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The Collector"s Quest

Listen to the Collector"s Quest Podcast! Your resource for topics on game collecting, information, news, sets, variants, etc. If you collect retro games, or any video games, give us a listen!

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02:58:11

Episode 171 - Collecting the History of Mario Games

The Collector"s Quest ·

2021/07/10

In this episode we're going over the important and earliest releases, appearances, and ports of Mario games mostly from the early 80s in a new very-Tyler series called "Collecting the History of". We're talking arcades to Game & Watch to Colecovision and Atari ports.

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02:34:07

Episode 170 - E3 and Summer Announcements for Game...

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2021/06/24

We're talking about recent announcements that might interest game collectors from new Limited Run Games to the internet's mildest drama of Super Rare Games Shorts to Nintendo Special Editions to... Intellivision Amico? Someone out there is looking for an Amico physical media update, right? Also Tyler gets mad.

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02:00:36

Episode 169 - Collecting Light Gun Games (and some...

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2021/06/14

We're talking light guns from 1970s Nintendo electronic toys and arcades to Justifier variants to the PS2 Guncon set. Maybe we go on a small tangent about a certain "perfect condition" Wata game as well. Stephan back next week!

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01:43:04

Episode 168 - Six RPGs that Might Be Worth Collecting...

The Collector"s Quest ·

2021/05/29

Johnny and Tyler just want to talk about some RPGs. This isn't some top 6 list or in any order, just some RPGs that either have interesting price history to talk about or otherwise might be worth talking about because they're collectible!

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01:47:51

Episode 167 - The Market is Euphoric, Should You Sell...

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2021/05/18

With prices of many things increasing weekly, should you sell out? Should you try to sell and buy back in after "the bubble bursts"? Is there even an overall bubble? Or is it time to trade newly expensive games for bigger wants?

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02:51:58

Episode 166 - How Many Collectible Video Games Beat...

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2021/05/09

If you just bought every game for a console as it came out, how many of those games appreciated to be worth more today even after accounting for inflation? We're talking about this and what consoles have surprising metrics in this week's episode!

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01:49:42

Episode 165 - What happens if all our physical...

The Collector"s Quest ·

2021/04/24

We're discussing the CMOS battery issue that affects PS4 (and PS5) where in the far flung future it's possible that Playstation consoles won't play physical media unless they're hacked. Will this affect collecting for Playstation? Additionally, the PS3 PSN shut down... or was scheduled to for like a week and Sony since reversed course on that. We're discussing how that affects collecting physical games for the PS3.

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02:10:26

Episode 164 - NES Games Based on R-rated Movies

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2021/04/11

Tyler and Johnny are talking about collecting the set of 20-25 NES games that are somewhat inexplicably based on R-rated movies. The most adult stuff you'll see from a company that told congress Night Trap would never be on a Nintendo platform.

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02:10:25

Episode 163 - The CQ Cut: Collecting DC Comics Games

The Collector"s Quest ·

2021/03/28

In honor of Johnny and Stephan's favorite filmmaker Zack Snyder, we're talking some DC comics games, including first appearances, the mostly lack of them up until the late 80s, multiple games based on 1990 TV shows Tyler didn't know existed, and the shocking lack of Wonder Woman games.

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02:40:27

Episode 162 - Collector's Questions #1

The Collector"s Quest ·

2021/03/21

It's a mailbag episode with a slick new title! Is Super Volley Ball the Stadium Events of Sega Genesis? What are our game store pet peeves? Is it better to have a ton of loose carts or very few CIB? These questions and more on this exciting episode of CQP!

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01:59:06

Episode 161 - Rare and Collectible Zelda Games

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2021/03/07

The RAREST! For the 35th Zelda thing, Johnny and Tyler are talking about a few high dollar, low production, or just desirable Zelda releases from obscure PAL big box releases to impossibly rare club Nintendo limited editions to the widely available but endlessly in demand BOTW Master Edition.

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02:19:36

Episode 160 - Early Video Game Pack-ins

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2021/02/23

What's the earliest STUFF that ever came with a game? A little bonus that wasn't necessary to include, but they did? In this episode we're looking back at some of the earliest examples of video game pack-ins from the late 70s to the early 90s.

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02:02:46

Episode 159 - Collectible Video Games with Trading Cards

The Collector"s Quest ·

2021/02/07

While other collectible hobbies like sports or Pokemon cards are currently past the moon and leaving the solar system with cards selling for $100,000s, we're instead talking about some video games that came with trading cards that are selling for just a bit less. But man, if you can find those Symphony of the Night trading cards, hit us up!

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02:24:55

Episode 158 - What is the Most Expensive, Most Common...

The Collector"s Quest ·

2021/01/25

After somewhat raising an eyebrow at more silly auction prices, Tyler and Johnny go through all the bestselling games for early Nintendo platforms and see what are the most expensive and cheapest among them. The ultimate goal is to find the most common game that just has so much demand, it's also very expensive, but ultimately it turns into a 2021 price review of all the most popular Nintendo games. So if you haven't checked in on your N64 and Pokemon prices lately, you can be shocked along

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01:35:43

Episode 157 - NES vs. Famicom Prices

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2021/01/16

The majority of Famicom games are cheaper than their NES counterparts, but there are some interesting exceptions from games where the Famicom version is the definitive version to games that were censored for their US release. Johnny and Tyler are talking JP vs US prices and some of the reasons (as far as we know) for those differences.

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02:51:03

Episode 156 - Game Collecting in 2020 and Looking...

The Collector"s Quest ·

2021/01/06

Its our year end/beginning episode where we're talking about what we did last year, what the best and worst trends of the year were, and what we think 2021 might bring for both us personally and the hobby in general. In case you forgot, 2020 was the single craziest year in game collecting. It's been wild!

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02:06:25

Episode 155 - Five Golden Things

The Collector"s Quest ·

2020/12/21

On the fifth day of Christmas we are giving to you five golden things: five-ish collectibles that are made of solid gold (or spray paint) like Zelda carts and NWC but hopefully less obvious than that. We even discuss what Tyler considers the holy grail of gaming: Atari's physical gold and silver grail.

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01:30:50

Episode 154 - Don't Collect Video Game Food... but if...

The Collector"s Quest ·

2020/12/16

It's a feast of fetid forty-year-old food on the first episode of the CQ holiday season! We're talking about actual food people might have in their collections. Literal decades old, expired sustenance that has ceased to be. Mario Pepsi, Gunstar Heroes Fruit Roll-ups, Gamecube gum, perhaps even some rare tomato sauce. We are not personally fans of most of these items but some of them are interesting! So... maybe collect some? Gross.

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03:16:18

Episode 153 - The $1000 Modern Game Draft

The Collector"s Quest ·

2020/11/23

It's a game draft episode, where we each get $1000 to build the best possible collection by picking games one at a time! This time we're going from PS2 through the Wii U and it's very different from the vintage draft because lots of the best games ever made are like... $2. Let us know who you think ended up with the best collection at the end of the day!

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03:44:42

Episode 152 - So You Want to Collect Castlevania Games

The Collector"s Quest ·

2020/11/01

For Halloween this year Johnny, Tyler, and Stephan are collecting Castlevania games, or at least the most interesting Castlevania games from the 80s and 90s. From Famicom disk barcodes to NES hangtabs to the classic rock of this turbulent market: Rondo of Blood. We also keep the mics on for about an hour after the episode, so if you want to chill out with the CQ crew for like 4 hours, enjoy!

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