".…

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.Johnny & Tyler

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 …

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.Johnny & Tyler

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.Johnny & Tyler

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.Johnny & Tyler

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.Johnny & Tyler

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.Johnny & Tyler

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.Johnny & Tyler

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!Johnny & Tyler

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

We're talking about the Sisyphusian cycle of finding new sets, new interests, new consoles and never being done with acquisitions. Is there ever a point where we are done and happy rather than burnt out?Johnny & Tyler

We look back at the 30s, 40s, and 50s and only the absolute apex of pop culture media is well known by the average person. Within our lifetime, the vast majority of the dozens (or hundreds) of games we all thinks of as unyielding classics will discarded to the unremembered realm of obsolete media. We're taking a look through the lens of the not-too…

Johnny does an Ask Me Anything session with members of the CQ Discord. This is not a standard episode, it is not collector focused, it is just me telling personal stories that have very little to do with gaming and answering questions about why, how, and what I collect.Johnny & Tyler

We dive into Gamecube and the world of $1,000 Mickey Mouse sports games, impossible to find Pokemon games, and one of Nintendo's most vibrant lineups.Johnny & Tyler

We're talking about collecting some of the most important and influential games of all time (that are possible to own, sorry The Sumerian Game fans). We only have 14 games, so get ready to write in with outrage that we didn't include Final Fantasy VII or Bloons Tower Defense 6!Johnny & Tyler

A primer to give the ground work on how to collect Funko Pops. Listen to the Dialogue Alley Podcast where we go into detail about Harry Potter Funko Pop collecting.https://www.dialoguealley.com/podcastJohnny & Tyler

We're talking about games and merch you could only acquire via the antiquated, arcane, annoying process of sending away for it by mail, you know like the way your grandma used to order things from magazines.Johnny & Tyler

We're looking back at how and what COOL GUYS collected 15-20 years ago when we both started collecting. Before anyone cared about Hagane, Left Bros, and the yet-to-be-found sticker sealed Mario, everyone simply knew that unlicensed NES porn games would forever be the most desirable collectible games forever. A lot has changed.…

We're looking at how we did in 2022. Did we achieve goals? Did we fail with bad purchases? Did we FOMO? What happened in the market? If you don't care how we're personally doing as collectors this probably isn't the episode for you!Johnny & Tyler

Wii wish you a Merry Christmas with a marathon length episode about perhaps the most popular, least collectible Nintendo console. Does it perhaps have more depth than you originally thought?? Or is it basically the small pile of games people care about and 1000 games no one does.Johnny & Tyler

In a world where collecting for disc-based consoles is more popular than ever, we're going back to basics to discuss in our opinion the ten most collectible CIB SNES games, major variants, and some other cool games besides.Johnny & Tyler

Check the notes below for a list of most things we discuss -->BOOKS:The JRPG Book ($50)HardcoreGaming101 Books (~$25)Game Engine Black Blook series ($35)The Making of Prince of Persia ($23)Video Game History in 64 Objects ($25)Sierra Collectors Quest I ($100)Family Bits Vol. 1 ($35-65)NES Oddities ($40)The History of Sunsoft Vol. 1 ($35)HOMEBREW:Va…

Oh baby that clickbait. We're talking about the tastes, preferences, and shifting demographics of the game collecting scene and perhaps how "retro game conventions" would be better titled "video game conventions". Also, unrelated, the sealed market is a dumpster fire right now.Johnny & Tyler

What a horrible night to have a curse, Tyler is ill so Johnny goes it alone and talks about modern horror / spooky games you can collect that might be collectible in the future. Do You Like FMV and Limited Print Games or do both of those things scare you? Either way, that is what is discussed.Johnny & Tyler

We're talking about the history of horror movie licensed games, going back to Atari's Shark Jaws in 1975, a rip off of Jaws they weren't able to actually get the legal rights to. We're also talking about Magic's crazy new $999 anniversary box, the PRGE auction being on Whatnot, and more. But you know, mostly horror movies.…

CQ takes on the basic laws of economic supply and demand, surely we will win this fight. People are paying too high or too low prices for some things just because Pricecharting says so. Too many collectible video games of varying subjective collectible value are crammed into the same price category and it doesn't make sense to us.…

No genre is truly dead, but some genres are kind of dead, at least in the modern gaming landscape. We're talking about collecting some of the earliest and most prototypical examples of games from genres like rail shooters, point and click adventures, and traditional dungeon crawlers.Johnny & Tyler

We promise it's not just JP: Operation Genesis and Dino Park Tycoon. There's good stuff! Note that if the episode title no longer includes the phrase "Totally Cretaceous!", Johnny went and edited the episode title. -TylerJohnny & Tyler

We are going through the standard, sacred 677+91 list of US NES games and reconsidering some DOES IT COUNT situations using new constraints. Everyone get ready to delete Punch-Out!! features Mr. Dream from your lists!Johnny & Tyler

The three of us all started as garbage men and set collectors but we're talking about how our collecting mindset and what we've chased after has changed over time.Johnny & Tyler

Ever the CQ topic, we're talking about organizing game list data, how hard it is to do, defining criteria, and letting your database be flexible with your changing opinions. Is it me, or is just the concept of a simple defined list of things to collect something uniquely nuanced and difficult to our hobby?…

We're talking about the ten NES games each of us would buy if we were starting over from zero and how much we would budget for them. No price limits, no compromises. We got a big insurance payout and we're each getting what we think are the best version of the best things. Only one of us chose a Battle Kid game. Guess which one!…