Get Your Game Collection RIGHT with Uncle Derek | Office and Game Room Tour | SSFF 

"I just want dumb stuff, and, that's what's important to me." - The Man Himself Uncle Derek 😁

Game RU-vidrs are keeping IKEA in business with all those Billy shelves 😜

I go to the one local retro game convention once a year and that's where I get most of my collection. I'm well aware that the prices are ripoffs 99% of the time which is why I keep away from collecting the rest of the year, but the experience of being able to walk around a giant showroom floor full of nothing but cool stuff like that and randomly stumbling across something that catches my eye is well worth it to me.

I got a chuckle out of Derek saying he collects Just Dance. I work at Value Village where my job is to sort/price books and media. I get so many copies of Just Dance I need to make a drinking game out of it.

No better way to start the weekend than with a new SSFF vídeo! ✨

I can’t express how much of the I LOVE DUMB STUFF sentiment connects with me and I’m sure many others in a way I could never verbalize till I found your lovely channel.

Are you kidding? I remember listening to starship amazing in high school a decade ago, and this is how I found out that Derek is also this Derek. What the hell.

Such a fun video. I love how you don’t just collect to collect but you collect whatever you want

Cool setup. I'm a HVAC technician and if you're worried about the humidity I would strongly suggest an active dehumidifier. I live at the west coast of Norway and I can pull about a liter of moisture from the air every day. In Norway they cost about 200-300$ so I'm expecting it to be somewhat cheaper in the US. Most models let you set your preferred humidity level (around 30-40% is recommended). Some models even auto drains the water if you have a drainhole nearby.

I am so happy that you still have the burger glasses. I doubt you'll remember, but I was actually the one who sent those to you all those years ago and it genuinely makes me smile that they're still around in the background after all these years!

The way you got your Reggie signature is the exact same way I got a photo with Jack Black at a Tenacious D show in 2001. Only it was with a film camera and when I got it developed he was flipping me off.

Man i dont know what it is, but watching your guys' videos really just brighten my day. It really is awesome to see what you guys do what you do and your MTV Cribz really sated my curiosity of how you guys do all of it in your living space.

I'd love to hear you and Scott Wozniac compare and contrast your collecting priorities and gripes. Perhaps a future podcast?

The thrill of the hunt and finding weird things is what I loved most about collecting, but as you said sadly a lot of the deals and finds have dried up in recent years. I now try to mostly only ever get games at conventions.

What a Guy 😎Your attitude and youtube persona are so damn refreshing in this shitstorm of a modern world. Keep it up HVGN!

I simply was just watching your Konami beat-em up delisted video (SHEER MINUTES AGO), thinking "I wonder what their game room looks like." Then finding this and it being two hours old. What delightful (and fateful) circumstances!

A couple of years ago my town got a small thrift store and they have a set price for dvds and video games, they're all 1 dollar doesn't matter what the thing is. although they don't often get games the first time i went there they had paper mario: the thousand-year door and to this day it's still the best purchase i made.

I just finished re organizing all my game shelves with the double stacking trick you explained in this video. Genius move, i have so much more space now for my collection to grow. Thanks for the tip👍

After considering various media shelves, I ended up just building my own custom bookcases with adjustable shelves. It took a while, but it was a fun DIY project, and I was able to make it the exact depth I needed. Though when it came to the TV stand I just went and bought one from Big Lots. LOL

If you want to hear Producer Grace and Uncle Derek lose trust in each other in real time, here’s a link to Stop Skeletons From Podcasting: www.patreon.com/posts/ssfp-episode-72-69580234/

I've actually paused your videos so many times during camera shots just to see your collection! Thank you for the insightful video ♥

This is great stuff as always D! I hope to do a room tour video someday when I have my collection set up. I mean, man, I just got so much Waterworld (1995) merch, it needs to be seen!

Back in 2018, I got myself a cheap media shelf, and although it wasn’t the best it was quite helpful in growing my slowly expanding game collection, I’m glad I got it out of the storage and got my mom’s cousin to help me fix it, cause with how my gaming collection is now, it would be hard to just keep in place that Isn’t a nice shelf .

I love this because it reminds me of why I got back into collecting, and started selling off a bunch of things I kept hanging on to because of no other reason but collector value. I'm starting my N-gage collection now, and the fact that it's such a weird system makes it more special to me even if its worthless by conventional collector standards. Its just refreshing to see people collect stuff to play and not just to horde. Also I have that Doom cover art too. I have no idea where I got it.

Man this really makes me wish i still had all my old games. All my Saturn, Mega Drive and Dreamcast stuff, i had SOOOO many Dreamcast games (SKies of Arcadia, Power Stone 1+2, CvS 2) But about a decade ago i was on really hard times and just had to sell almost all my old stuff. Now that i'm in a much better place i really wanna get back on my Dreamcast collection!

Thanks for sharing! It is great to see a great collection with so many stories. It's like how I like to build my collection. I find this way more interesting vs just showing big walls of tons of games for no reason other than to have them. Those collections are cool in their own way but your stories make it special.

I love how you double stacked those book shelves. I've been looking at my shelves trying to figure out if I need to do something or put something in storage but you just solved my issue! I'm taking empty tissue containers and putting cardboard on top to build my risers but it's the same concept and it's costing me nothing because I'm using stuff I already have on hand. Just gotta blow my nose a lot more to generate all the boxes I'm going to need!

This video made me happy and gave me ideas for my own space. I go with common convention, moving beginning articles to the end following a comma.

I NEED to see Derek’s hardcore/emo collection

This is why we love this channel. You're so fun to watch. I love the fact yall used Kinect Adventure music in this video.

Taken me much too long to become a patron

Always enjoy the more casual videos, love seein' all them GAMES

Awesome! Though the video cuts off abruptly at the end. Thanks for all that you do!

I have the *exact same* shelf setup. I use wood joining blocks on the top of the units to keep them together. Each block has a number of different holes in various orientations. I put one block on the front and one on the back, and a screw through each block into each unit. I've also got some sets of the shelves backing on to each other, so you can walk around them and get to it from either side.

This was so much fun!!! Loved the tour!!

I like your relationship advice. It shows you guys care a lot about each other.

I was amused by the Just Dance collection for it being out of left field. I have a subcollection like that building currently of PS2 2000s pop culture games. So far it has Mary Kate & Ashley's Sweet 16, MTV Pimp My Ride Street Racing, Crazy Frog Racer, and Pop Idol. They're all god awful but remind me of a simpler time.

the visit from the puppy was the best part of this video.

really loved this video! also i recognize that bookstore! :D

Very good behind the scenes content. Keep it coming 👍

“The” of my games and movies go in the “T” section as it’s just the easiest for me lol.

12:38 "you couldn't walk in my shoes you couldn't handle this" 🤣🤣

this man is passionate about his tools! Great fun video

My dude!! That Jumping Flash music!! Around 10 minutes in. I never see any content about that beautiful series anymore

Love to see casual Derek and The Deuce just talking about their apartment.

lol, This all looks so great! The little gap in-between the book cases bugged me when I had them too. Lowes sells "Ornamental Moulding" which some have really cool textures and are probably light enough to be mounted between the bookcases using mounting tape over those little areas where the bookcases sit against each other, you can probably paint them some cool neon colors and stuff too, or just paint them white. They're pretty cheap and they're usually sold in 8ft increments so they'll cover floor to ceiling pretty easily, if not they can be easily cut with a hand saw. Just something I did back in the day, sorry for the long comment lol.

Great video, always a pleasure to hang with Uncle Derek & producer Grace

speaking of signed stuff, i saw Derek at Portland Retro Gaming Expo doing 16 player Faceball 2000 and really wanted to say hi and thanks for getting me onto Illbleed with your HVGN video, but it looked so busy and i didn’t want to interrupt. the thing i was gonna try to get a signature on was Big Daddy starring Adam Sandler for UMD VIDEO on PSP btw. hopefully next year if ur there!

Been waiting for this for years!

Nice collection, thanks for the tour! I try to keep my own gaming collection set by consoles/companies. Like all the Sega stuff, going from the SMS to the Dreamcast one next to each other. But then I also have these special "alcoves" for a few series. Like all the Doom/ID software stuff together. All Capcom VS fighting stuff. All SNK VS fighting titles. All Sonic games, all Wonder Boy/Monster World games...

The game room looks good. Always nice to have a Grace sighting in your videos!

That bit about unique things in greatist hits versions of games sounds like a neat video idea.

I got a copy of Kuon back in 2015 at a used games store complete in box with manual for $70 when it was going for $600 online at the time and is now like, $900 at the lowest.

It all looks so cool!

Y'all will get a milly for sure, keep up the good work gang

This was a nice video, a little different than the others. Always been a collector since the 90's, and all I really have is an extensive movie collection these days, so it's relatable. Hard to keep it all going with moves and dumb architectural room layouts. I'd love custom shelves, but for years I've been using some relatively cheap, lightweight wire frame shelves off Amazon. They're not ideal and I still don't have them quite where I'd like them, but they're fully adjustable shelf spacing, stable enough, can't flop or break, are blu-ray case depth, DVD / special case height, and hold my 1000+ with room to grow etc.

I have the exact IKEA shelves, i NEVER thought to build a platform for more games in the back 🤯🤯 definitely trying this out. Loved the video as always Uncle Derek

I'm glad you managed to get Lunar complete in the box, finally. Been bugging you to review it over my various RU-vid channels since the HVGN days, Derek! Lunar 2 is indeed rarer and more expensive, but it's not as good as the first one. Both are very underrated RPGs, though, well worth playing.

Finally a tour video 💯

Very awesome collection!

I love Derek's Lollipop Chainsaw shirt there, I'm kinda jealous. Hehe.

3:46 The Xbox Live Arcade disc for the OG Xbox did go online. The disc was a storefront that connected to its Xbox Live game server to sell you games on the disc. People forget that the OG Xbox dashboard did not contain a store app, so games and DLC had to be sold via the stores that came with the games.

i bought one of those giant ikea shelves as well for my games lol, i thought my collection was pretty big but it all fits on the one unit with room to spare on the bottom shelf

Always love a new video from Uncle Derek and Producer Grace(The Duce!) !

Weird story Derek, I guess I subbed during your HVGN days but fell off and restumbled on your videos the past year and love the stop skeletons from fighting content. When you pulled out the Ruby Dagger album I had to take a second glance. I used to blast that album in college and loved it. I don't think I realized that was you. Awesome stuff!

T counts Now the real alphabetizer's dilemma Jak And Daxter: The Precursor Legacy Jak II Jak 3 how are those three alphabetized? Tick-tock, uncle Derek

Great video, you guys rock!

Good job Producer Grace for keeping on top of the production and acknowledgments!! I also loved the “ew, who’d want to share an apartment with a BOY” comment, haha. That chair looks super comfy as well.

*noticing Playdate in the background* I'm stoked to hear SSFF's take on that some day, whether in a video or not

The fact that Uncle Derek didn't take the stud finder and point it at himself while making a beeping sound kind of saddened me.

I back Producer Grace 100% “The” is part of the title, full stop.

I have the same sort of shelves for my stuff, what I did was drill through the peg holes, slide a bolt through one side, and slap a nut on it. Keeps everything together nice and tight, and is small enough not to be obtrusive.

I like how the set up looks. Very professional and adult like.

Oh cool, you have a Playdate. Would love to see a video on that at some point!

Man... Derek you're awesome, you would deserve a 300k subscriber plaque, even better you deserve 1 million subs.

Not the usual content, but I loved it. Love you guys. #SSFFForever

This made me want to clean my room Thanks Uncle Derek

I totally get being able to clock out and leave when you work from home. But I've spent so many hours in there for work, I don't want to do any fun stuff in my home office. And i spent so much time designing and building my desk, refinishing the original oak floor, and planning all my wall art and display cabinets. Now i can't stand being in there off hours. It just raises my blood pressure being in there.

This is beyond rad, thank you Derek (my Uncle Derek)!!!

Awesome video game collection man 😎!

Never underestimate the power of Half Price Books. Managed to find MGS4 for around 10 dollars once.

I am overwhelmed by this fantastic video but I just want to give a special shout out to not only Splatterhouse on the turbo Graphics 16 but also Legendary Axe, that game is awesome

I arrange my shelf according to colour. It looks really nice, I keep a map of where all the games are so it's actually really easy to find what I'm looking for and my favourites I just remember.

Very nice collection!!!

Ikea really is amazing for storing game collections. They make shelves/bookcases for seemingly every style and room, which are very affordable, look great, are sturdy, and easy to put together. For my collection, I typically add an enclosed Billy Bookcase about once a year. They look great, have glass doors that keep a lot of the dust out, can hold a few hundred games each, and can be found for only around $200 on sale.

You have such an awesome collection of games on your shelves there dude,and it really inspires me to be a collector myself but I really don’t know where I should start. Any advice where I should start my collection Uncle Derek.

"I put the heater behind the doom collection" Guess you gotta keep hell hot

Love the Tomba music! What a great set up ❤

Awesome video Derrick.

Hey, love the setup! I just wanted to say *you WILL hit a million subs one day,* if that's what you're striving for!

That power strip is dope!

I usually think gameroom tours are cheap content...like the clip shows of gaming youtube...but...this was thoroughly amazing.

Great video, I definitely have a similar mentality when it comes to collecting; only things that I actually want and will get used, and I do like some weird stuff too! Practically have the same Doom collection 😂

Would love to see a Playdate vid! I'm really loving mine

This should spruce up my Friday and hell week. Thank you uncle D

As someone living in a very humid climate, for your closet, please get a cheap humidity meter and if it's high (over 60% is high IMO), and get an electric one. It may be expensive (few hundreds for a big xiaomi one) but it would be much worse if your games, cameras, etc. caught any fungus or corrosion.

Having the heater be behind the doom games is perfect theming

So I thought I would just write a quick comment but this video got my brain pumping and I got carried away. Sorry about that but I'm posting this small essay. Anyways gosh this just gets me giddy to when my life is less all over the place and I can finally establish a space like this. I had a room like this in my old three room apartment when there was two people living there but once we got the third roommate that room pretty much combined with the living room. Which gave it this very chaotic vibe that I like to look back on but not one that I necessarily want to have again. I do know that I would like some sort of cozy chair or maybe even a loveseat, some type of CRT, and a good space for my plants. The kicker with plants though is I wanna make sure I don't end up bleaching my collection while also giving the plants the opportunity for photosynthesis. Which isn't nearly the size of yours but it's still a collection that demands to take up some amount of space. I'd also want to be able to have a decent set up for my music and art supplies. Right now most of my stuff is in storage though. Also for me it goes in the "L" section. I wasn't sure where to put it either but my friend Eli told me that the "L" isn't some sort of subtitle it is the first proper word in the title. Makes sense to me. I also do it chronologically once we get to a series. Like for the Wii I would have "Twilight Princess" come before "Skyward Sword" because that just makes more sense to me. This isn't always perfect though because on the Gamecube I have the Sonic games listed something like "Sonic Adventure DX, Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, Shadow The Hedgehog, Sonic Mega Collection, Sonic Gems Collection" and there are several things wrong with that. I also lost my copy of Heroes years ago which really bothers me. One last thing to close out this long paragraph but I think my coolest find was not finding just one Gamecube Broadband Adapter at a local game store but finding TWO Gamecube Broadband Adapters at a local game store. I walked in going to buy Shin Megami Tensei V, a game I still haven't played, and bam there they were sitting right at me. It blew my mind and I knew that an opportunity like this was just never going to happen again. Like these things aren't necessarily impossible to get but this was the most convenient way to get them. I didn't get them for a steal but I didn't have to pay more than I reasonably would have to either. I think this winter my friends and I are going to try and do some fun stuff with Double Dash and Kirby's Air Ride. None of us have 1080 Snowboard otherwise I'd toss that in but we are going to try and go online with Phantasy Star Online. Which I also have the Gamecube Keyboard Controller so it's gonna be stupid fun. Once I nab myself a Panasonic Q I think I'll have the three "holy grails" of my collection. I also have a Just Dance goal but it's simply to have Just Dance 2017 for the Wii, Wii U, and Switch. I could do the same dumb thing for 2018 but I like 2017's cover more. Thanks for posting this video! I really enjoy seeing little tours like this obviously as it gives me ideas to pull from but I also just like seeing how people have all this stuff set up. I really dig how the corner isn't just a 90 degree angle either I like that shelf you have there to give it a bend. Take care!

Where were you and your hole saw when Bimmy was chipping through that tough 80s wood desk with a screwdriver?! HVGN goated

I'm also looking for Lunar 2. A local store had a copy but before I made my decision, it was gone. Someday I will get my hands on a copy.