Interesting budget idea of $ 100 per month. It does seem like your per game price that you feel is acceptable has increased and you are spending more on fewer games but you are OK with it so that's great. Enjoy your videos very much. It feels like hearing a good friend discuss a shared hobby. Thank you.😊
Always happy when you upload a video. My favorite channel on RU-vid. I think $100 a month on gaming is pretty good, especially for retro content! I love that you show how much fun you can have with games that aren't the most expensive ones people always talk about. Reminds me what I loved about retro gaming when I first started collecting.
Cool pickups once again. Some stuff I'd never buy, others that (for me) are too beat up to grab even for cheap, BUT your commentary is ALWAYS fun and interesting to listen to.
To answer your question about strategy guides; Yes, people do collect these. I casually collect these when I find them, and mostly just the ones for games I love. Recently I've gotten a deal on the BradyGames guides for Metal Gear Solid 2 : Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3 : Snake Eater, as well as the Piggyback guide for Metal Gear Solid 4 : Guns of the Patriots. Love how they look and found them really cheap (5 CAD$ for each). The guy even sold me first DMC's guide for 5$ too.
I do agree with you on how great the MGS games are. Currently playing the Master Collection on PS5, having a blast. I intend on picking up the Essentials Collection like the one you have. Maybe even the HD Collection. I do own the Twin Snakes remake as well, that's how I first experienced MGS 1.
I literally stopped what I was doing to watch this and it totally delivered. That Guitar Hero box is BEAUTIFUL and a great addition to your collection. Appreciate you as always
Yes, keep these videos comming, I enjoy your opinion on each game that you find. I enjoy seeing what games you find. Sometimes the hunt is worth more than playing the game!! Also maybe you should have some "live gameplay" videos of some of your OG Xbox games.
The most exciting thing of my day was seeing that blue dot in collector john icon. Love your videos, please never never ever stop making them. Even if is monthly, never stop!
There's something about your content that resonates with me in best possible way, so simple, chill and packed with nostalgia. keep up with great work, I'm looking forward to your next upload. Cheers from Croatia! 🍻
Awesome video! I get to live vicariously through you, since there's basically no game store where I live (KCMO) I would definitely watch the "what's in these Xbox 360 Hard Drives?" video btw
There’s something so nostalgic as a mid 90’s kid seeing the Ps1,Ps2, Xbox and Xbox 360 games and cases, I used to have mirrors edge on physical copy not sure what happened to it, I bought it around the time it came out back ‘08 for like $40. I have it and mirrors edge catalyst on digital copy. Both mirrors edge games play at 60 fps on Xbox Series X/S!
I also really enjoy picking up strategy guides, especially for any sort of RPG. I got a few pretty normal ones in a recent haul including Oblivion, Mass Effect, and InFamous, but my best find was a hardcover collector's edition Fable III guide. the art in that one is amazing and it's like 400 pages. they only wanted $10 for it. edit: I forgot to mention I would definitely enjoy the video exploring the random hard drives. keep up the good work!
Great video! I love the long form videos. I have the big box IBM copies of the Star Wars games you mentioned, since PC games and the X-Box are my goto collections.
Love the “frugal” collecting, John! I’ve been doing something similar, but have limited myself to a budget of $144CAD for the year, or $12/mo. I can increase the budget a bit by selling things from my collection, but the goal is to spend no more than $144 on gaming for 2024. I’ve kept a tally of it all in my notes app, so for anyone interested…here’s how it’s going: Only spend $144 on video games for the year. Spend as of February 18: $81.92 Minus sales of $45 Balance as of Feb 23: $36.92 Minus sales of $15 Balance as of Feb 28: $21.92 Balance as of Feb 29: $26.92 Balance as of March 9th: $66.12 (ps2 multitap) Balance as of March 28th: $41.12 (sold n64 cont) Balance as of April 4th: -48.88 (sold genesis + ps3) Balance as of April 4th: -13.33 (screw bits and paste) Balance as of April 28th: -1.33 Balance as of April 28th: $9.77 Balance as of May 5th: $91.77 (CIB games + 80s consoles) Balance as of May 6th: $51.77 (Sold 13” VCR/TV) Balance as of May 7th: $31.77 (Sold Xbox controllers) Balance as of May 8th: $51.77 (bought tv/vcr combo) Balance as of May 15th: $121.77 (Bought SNES games for Youth, need to sell!) Balance as of May 27th: $111.77 (Sold Wii component cables) Balance as of May 27th: $61.77 (Sold broken PS4s) Balance as of May 28th: $31.77 (Sold ps4 controllers) Balance as of May 28th: $26.77 (Sold 360 cables) Balance as of June 1st: -$43.23 (Sold 13” Toshiba TV) Balance as of June 3rd: -$63.23 (Sold 9” Orion TV) Balance as of August 9th: -$18.23 (Bought Sonic Unleashed + 2 genesis games) Balance as of August 15th: $31.77 (Bought two rare Xbox games) Bought so far: 1. Wolfenstein The New Order (360) 2. Rise of the Tomb Raider (360) 3. The Orange Box (360) 4. Ratchet & Clank (PS4) 5. PS1 Console + Controllers + Harry Potter on PS2 6. Gears of War (360) 7. PS2 Multitap 8. Torx Security Bit set 9. Game bit set 10. Thermal Paste 11. Tetris 2 + manual (SNES) 12. Mini Ninjas (360) 13. CIB Sub-Terrania (Gen) 14. CIB Tom and Jerry (Gen) 15. Coleco Gemini console + games 16. Intellivision console + games 17. RCA to F cable adapter (2) 18. Rival Turf (SNES) 19. Turtles in Time (SNES) 20. Sonic Unleashed (360) 21. Rocket Knight Adventures (Gen) 22. Stargate (Gen) 23. Project Sylpheed (360) 24. Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (360) Going to sell… PS1 for $35 - Sold for $30 N64 Controller for $35 - sold for $25 PS1 Controllers for $30 - Sold 1 for $10 Genesis for $60 -sold for $40 (kept controller) PS3 for $50 - sold for $50 StarFox for $15 - $Sold for 15 Projected Sales total: $225 Actual Sold total: $170
I wish I could like this 3,000 times to make up for everyone else that isn't liking your videos. I'm always do hyped when you come out with a new video
I just about hyperventilated when u said u were in High School in 2008 lol. I was 33. I love the 360 games tho. The Sega Genesis used to be my favorite console with PS2 a close second but the 360 has definitely taken over the top spot. So many great physical and digital games on the Arcade that were released. I own 393 Xbox 360 games and by far it's the most games I own for a console with the PS2 in 2nd place with 207 games. I really enjoyed CoD2, it was one of the 1st games I had on the 360 and 1st I ever played online. Ghost of Tsushima Directors Cut is prolly the way to go now if u can find it for cheap on the PS5. The game X111 has a remastered version on the PS4 and it's cheap. All excellent pickups. Thanks for an awesome video.
You the man John!!! I really enjoy all your content. You care about the things you share with us and that true love is very evident. I have slowed down with purchases because I have been feeling very overwhelmed by the backlog. Did trade a few games and get Darksiders Genesis recently. Really thinking about refining the collection. I highly recommend Retro Bird’s videos about this topic to all collectors.
currently saving for a house and have rarely taken some spare change for my game collecting or hobbies in general, and watching your videos is a great coping mechanism XD love the videos
Love the pick ups. When I had my PSP in like 2006 or whatever I had Twisted Metal Head On and it was a blast. I played the heck out of it and honestly just used it to show my sister car crashes on car rides lol. I also had Gripshift and if you ever see that for like $5 I think you’d really like it. Just a racing trials kinda radicalesque game.
plugging in the 360 HDD's and seeing what's on them would be interesting to watch. (this is the first video i've watched of yours. i like your vibe man!)
Always thought it was a bummer the ps3 didn't come with an HDMI cable. Best I can tell the first console to come with an HDMI cable was the Wii U. That's crazy.
Love the collection. I collect myself, but I don't keep the cases unless it's a collector's edition for space reasons. I'm not a big complete-in-box person and I want to save space while collecting physical media.
That’s the beauty of the xbox 360 era, so many games nobody has heard of, so many hidden gems… nowadays it’s either AAA games or indie games. Kinda sad.
I'm trying to keep it in the same ballpark, but been spending a little bit more lately. It's hars ro keep it in check when you start collecting for multiple systems.
Hey great video Collector John! Have you seen Mystic’s channel? A lot of us appreciate how he opens the game case and spins the disc around so it’s facing up (the correct way). If you started doing this it would help with some of your viewers ocd issues. Thanks!
John just wanted to let you know I stayed all the way to the end and Yea that dude in the Star Wars game definitely looked like Ross from Friends lol 🤣🤣🤣
Great pickups as always. Fun fact that neither you nor anyone else would ever give the slightest fuck about but I had actually stopped gaming after high school. But then a guy at work was telling me about Resident Evil so I went and bought a PS1. The first games I got were RE and Rebel Assault 2. Coming off of a SNES, that shit was mind blowing.
It's been dry for me at value village or goodwills as well. And I'd keep the game sealed. I find sealed 360 games sometimes at value village and I always keep them sealed
God, I wish I kept all the strategy guides I bought in childhood. Only one remaining is a Dragon Age Origins guide, for some reason - doesn’t give the same nostalgia as PS1 and Xbox game guides. May have to get into collecting them. Worse though is my missing video game cases. Most of my PlayStation 1 games are in cd books like the one you showed in this video. I curse my past self sometimes!
Call of Duty 2 was the first game I played when the 360 released. Remember hooking it up through a vga cable, which seemed to really boost the resolution. Damnation is interesting. The controls are horrible but once you find your way around them it's fun. Also, if I remember right, they kind of tell you how to beat bosses in the cut scenes which come before.
I have one of those VGA cables and I used to have my 360 permanently hooked up to a Dell CRT monitor. It looks reaaally good, arguably better than HD on a regular flat screen
So glad you uploaded again! I love your videos 🙂 slightly judging the potato salad habits though… anyway! Mirrors Edge is a great game! Keep uploading my dude :)
I have replaced a disc drive on a fat ps3 for a coworker. You have to buy the same model of drive and swap the chips since the disc controller is locked to the ps3.
BTW, I would love to see you buy the HDD for the 360. Mystic, a RU-vidr who talks about PS, did a video about playing and finishing save data files on the PS2 and PS3. I thinik you doing the same thing for the 360 would be great for the channel!
4:16 I'm literally playing Dark Forces on PC as I watch this video, I'm at the level where you rescue Jan from Jabba. Looks so good at 320x200 on a CRT monitor 🤤
@@collectorjohn9538 I'm actually playing a fan remake called "The Force Engine". Requires you to own the original game on steam but is a super easy like 2 second setup just download and run it. It's much more faithful to the original, I highly recommend it over the remake if playing on a CRT. For playing on a CRT it's TheForceEngine>Original>Remake. The art/text has been altered in the remake for modern displays.
Great to see you back! Vampyre is an awesome game, not sure why ppl bash it so much, I thought it was pretty cool. One thing John, could you show the back of the game please when you go thru them? I like to pause and look at the backs rather than pull another tab or something to look for it.
Rebel Assault 2 was the first PC game I ever played so it wasn't the greatest first impression of PC gaming. Thankfully, the second game I played was Wing Commander 3.
Holy moly im number 109 in the queue!!!! lol When you do get to lil ol me I would love to know if you burned your own Dreamcast games. I had them as a kid and needed a boot up disc but I have no idea where I even got those from back then.
Awesome pickups, I wish I had as many stores locally to shop. We have 2 and both sell their better/higher value items on eBay, so the store is a lot of commons and leftovers. I’m restricted to FB marketplace and yard sales for deals, do you ever do those?
I do FB marketplace occasionally but I don't find it very enjoyable haha. I do have a pretty crazy FB marketplace haul that I intend to make a video on soon
If you enjoy collecting for the ps1 and are looking to get more into some mega man games, do yourself a favor and pick up mega man x4. Thank me later 😉 Also, still super jealous of that green crt 🤩
7:45 I don't believe a longbox of MGS exists, right? Longboxes were phased out by the time the game came out (only around 100 games during the first few years came out as longboxes in NTSC U regions). I think you must be thinking of the DVD case MGS Essentials Collection version, which obvious you already own
