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CQ 301 - 5 Tips To Help You Collect Better by Johnny & Tyler

An important announcement about the near future of the show and we do 22 mini-episodes of all your ideas from the Discord.

We're talking about parallels to modern book collecting, investing, and Johnny's Empty Slot Effect (tm)

We are talking about video games (old physical media format if you remember) that came with trading cards, largely from the Sega Genesis because it has a ton of them. You all know what trading cards are, so I hope you will enjoy some video game content.

The code in a box era is upon us and soon the set of video games possible to collect will be complete.

An episode where we say a bunch of rare and expensive games we don't own simply aren't good enough for us to own.

Due to circumstances of fate, Johnny has to narrow his collection down to only his 100 best games.

In a breezy 3 hours, Tyler and Johnny discuss if there were no money or space constraints and Tyler could only own 100 video games in his collection, which video games he would choose.

The nicest sticker-sealed SMB, the earliest SMB prototype, and the grand prize Nintendo World Championships all recently sold or are for sale right now! Also there's a new Neo Geo thing we have to talk about to rage bait.

We are talking about the olden days of the DigitPress rarity guide and the whether Atari R10s (the rarest games on the scale) still matter in today's collecting world.

Is Resident Evil having a moment? Maybe? Kind of? Is Resident Evil always having a moment? We're talking about collecting RE games.

We're back! We're talking about what it's like shopping for games in Japan and news we missed like $275,000 manga sales and ridiculously perfect NES Punch Out prototype.

We're talking about a bunch of weird game-adjacent NES stuff, and it's only for the real ones. You know who you are. This episode is (not really) sponsored by Jeffrey Wittenhagen's book NES Oddities, which is a fun book that goes over a lot of this.

Johnny wants to talk about set collecting in 2026, so here we are. We're talk a bit about what sets you guys are collecting these days.

It's a shocker, I know, but me and Johnny will be collecting physical video games even though another year has passed. We're discussing the game collecting hits from 2025 and looking at the future.