Dollar Store Gaming - Scott The Woz 

"For a kid on a 20 dollar a week allowance" .... Suddenly Scott's insanely free and easy stance towards spending exorbitant amounts of money on landfill makes a lot of sense

$20 a week allowance? Young Scott was really living it up

$20 a week allowance?! All I got was $1 for lunch in middle school and a “good luck!” Little Scott was living like a king!

The fact that Scott considers a $20 a week allowance a tight budget as a child is amazing to me. The only thing I ever got when I asked for an allowance was the threat of an ass-whoopin.

I vividly remember the shelves of my local five below toppling from the weight of unsold Skylanders a few years back.

"$20 allowance." Well that explains the four Wii U's.

The first line, “what do you do when you wanna play games but you’re on a budget?… find a new hobby” pretty much sums up the game industry lmao

Man, 20 dollars per week? You could buy 52 chicken shoots per year with that kind of money.

"I live in Ohio, your hobby was either that or getting shot." As an Ohioan, this is not true at all. You can also get diseases in the corn fields.

I remember my local Five Below being stocked with Infinite Warfare for $5, when Gamestop was buying used ones for $10, I bought $55 + tax worth and got back around $110

Scott introducing the concept of Mighty Number 9 being a kid's only game for an extended period of time haunts me to this day

I worked at a Pathmark from 2011-2014. At some point we landed a Gamecube copy of The Urbz and nobody ever bought it, I think it somehow got in with an order of crappy DVDs we sold in one aisle. It even got marked down over 50% off and still nobody bought it. It was like 2013 and we were trying to sell one single Gamecube game. The Wii U was brand new by then.

100% with Scott on the dollar store experience, as a young child picking things out with a very limited amount of money was fun.

"whatever Walmart doesn't eat five below will clean its plate" This video is gold

“One of my favorite pastimes as a kid was to go to the dollar store, I live in Ohio your hobby’s that or getting shot” As an Ohioan I feel this on a personal level

This is exactly how I felt going into a Poundland here in the UK. "Everything's £1 or less!!" I spent £3.50 on the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs DVD collection, and haven't been able to live it down ever since...

$20 a week?! I can’t even imagine. That sounds like paradise.

I remember seeing a copy of Mario kart Wii on a dollar three once, I may never find that golden goose again.

Obviously that condom advertising was research based, seeing as wearing ninja turtle underwear will in turn get you into a situation where condoms could be used

Scott really encapsulated what it was like when going to a store with video games was a luxury, as I kid I really only went to GameStop if my parents needed to get the vacuum repaired next door, so I grew very attached to whatever gaming scraps the grocery store sold

The most shocking revelation here was finding out Scott had a 20 dollar a week allowance like damn little 5th grader walk-in around with mad cash

"$20 a week allowance" what the fuck, I didn't realize Scott's parents were loaded.

I legit watch Scott's vids because no matter how bad I'm feeling, the dude always makes me laugh.

My craziest dollar store find was a full Guitar Hero Live box set (with game and guitar included) being sold for 4 dollars.

Scott is that guy who’ll go into a dollar store & ask the employee what the Black Friday deals are.

My local dollar general still has a copy of Thor for the DS selling for $20. They keep it behind the cash register.

When I was a kid I was at a thrift store and I found Nicktoons Unite for the GameCube for a dollar. I got hours of playtime out of it. Good times

5:08 I don’t know why, but the tone of Scott’s voice when he says “hunny” matches that or an exhausted mom.

Guy stocking the rite aid: “this crap will never sell” Scott: enters the rite aid

Can we talk about how at 5:40 he's putting down a jug of milk for just a moment? I appreciate Scott's dedication so much.

Snot the Woz dies this year….

Honestly that Sega with 80 games and being able to play games you buy for 30 bucks is a good deal.

Can't wait to buy the officially licensed Scot the Woz Monopoly™ from my local Dollar General!

Dollar Tree used to sell Wii accessories. Wiimotes wouldn’t even fit in some of them 🙃

I used to work at a Five Below. The only video game we would ever have in stock was Battleborn. There was never a moment where that one spot on the shelf in the tech section didn't have a copy of Battleborn on it

As someone who loves in Indiana the dollar store trifecta was accurate. My children always beg to go to dollar tree. They always know they'll wiggle something out of me. Usually fidgets

'20 dollars a week allowance' Imagine having an allowance in the first place.

1:22 Scott really is dedicated to these videos, he drove all the way back to a Five Below on a legit deserted island and re-stranded himself just to record a small bit of footage

For Christmas a few years back I got the Sega Genesis plug n play as a present from my dad, it's still one of my most beloved Christmas presents to date. That Christmas my dad, my sister's and I all sat in my room playing Sonic and Mortal Kombat. No Christmas yet has topped that one

I remember getting a bunch of UMD discs for PSP at the Dollar (and a quarter) Tree several years ago. Bought them all. They are still in my storage unit.

“I live in Ohio, your hobby is either that or getting shot” - Scott The coming to G4TV Woz

"We know that cause I'll be dead in three years" Judging from how dedicated Scott is to jokes I'd start making my peace

In Germany in many shops we have something called "Grabbelkisten", boxes with cheap things in them. Most in electronic stores you can get movies, music, games and other thing for just 1 to 5 Euros. There is also the "Software Pyramide" and "Green Pepper" which did just cheaper rereleases of some older games.

As an Ex-Dollar General employee, I'd like to say DG is not a dollar store, and it drives us crazy when you call it that. 😆 It USED to be one when they first opened, but as it grew and started popping up everywhere it phased out of that. Now there's just a dollar aisle.

I remember finding Kirby's Epic Yarn for $15 at a Big Lots once and I've never had the same amount of dopamine again.

Looks like Scott has Dollar Store lighting for this video

for anyone wondering the song Scott is playing at 10:41 is called "salvation" by rancid with Johnny Napalm at the Rat Cellar on easy difficulty

0:57 "Many times these stores would have mediocre and forgotten DVDs" *shows return of the king in the corner sacrilege

I have worked at 2 separate Rite Aids a few years back, and both had Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings for DS. I think they just come with the store at this point.

I like how this came out after Dollar Tree announced they're starting to sell stuff for $1.25 starting next month

1:54 I literally saw this last week at the thrift store and took a picture.

As a kid and now, the dollar store keeps being my weekend favorite stop.

The last bit was GOLD. “I spent $105 on these games at Rite Aid and found them all on eBay for $46.” Classic.

I remember back in 2016 my local Five Below had a ton of Metal Gear Rising PS3 copies. I had never played a metal gear game before and was like “wtf isn’t this game supposed to be good? Why is it here?” I just assumed it was a spinoff fans didn’t like that ended up making its way to the bargain bin. I bought it for shits and giggles and oh my god it was INSANE. Genuinely has been in my top 10 ever since. Hands down best $5 I’ve ever spent.

this video brings me back to when my local grocery store used to have a section where they would sell comics and magazines of all sorts (used to look at the game informer ones since they werent pre packaged) and they used to sell new DVD's and video games back around 2006ish. They didnt have a lot of games there and they were always behind a locked case but that was were I bought my first game with my own money being Mario Kart DS and I'm so grateful they sold it there because like Scott mentions in this video going to a gamestop was a luxury back then kinda like going to a toy's r us; still one of my favorite games to this day

Scott is like the Mr beast of Ohio. Stimulating his towns economy with 100 bucks per store

When he brought up that dollar tree raised their prices to $1.25, I felt that

I've worked at dollar tree and I can personally vouche that everything he pulled from the bag is something I've stocked there

Scott always puts a smile on my face when I'm having a bad day. Thanks man

Twenty. Dollar. A. Week. Allowance. WHAT?!

I wonder if anyone recognizes Scott while he’s recording the shelves at the dollar store

Scott: I had a $20 a week allowance My friend: I had a $10 a week allowance Me: You guys had allowances

8:19 It's precious that 50 is old to Scott.

This was my very first Scott the Woz video! Haha! So awesome to come back when I'm a huge fan! Still SO good, Scott! Love it!

My local Family Dollar had Bloodborne for $5 and I was baffled that such an amazing game was there to begin with and at such a low price, obviously I capitalized on this opportunity and bought that game without a second thought. How this Family Dollar got its hands on it is still a mystery to me.

$20 a week allowance… well, now we know. Scott was a rich kid.

Honestly, fore some of the Genesis games, I'd argue that pitching it up made it better. (Looking at you, The Ooze)

Till this day I still hit up the dollar store before going to the movie theater.

I worked for Atari/Infogrames during the end of their time in the US, doing customer tech support for the shovelware they were supporting at the time. Almost every caller had bought their game at the grocery store and I had to walk them through running the games in compatibility mode because they were so grievously old. Our leads also had us walk completely computer-illiterate people through editing their registry file too, which was terrifying.

11:33 As a Yo-Kai Watch fan myself, Scott saying "Yo-Kai Watch" will happily live in my head forever

1:19 that's what I yelled after a fake robot replaced the Arby's manager of my local Arby's

Seeing Titanfall 2 as he talked about dollar store games tore my heart in two. It deserved so much better.

5:35 i dont know why but him buying the milk made me laugh the hardest

Scott saying the words “Bakugan: Battle Brawlers” enlightens me in some way lol

I love those retro plug in system. Something is relaxing about playing old video games

Not gonna lie, the AT Games Genesis is something i always wanted to impulse buy since it just felt like something worth having given its low price, but the downsides were always enough to prevent the impulse. Nowadays if i do get something like that, i might as well go all out for the actual Genesis mini.

The Dollar Store console: The Christmas present no child wanted

_"What do you do when you wanna play games but you're on a budget?!"_ The Pirate Bay, of course.

I bought Civ III at Five Below in maybe 2004! Could have even been 2005, but I'm pretty sure Civ IV came out after. That was a genuinely good deal, and that series has brought me nearly 2 decades of value since.

My best dollar store find as a kid were the Angry Birds equivalent of Nintendo's amiibos for their mobile games! I believe they were called telepods... they were AWESOME. I also got some at the dollar store that were for the angry birds/transformsers crossover game. The telepods themselves could transform from car to bird!

Finally, a fellow dollar store dweller, this is an underappreciated art

When you realize Scott will make back every dollar he spent on these games in like a week. Props dude

As a born and raised Ohioan, Scott the Woz always makes my childhood feel validated

‘For an angry birds game, *THEY’RE FREE!* ’ Me: **muffled weeping**

I bought Tri-Force Heroes at 5 Below last year which I figured was a good price to check it out before realizing it’s practically unplayable single-player. Shockingly there were matches online but people just spammed the emotes. Plus unlocking costumes was heavily tied to playing with others and miiverse functionality that’s not accessible anymore and I started to want my $5 back.

Scott literally never misses, every video just keeps getting better

I grabbed the Sega Genesis handheld and loved that thing. It had an SD card slot so you could add more roms to it. It was awesome.

Last year I bought a used copy of Wii Sports at my local library for $2. I thought that was amazing.

can confirm dollar generals in ohio hit different

I WORKED at RITE AID when they started to carry video games. And I can tell you the worst part about it. They would run sales on those games and advertise it in the flyer, and every time we would have these old ladies calling up and coming in, asking if we had new, popular games that just came out. Which of course we didn't. And sometimes the picture in the flyer would be a popular game, and I'd get "According to your ad, you carry Mario Kart, it's right here in the ad, and I'm not leaving until I get it!" Then they wanted us to check the back, then check other stores which we had no way of doing. Then complain about false advertising, how far they traveled, etc. It was a headache.

Seeing Scott even MENTIONING Yo-kai watch is a dream come true

Man I remember my old locally owned dollar store had Call of Duty: Ghosts on ps3 for $59.99 In 2019.

I had one of those Sega Genesis emulators from a Dollar General when I was a kid. That thing was the whole reason I got into gaming at all! I think some of my favorite games on there the filler puzzle games, actually.

When I was little, my dad randomly bought for me and my sister The Dog Island on PS2 at a 7/11. And I do think it is genuinely a very fun kids game and I really enjoyed it :)

I absolutely died of laughter at “That’s why people love Adderall!”

5:37 when Scott talks about milk and cuts back to him with a gallon of milk, that gives the exact energy every episode of Xavier Renegade Angel has

I found FFXV and Life is Strange for XB1 at Family Dollar for 7 bucks each. Had to dig through a lot of crap to find them but they were definitely great finds.

"Find a new hobby." I was taking a sip of coffee at the time. Damn you! 😆

I used to own one of those Genesis systems from Walmart when I was younger. We were poor, and it's what kept me entertained. Thank you for reminding me about those good memories.

Recently me and my brother were looking in a movie section at a local Walgreens. They actually had surprisingly big name newer movies…… and also 4 copies of Norm of the North on DVD