Small town video game stores are a vibe 

This video is a breath of fresh air from all the highly edited and SuPeR sToKeD "collectors" getting grails for pennies at swap meets. Just feels like a nice lil journey, no anxiety. Thanks!

"It's an accident I swear, I'm not trying to go to the pool." Lol, suuuuuuure buddy!

Walking around small towns talking about games? Inject that shit straight into my veins! Need more!

good to know that Collector John is a fellow common loon

Just happened to stumble upon your channel, and it's a vibe. You seem like a chill person! Subbed

Looking forward to the inevitable bass fish off to see which is best. Comparing similar style cheap games could be a fun side series

The scream in the car wash got me 😂

My goodness I love this channel, please please please keep it up

FF Tactics Advanced is such a blast of nostalgia. I played that game so much growing up and still have my original copy. I remember putting in the bs amount of grinding into getting all of my Ninja's the Double Sword ability.

I live over in Elkhorn about 45 minutes from Milwaukee. I’ll have to head up to West Bend and check this out!

Crusin' your way into 2K subs man...Nice!

Always appreciate your stuff man. Have a good one!

The guy that does all those videos about the structures in New York City, you look like his long lost brother! It's a compliment by the way :)

Liking your channel man! I. From literally just over the border in IL, 20 mins from Kenosha! Im a truck driver in food service so im in Milwaukee every week so its cool to see someone so close to home! I actually made a delivery to this area one day and saw Respawn and stopped in for a bit, pretty cool store!

OL Johnny the collector is back! America , F**k yeah!!!!

Your definition of heavy hitter games cracked me up lol, specially because it´s true for Xbox players .

Nice watch ! I liked the CRT gameplay footage addition to the pickups

Hell yeah! Was just checking the page the other day in case I'd missed an upload, always epic to see a new Collector John vid! Keep up the good work, hope to see you hunt around the Twin Cities metro someday!

A mystic loon call is the last thing you hear when your death involves a forest.

Congratulations for the channel. Very cool to see these games stores in the US. Here in Brazil we don't have many games stores, I envy you in a good way 😂, because you have several stores and with great prices.👍

I live in west bend and once I saw respawn in the thumbnail I clicked immediately, it's a really nice store and I bought some games over Easter weekend. They do have a second store in fon du lac but haven't been to that one yet. I'm glad you liked our little videogame store.

And the ddr games are amazing,lol

Nice pickups! Especially that DoA! The 1st one had way more actual gameplay than all the other sequels combined, lol! Of course, you hit the Pool side button by "mistake" 😂! Great video and keep up the good work!

Action bass rules! Fish on!!

Hello, fellow Wisconsin collector here (Wisconsin Dells area). I just came across your channel. Great video. I've been to that store before. It's small, but a nice selection.

Good pickups! I live near the Wisconsin boarder in Illinois, you're giving me a ton of spots to check out man

Me before watching video: “Oh hey, it reminds me of that one little game store in downtown West Bend.” Me after watching video: “OH MY GOD, IT IS THAT LITTLE GAME STORE IN DOWNTOWN WEST BEND”

Although I'm not an xbox collector I like the channel (although I know you collect other consoles xD), it's relaxing to watch and you feel identified as a collector... than the rest of the channels that find super cheap games or pay a lot of money and thus easily get them. A lot of success with the channel, in the meantime I've already subscribed xD

I remember you could play a mad dash demo on the walmart xbox kiosk back in the day. the television was like up on the ceiling lmao and you had to crane ur neck to see. I obvs couldn't not play whilst mother shopped, but I prayed for her swift return cuz it still really hurt my neck teehee

RIP to your cars paint. Lol great video though, always love kicking back and watching your videos after a long day.

Hey! nice video 😊I just found your channel and love your content! am binge watching your videos haha. I love video game collecting and op shopping (thrift stores) so I am glad to have found you're channel! ❤ Hope you have a nice day/night!

My home town video store to this day still rents out NES, SNES, Genesis, N64 games etc

Great Video John

Another great video, dead or alive is like bootleg sims lol. Love it

I played that beach volleyball game back in the day… and never realized it had jet ski racing in it. 🙃

Love the editing of the video, felt like a cool little adventure. Also good sounds you used in video too. I found a copy of ghost in the shell one time for PS1, it was going for more than 130$+ at the time online. I saw it at the store for under $80, I was going to buy it but they never found the disc in the back 💀 that beach game I definitely played for the plot 😂

Ah, you're in Wisconsin. I'm in West Allis!

Pretty sure I have bought games from Respawn at Midwest Gaming Classic. Cool pickups!

Definitely going to need more car wash horror intros!

So this is where David Foster Wallace really went! 🤣🍻 Glad your channel came up in my feed - loved the vid. Sub'd!

I went to this store for the first time back in fall 2022. It was fine. I picked up one game, but everything else was a bit overpriced, and their selection wasn't super grand. Their other location has a lot more stuff, and I picked up a LOT more there. Btw, we are in Madison, WI and hit up game stores all the time. We actually just got back from a road trip through Indiana, Ohio, and parts of Kentucky. So many games. 😍

The Fishing Games 😂. Your whole channel gives me Original Xbox Reddit Vibes.

The town I live in/ grew up in has a population of 900. Small towns have great things

that game store looks rad!

Fremont Ohio has a small video game store called C and C games and Bellevue Ohio has one named Level Up

You would love Primal John, great little under rated game

I still see games at the Sheboygan Goodwill, every now and again. Also, if you have Savers in the Milwaukee area, try them, I had some luck in Eau Claire

The PS2 section was dope!

Sweet! got something to look forward to after work. Wish there was more game stores near me 😭

Really appreciate the sarcasm.

Good video! I’m also from the Milwaukee area and have been to that store! Would love to know what other stores in the area you like

God America has so many people, i live in a small town in Australia and it has 600 people not 30k lol.

Great pickups!

I would have bought the freekstyle on gba cuz my friend and loved playing it on ps2 back in the day. It would have made me a happy camper! Lol!

Subbed bro

DOA volleyball was amazing.

Still don’t have an OG Xbox, so no DOA Extreme 1 for this guy. Glad to know I have ability to acquire 2nd game on 360. PS2 has some great bad volleyball games. Glad to see a video, look forward to the gameplay from some other games on your adventures. Be well

My wife and I will drive 2 hours to go to video game stores lol. There just aren't any where we live in south Texas. And for some reason all of the thrift stores mark things up 20% higher than eBay?

Come thru to Eau Claire sometime! Tbh between gaming generations and the pawn store there’s some cool things to be found here

primal is great and has an awesome soundtrack

What a lune lol

Dude if you ever see Sparten Total Warrior again pick it up. It's a very underrated game. You will not be disappointed

Dope video. Just curious do you know the name of the fight stick? That’d be cool to add to the collection.

DoA is totally "dad walks in" the video game LOL I agree with some other commenters, you passed on some Genesis bangers, mainly Ranger X

That freestyle gba is a unique racer, I would've definitely gone for that R type Third Lightning and Final Fantasy Tactics. Do you know how much they were asking for those 2 games? Cool video, nice to see og xbox still getting love.

Yo, I'm from the brew city as well! What are your favorite stores to go to around the city?

Primal is a pretty decent PlayStation first party game! Give it a chance if you have your PS2 hooked up! I think it's included in PlayStation Plus too

I have to ask how did you connect your 360 to the Dell CRT that's awesome

is there any warranty if dvd game can't work

$50 for silent hill 2 was honestly a steal

So basically you got DOA Extreme 2 for research... 18:21

You should go to universal collectibles In Menomonee falls.

sick frames!!

Also, every single copy of chronicles of Riddick I've ever seen has looked that bad! Wtf happens to them lol

I never played dead or alive beach volleyball 2.

It really did cut to a commercial when you said to.

I’m only here for the easy times

Hes cute😮

Yes. But isn’t everything a vibe these days?

This shit is a vibe.

Wait what’s wrong with “greatest hits”games?

terrible compared to other collector vids bad editing and drags on way to long

The thrift store trick got you. You bought 3 garbage ps1 games for 9 bucks just becuase they were at a thrift store. If they were at a retail store you wouldnt have even considered buying them. I stopped buying garbage like that for this exact reason. The want to find something is so great you will buy junk. Do that a couple more times and you could have bought an actual good game instead.