How I PROTECT & INSURE my Game Collection - Metal Jesus 

UPDATE: a lot of people asking about the recent mold/water in my basement. At this point, our insurance is saying this falls under "Home Maintenance"... like replacing a leaking roof and may NOT be covered. We're still working to resolve the issue. THX.

"I'm going to water her flowers while she is away" metal af

You're probably the only person who can make insurance sound interesting.

I can't quite put my finger on it, but there is just something so damn like-able about this guy. Literally on a video marathon of your work. Love the vids man!

looking back on these old videos... knowing that mold is growing beneath that desk....

I know my neighbors well enough to know that I don't want them to know when I leave on vacation lol

This video made me paranoid lol

I'm an insurance agent. Remember people if you do have a collection or "man cave" in your basement and are afraid of floods and/or water sewer backup they are excluded under normal renters or homeowners policies. Water sewer backup can usually be added to a policy for more coverage but floods are covered under a separate flood policy.

It’s me from the future. Don’t forget to insure the house itself . Not only the contents.

Excellent question as I want to start making sure I do my physical games from now on. So loved seeing this and loved hearing how you spoke about the real world worries and concerns.

Hey MJ, met you at Phoenix convention. Just need to say, you are a genuinely nice guy. You were more than happy to say hi to everyone who passed by and very appreciative of everyone who came by and said they watch you.

I've decided to create a catalog of all the games I have not only in a spreadsheet, but also with pictures. That's definitely some solid (and much appreciated) advice you've given us.

And of course keep a Nintendo Light gun in every room to ward off any intruder who may want to steal your copy of Tetris. :)

This was extremely informational, along with my games I have 15 guitars and an amp collection and always wondered how this worked. I really appreciate you going into detail with everything, keep up the great content bro !

DUST is my biggest problem! Such a nuisance, shows up literraly the next day. Is that due to so much electronics?

great video metaljesus! this is the first video i've watched to cover this often overlooked but very important aspect in video games collecting

Here is a question: In what order do you place your games in your game room? (Games in order from A to Z, favourite game first and least favourite game last etc.) An easy question that can be answered in a few seconds. :).

That's great that you have a backup camera solution. I have seen tons of malfunction on (mostly cheap) DVR for surveillance. Do check them from time to time. And have you tried testing your security, by intentionally triggering stuff? In my working life, I have encountered some situations where the DVR wasn't recording, or had an error and stop after a certain day, so once a year (more or less) would be something I would do if I had cameras installed. Also using it once in a while, so that if (god forbid) something happend, I would be able to get the recording faster without messing something up. Murphy's law is a scary thing man.

Disaster for me. 2015 I was moving I put my stuff into a storage locker in my city- Kamloops BC - . Which had a gate. and cameras all the important stuff. I got broken into. The operators were on vacation so they didn't know what day this happened. They refused to look at the camera footage. Police - were corrupt and asked me if I had serial numbers on my cd games? WTF! also told me they would not look at the camera footage because how can I prove which cardboard box was mine. Absolute disaster they took hundreds of games, accessories , all my video game figures, and my coin from the NYC nintendo store. I'll never see this stuff again and it would have been safer leaving this stuff in my backyard shed.

I love your videos. The quality continues to improve

Its nice you have that kind of relationship with your neibours, where i used to live in London, not many people have that.. You rarely get more than the odd 'hi'. I have since moved to a smaller town and its night and day. Family next door are super friendly and we talk all the time!

I love love love this video. I needed this information so bad, having just moved into a house for the first time in 17 years and completely unknowledgable on where to even begin attempting how to cover all my games. Frankly not as big as yours, but I'm frankly not as old you either. Maybe some day I'll get there but it won't happen if I don't keep what I have so far safe.

Hey i love the lighting above your desk behind you!

I am new to the insurance industry so this video was very interesting fore me. I knew there was no way they could use scheduled personal property for the game room. Scheduled personal property is for high value single items that need to be insured for a specific amount. For example I just wrote a homeowners policy with SPP for a 28k engagement ring. All homeowners policies come with personal property protection in them, typically our are 50-75% of the homes value but you can increase that to higher limits for a few dollars more a month. My only advice is to talk to your agent and make sure you have good sewer backup coverage. Without it, if the sewer backed up and you had 6 inches of water in your basement your homeowners insurance will NOT cover it. Another piece of advice is get everything off the floor a minimum of 6 inches. If you had to make a claim it will make the claims process easier. Lastly and I hope I am not boring you is have to checked on flood insurance? I have no idea what level of risk you are at but if there was a flood and your gameroom was damaged your homeowners insurance plan will not cover it. Floods are always a specific named exclusion.

Metal Jesus keeps a Drunken Master Paul with a sword in his game room. Beware

Just wanted to say that you are one of the pioneer's in the video game collecting channel world. By your energy and enthusiasm I can tell you do all this for the love of gaming. Thanks for keeping it real fellow gamer!!!

love your channel , your tips ,recommendations and hidden gems videos are great 👌 Keep up the good work 😍 احسنت 👍

I seriously love every single one of your videos, no matter what you talk about.

Thanks for the video - I already have an extensive cataloging system for my collection and some other security measures, but this game me some ideas to insure my collection separate from our home insurance.

Awesome tips, MJ! Always sharing useful tips! Thanks!

Very informative video.. Didn't know you could insure a game collection, but this will be useful if my collection is ever as good as yours

Another great topic I was pleased to see you cover! I have a fair prototype collection I definitely need to insure.

A game collection is a great thing to have. The ability to play so many games at will is simply amazing. The most fantastic thing about your collection in my opinion is : all these things are safe! Your game room is like a museum! The care and love and vision looking forward, and the level of preservation is top notch. You are doing it right Mr. Jesus. Love the channel! I grew up on all those Sierra games, and thank you for contributing to some of the most memorable moments of my gaming past! O7

MetalJesus - A couple good tips here on insurance. There's also another thing I do: besides having a thorough list of my collection, I have just about *"every"* receipt for the games I've bought new over the last 20 years (give or take). I do that for my own piece of mind.

I enjoy watching your videos, you actually inspired me to start collecting. 🤘🏼

my favored youtuber always brings a smile on my face seeing your videos !! greetings from holland

2:23....a bad omen of things to come...

Your videos are so cool and informative. Thank you for the hard work, sir.

Wow, extremely important to know! I'm definitely contacting my insurance provider and upping mine to cover my collection! You rock!

How I PROTECT & INSURE my Meme Collection - Metal Jesus

I love how the cam is right there the whole time haha. No names. I have the same one. It's pretty awesome! Good vid.

Metal Jesus: "don't try to fuck with my shit! Also don't forget people have antique gun collections *hint*"

i have to agree with you on number two, knowing your neighbors is really really important. not only is it cool to know them and have some drinks with them but to also know that you both have each others backs

I'd like to echo what MJ said about a list of games not being enough for insurance purposes. I have a co-worker who used to work as an insurance claims specialist and just having a list on paper of lost/stolen/damaged collectibles was never enough, she told me. I take video a couple of times per year.

I love how you wont mention what brand of camera you are using, but its nicely hidden in plain sight to the trained eye ;). They are brilliant cameras, they also have a remote siren, two way talk and facial recognition too.

Been looking for some info on this. In the process of finishing my basement now to build my man cave/game room only got a little over 600 games got to start somewhere. Thanks for the video, good tips!

This video is super informative! I'd like to also add that CLZ is an amazing inventory app that also does barcode scanning. It also allows you to select CIB, Cart only, or Cart and instructions only. It uses that, along with current pricecharting data and will give you an estimated value of your collection. This is what I'm using to insure my games. I think the app is $14, but it's well worth it. Peace!

Love your channel and videos Wish you all the best

This is a topic that often doesn't get discussed, which I find odd considering the importance of protecting your stuff. Now I'm going to record my ps1, ps2, and xbox 360 collection. Thanks for the tips MetalJesusRocks

I've grown to love you so much dude I wish you all the best and I find i am watching more and more which is so cool cause you just give amazing advice and everything so just want to say thanks and in ever money It would be an honour to meet you lol but for now much love from the UK

when we had the flooding in the uk a couple of years ago, and god decided to piss allover my sinclair collection, the insurance agent(loss adjustor) was impressed i had an inventory and videos of my stuff, i also had some receipts, this made claiming way easier, he came took a look at the water damaged stuff, and said there was no problem. i was really impressed by the fact that he did not care about what could be salvaged, they just said total loss and made an offer which i took, he even said salvage what you can with some rare stuff it may be a case of repairing it, you may not find replacements. the main thing is be upfront to start with, it pays dividends if you have to claim.

Great advise! Personal property insurance is so important! You should be able to bundle it with either home or renters at little to no increase to your premium. Cannot recommend it enough!

I am a small collector as I am slowly growing a small collection of games, consoles, music CDs, cassette tapes, movie cassettes, vinyls and etc. and unfortunatly, I still don't have enough space in my room to put them all away properly. What sucks is that I lost my Gamecube's connection cables and game CDs too. Once I get a job, i'll save away some money for my growing collection and find ways to put them all away neatly.

Very useful information. I'll probably need insurance in the future too, as I have over 800 games now and are still collecting. Hope it will grow to the size of yours once I'm done studying and have a job.

Dude, mjr, you're frekin awesome man! Plain and simple. Just awesome.

Make a video of watering your neighbors flowers pls

They should make a new Mission Impossible with Tom Cruise trying to steal your collection

Great video helped a lot, I have a large collection and there where a lot of subjects I hadn't even thought of thanks MJR 👍😊👌

How do you get delicious library on your phone to check your collection inventory? Thx love the show!

you rock bro never stop making videos \m/

Bro, great video. Such good info, even some stuff i havent thought of

Metal Jesus you are my favorite collector man. You are one of the most realest people!

Even if you don't own the place you live, you can get Renters Insurance that will cover your items and they do help you break down certain amounts ($1,000 for Health & Beauty Products / $3,000 for Jewelry / $5,000 for Electronics) but you can also add additional coverage to specific categories (so if you need to have $10,000 Electronic Coverage instead of $5,000 they can bump that up for just that category) and typically Renters Insurance is pretty cheap; basic plans can be as low as $150 per year depending on how much coverage you want.

All that protection, and no case for the iPhone lol love your channel dude

The only thing insurance does is insures that you lose money. Take that money you would have spent on "insurance" and put it in the the bank or invest it smartly. Then if something actually does happen, you have all this money socked away to replace what you can't be without. WOW right?

When are you doing another vinyl pick up video again?love those. Stay.... METAL!

Good luck replacing the us n64 disk drive

Your dog comment got me thinking about my dog dealing with a robber. She would either get super scared and hide, or go into "hello friend" mode and start trying to give them kisses. She's a little KC Spaniel, and not very smart at that, but wow what I loving dog! lol

Good advice, i'll use that for my own collection! Thanks for the tips! :D

Thanks, im going to insure my console repair shop now! Super smart, ima hafto get an agent and figure all this out, going to be a process but totally worth it

Great video, Metal Jesus! Thanks for your insights and knowledge.

Brilliant video. Very informative 👍🏻

Great topic! May I ask, where did u get ur hard copy of AM2R?

I WATCHED THIS VIDEO AND GOT A PAPER CUT!!!!! YOU DIDNT WARN ME ABOUT THAT! ILLEEEGALL! lol awesome video man, i could employ some of this stuff on protecting my lego collection. also, not very cool to rat out your neighbors like that... now that i know they are gone. im going over there now to steal all her potted plants

i know one of the devices is the canary system. the black cylinder on top of the speaker. i have one in my basement also. i love it

Metalman! Great vid as always brother. Hoping you never have to worry about any of that stuff! Also, you should pick up the Ps2 game Radiata Stories and do a review!! Amazing ps2 jrpg!

Thanks for the badass info. I have a similar situation that requires security, but it might be a bit before I can get cameras lol

Thank you so much for making this!

Love this video so much. Thank you for the usefull info, you gave me alot to think about.

Thanks a ton for the video. This is one of my big concerns as my collection gets much larger.

I have the same security system. I don't have it incorporated like you do, with smart home stuff but it is an excellent system.

This is informative for a game collector and someone who is just getting into home and auto insurance

Sometimes home insurance only covers "normal" house hold items. I had to insure my pinball collection separately.

Fast forward a year and his basement had a leak and he now has $10k worth of repairs to make to his house.

After a fire destroyed every single thing I owned back in 05, thousands of games and several consoles, I will always have insurance. My insurance company sent me a check for the damages within 7 days. ALWAYS get insurance people!

Great video! This is something that I have always wondered about with you big collectors, and have actually even asked in the comments (though I'm sure you get security questions quite often). As a side question about something you touched on in this video, would you actually attempt to buy our collection back with the insurance payout? I would be tempted to pocket the cash and hang up my collectors gloves at that point. It may be different for you, because you have a successful RU-vid channel centered around your game collecting lifestyle.

Hey MJR great video... But what about disc rot, any advice?

Anything for mold protection?

Love ur defense system, realky practical

Very informative and well done clip. Thanks for your advice.

Love the videos, keep up the great work...

Lol in the stream of talking about the importance of “security” you literally just told RU-vid you’re neighbor was on vacation 🤣

Hey MJR, i dont remember what video you mentioned it on, i think it was the one with reggie where you talked about Titanfall 2, THANK YOU FOR THE RECOMMENDATION! I had TF1, I didnt know the second one was on PS4 and also had a actual campaign, im not one for online FPS. It is awesome!

Excellent video, I've been wondering about how to protect my collection

I got a question for you regarding your Mame cabinet. I want to build one myself, and I was wondering how big is the screen on your monitor? I want to go with a widescreen monitor so I can run some of the newer game in addition to the older games, and I don't mind having the black bars on the sides of the screen, but since yours is the old 4:3 format I was wanting to know so I can get a rough estimate on how big of a monitor I'd need to get.

Thanks for the tips... i will take some videos when i get home !!

Digital photos of all the items that you want to protect on a Cloud Drive would also be very helpful

Thanks for video! You kicked me in the butt to video tape my collection I catalog every game and system but having video is better Do you save receipts? peace brother

"Get to know your neighbor...." So simple yet its so true yet we rarely do that.

Good stuff