The Collector's Quest

By Johnny & Tyler

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Listen to the Collector's Quest Podcast! Your resource for topics on game collecting, information, news, sets, variants, etc. If you collect retro games, or any video games, give us a listen!

Episode Date
CQ 246 - The Worst Insert: Temporary Tattoos
Apr 29, 2024
CQ 245 - Games Are Affordable When You Don't Buy Nonsense
Apr 14, 2024
CQ 244 - Are Game Conventions Even Worth It?
Mar 23, 2024
CQ 243 - The Best Non-Game VG Collectibles
Mar 07, 2024
CQ 242 - Collecting Controversy
Feb 19, 2024
CQ 241 - Modern Games You'll NEVER Regret Owning
Feb 09, 2024
CQ 240 - Old Men Complain About Collecting Rereleases, Reissues, and Rehashes
Jan 22, 2024
CQ 239 - Rating "THE RAREST" Collectible Games
Jan 08, 2024
CQ 238 - The Goals, Trends, and Prices of 2023
Dec 30, 2023
CQ 237 - Collecting the EARLY History of Platformers
Dec 11, 2023
CQ 236 - A Conversation for New Game Collectors
Nov 26, 2023
CQ 235 - Gifts you can ACTUALLY ask Santa for
Nov 14, 2023
CQ 234 - How Many NES Variants Can One Man Know?
Oct 30, 2023
CQ 233 - The MOST Iconic Halloween Game on Each Console
Oct 15, 2023
CQ 232 - A Very, Very 90s Halloween Episode
Oct 02, 2023
CQ 231 - We'd Start our PS2 Collections with WHAT?
Sep 19, 2023
CQ 230 - Collecting Very "Adult" Games
Sep 07, 2023
CQ 229 - Stop Buying Things You Don't Need
Aug 22, 2023
CQ 228 - Western Licenses without Western Releases
Aug 06, 2023
CQ 227 - Why YOU, a normal person, might want to collect sports games
Jul 24, 2023
CQ 226 - It's Maybe A Good Time To Buy Games
Jul 09, 2023
CQ 225 - The MOST Underrated and Overrated Collectible Games
Jun 25, 2023
CQ 224 - 3D Glasses: The Metaverse of the 80s/90s
Jun 12, 2023
CQ 223 - 10 Sega Saturn Games We'd Start Our Collections With
May 28, 2023
CQ 222 - Psychological Effects That Affect Collectors
May 19, 2023
CQ 221 - Disney Games (You've Probably Never Heard Of)
Apr 30, 2023
CQ 220 - Games You Simply Can't Collect
Apr 17, 2023
CQ 219 - 10 Sega Genesis Games We'd Start Our Collections With
Apr 03, 2023
CQ 219X - So You Want To Collect Neo Geo
Apr 01, 2023
CQ218 - When Are We Done Collecting?
Mar 26, 2023
CQ 216 - How Many of Our Games Will the Future Even Remember?
Mar 11, 2023
CQ 217 - SideQuest Johnny AMA - Caution Not A Regular Episode
Mar 08, 2023
CQ 215 - So You Want To Collect Gamecube
Feb 20, 2023
CQ 214 - Collecting the Most Influential Games Ever
Feb 05, 2023
Collector's Edition 2: Funko Pop Primer in Conjunction with The Dialogue Alley Podcast
Jan 31, 2023
CQ 213 - Collecting Mail Order Exclusives
Jan 23, 2023
CQ 212 - What Was Cool to Collect in the Mid 2000s?
Jan 09, 2023
CQ 211 - What Happened and What Did We Collect in 2022?
Dec 24, 2022
CQ 210 - So you want to collect... Nintendo Wii
Dec 10, 2022
CQ 209 - 10 SNES Games We'd Start Our Collections With
Nov 27, 2022
CQ 208 - CQ Holiday Gift Guide 2022
Nov 12, 2022
CQ 207 - Retro Game Collecting is Dead
Nov 06, 2022
CQ 206 - So You Want To Collect Halloween Games #5 Current Gen Games
Oct 25, 2022
CQ 205 - Too Many Horror Movie Games from the '70s to '90s
Oct 11, 2022
CQ 204 - Price History is BS
Sep 25, 2022
CQ 203 - Collecting Games From Dead Genres
Sep 13, 2022
CQ 202 - Collecting 6 Rare Dinosaur Games That're Totally Cretaceous!
Sep 01, 2022
CQ 201 - Reconsidering the List of 677 NES Games
Aug 21, 2022
CQ 200 - The History of Our Collecting Goals
Aug 02, 2022
CQ 199 - We're Making Less-Bad Collecting Lists
Jul 20, 2022
CQ 198 - 10 NES Games We'd Start Our Collections With
Jul 02, 2022
CQ 197 - Enjoying Collecting Games More
Jun 21, 2022
CQ 196 - Ranking The 8 Most Collectible Consoles
Jun 04, 2022
CQ 195 - Is "THE BUBBLE" Bursting? Time to Buy??
May 17, 2022
CQ 194 - So You Want To Collect Sega CD
May 04, 2022
CQ 193 - What Are The Full Set Killers?
Apr 20, 2022
CQ 192? - So... Does Anyone Want To Collect R-Zone?
Apr 02, 2022
CQ 191 - Collecting Games Because You Can't Emulate Them
Mar 29, 2022
CQ 190 - Twenty Types of Game Collectors
Mar 18, 2022
CQ 189 - The History (and present) of Collector's Editions
Mar 01, 2022
CQ 188 - The Worst Parts of Collecting Games
Feb 13, 2022
CQ 187 - The Surprising Collectability of... the Wii U?
Jan 30, 2022
CQ 186 - Physical Games in the Upcoming Post-Physical Media World
Jan 16, 2022
CQ 185 - 2021: The Craziest Year in Game Collecting
Jan 03, 2022
Nightmare On My Shelf
Dec 14, 2021
CQ 184 - Obscure Games That Came with Presents!
Dec 12, 2021
CQ 183 - Anything Interesting in that Wata Pop Report?
Dec 03, 2021
CQ 182 - Collecting 10/10 Games for $10 Each
Nov 26, 2021
CQ 181 - Are the "Holy Grails" Even Worth It?
Nov 15, 2021
CQ 180 - Collecting the History of Survival Horror
Oct 31, 2021
CQ 179 - So You Want to Collect Halloween Games #4
Oct 18, 2021
CQ 178 - Documenting Compulsive Collectors with Director Edward Payson
Oct 05, 2021
CQ 177 - Games Based on the Best Cartoon Ever Made
Sep 19, 2021
CQ 176 - Finding Value in What the Market Doesn't Value
Sep 06, 2021
CQ 175 - Talking Karl Jobst's SCAM ALERT (also are pop reports an answer?)
Aug 29, 2021
Episode 174 - So you want to collect Turbografx-16
Aug 16, 2021
Episode 173 - You've completed "The Set". What now?
Aug 01, 2021
Episode 172 - Who's Buying Million Dollar Mario 64s?
Jul 18, 2021
Update: CQ is going back to an explicit rating
Jul 18, 2021
Episode 171 - Collecting the History of Mario Games
Jul 10, 2021
Episode 170 - E3 and Summer Announcements for Game Collectors
Jun 24, 2021
Episode 169 - Collecting Light Gun Games (and some you can't collect)
Jun 14, 2021
Episode 168 - Six RPGs that Might Be Worth Collecting Right Now
May 29, 2021
Episode 167 - The Market is Euphoric, Should You Sell Out?
May 18, 2021
Episode 166 - How Many Collectible Video Games Beat Inflation?
May 09, 2021
Episode 165 - What happens if all our physical Playstation games become coasters?
Apr 24, 2021
Episode 164 - NES Games Based on R-rated Movies
Apr 11, 2021
Episode 163 - The CQ Cut: Collecting DC Comics Games
Mar 28, 2021
Episode 162 - Collector's Questions #1
Mar 21, 2021
Episode 161 - Rare and Collectible Zelda Games
Mar 07, 2021
Episode 160 - Early Video Game Pack-ins
Feb 23, 2021
Episode 159 - Collectible Video Games with Trading Cards
Feb 07, 2021
Episode 158 - What is the Most Expensive, Most Common Nintendo Game?
Jan 25, 2021
Episode 157 - NES vs. Famicom Prices
Jan 16, 2021
Episode 156 - Game Collecting in 2020 and Looking Ahead to 2021
Jan 06, 2021
Episode 155 - Five Golden Things
Dec 21, 2020
Episode 154 - Don't Collect Video Game Food... but if you do...
Dec 16, 2020
Episode 153 - The $1000 Modern Game Draft
Nov 23, 2020
Episode 152 - So You Want to Collect Castlevania Games
Nov 01, 2020
Episode 151 - So You Want to Collect Halloween Games 3 (Thirteen Spooky & Obscure Collectible Game)
Oct 12, 2020
Episode 150 - Talking about Video Game Condition
Sep 27, 2020
Episode 149 - Flush With Plush (and Fractional Share Investing)
Sep 13, 2020
Episode 148 - The "Bubble", The Next Big Console, Johnny Complains about Grades, and More!
Aug 24, 2020
Episode 147 - So You Want to Collect for the Super Nintendo
Jul 26, 2020
Episode 146 - How Game Collectors Can Collect Information
Jul 05, 2020
Episode 145 - The Best & Worst Feelings in Game Collecting
Jun 15, 2020
Episode 144 - What's The Deal With Collecting Sets?
May 29, 2020
Episode 143 - Everyone is at Home Buying More Video Games!
May 15, 2020
Episode 142 - Organic Collectibility vs. Manufactured Collectibility
May 03, 2020
Episode 141 - All Your Video Game Lists Are Bad
Apr 13, 2020
Side Quest 3 - Collecting and Finishing the PS1 Set
Mar 31, 2020
Episode 140 - Coronavirus Impact on the Video Game Market
Mar 27, 2020
SideQuest 2 - Social Strategies
Mar 22, 2020
SideQuest 1 - The Wide World Of Aftermarket Games
Mar 16, 2020
Episode 139 - Two For One: Collectible Double Packs
Mar 06, 2020
Episode 138 - The Death Effect
Feb 21, 2020
Episode 137 - Will Johnny Sell His Collection for $1,000,000, the Future of the Market, and More!
Jan 27, 2020
Episode 136 - A Shameful Review of 2019
Jan 12, 2020
Episide 135 - How to Shop for a Video Game Collector
Dec 09, 2019
Episode 134 - Pawn Stars, the Sonic Movie, and 6 Movie Games
Nov 25, 2019
Episode 133 - NintendoAge Shutdown and 6 Games with Pack-in Surprises
Nov 08, 2019
Episode 132 - PRGE 2019 & What Is "Collectible"?
Oct 28, 2019
Episode 131 - Spooky Collectible Halloween Imports
Oct 17, 2019
Episode 130 - So You Want To Collect Halloween Games #2
Oct 12, 2019
Episode 129 - So You Want to Collect for the Sega Dreamcast
Sep 24, 2019
Episide 128 - Game Collecting Trivia Show
Sep 16, 2019
Episode 127 - A Game Heist, Censorship, and Talking to Deniz from Wata Games
Aug 24, 2019
Episode 126 - Should You Collect First Prints or First Editions?
Aug 18, 2019
Episode 125 - WTF Sonic 1? Why is CQ Always Wrong About First Prints? And other Q&A!
Aug 04, 2019
Episode 124 - Xmas in July ("Collectible" Holiday Games)
Jul 23, 2019
Episode 123 - Bad Games All Collectors Buy... mainly just to post on IG
Jul 15, 2019
Episode 122 - Games Collectors Overpaid For (That Are Cheaper Now)
Jul 01, 2019
Episode 121 - Where Does Game Collecting Go Now?
Jun 15, 2019
Episode 120 - What is the State of Game Collecting Today?
Jun 05, 2019
Episode 119 - So You Want to Collect for the Magnavox Odyssey 2
May 28, 2019
Episode 118 - Same Name, Different Game
May 06, 2019
Episode 117 - Collector's Quiz
Apr 21, 2019
Episode 116 - Where Did the Undiscovered NWC Come From and Other Listener Questions
Apr 15, 2019
Episode 115 - Does it Count? (for the "complete set")
Mar 30, 2019
Episode 114 - So You Want to Collect for the Sega Saturn
Mar 18, 2019
Episode 113 - Interview with Wata Games President Deniz Kahn
Mar 12, 2019
Episode 112 - 9 Game Variants You Should Look Out For
Feb 25, 2019
Episode 111 - Collectors Talking About the $100,000 Super Mario Bros.
Feb 17, 2019
Episode 110 - How do we Organize Our Game Collections?
Feb 02, 2019
Episode 109 - New Year, New Goals
Jan 14, 2019
Episode 108 - Twelve Christmas Collectibles... to Ring in the New Year
Jan 01, 2019
Episode 00: Pre Podcast Recording on Trade Etiquette
Dec 23, 2018
Episode 107 - The Nightmare Before Ship-mas
Dec 07, 2018
Collector's Edition #1 - Harry Potter Book Collecting interview with AllThePrettyBooks
Nov 27, 2018
Episode 106 - So You Want to Collect for the NES
Nov 21, 2018
Episode 105 - Opening a New Store, Running Arcades, & Retro City Fest 2019 with Steve Torres
Nov 12, 2018
Episode 104 - Is the PlayStation Classic Really That Bad?
Nov 01, 2018
Episode 103 - Tricks & Treats: Games to Play this Halloween and Some to Avoid
Oct 16, 2018
Episode 102 - So You Want To Collect Halloween Games #1
Oct 09, 2018
Episode 101 - Too Many Minis?
Sep 26, 2018
Episode 100 - The $1000 Retro Game Draft
Sep 15, 2018
Episode 99 - The Biggest Wastes of Money in Game Collecting
Aug 29, 2018
Episode 98 - Homie Hook-ups, Back Door Deals, and More...
Aug 09, 2018
Episode 97 - So You Want to Collect for the Original Xbox
Jul 16, 2018
Episode 96 - Is It Better To Collect The Most Expensive Games First?
Jul 02, 2018
Episode 95 - So You Want to Collect for the Sega Genesis
Jun 10, 2018
Episode 94 - Our Top Pet Peeves With Collecting Video Games
May 28, 2018
MicroCast 9 - Did The Video Game Collectors Market Crash?
May 15, 2018
Episode 93 - Did Johnny Buy a $100 Reproduction of Mega Man X!?
May 08, 2018
Episode 92 - Moving Past "Retro" and "Modern" With Special Guest Excitebyte Games
May 01, 2018
Episode 91 - Johnny and Tyler Lay the Smackdown on Wrestling Games
Apr 19, 2018
Episode 90 - Dead Digital Games. Limited print game publishers and the Wii Shop shutdown.
Apr 01, 2018
Episode 89 - Collecting The Full Set of 3DO Games with Industry Veteran Stephan Reese
Mar 26, 2018
Episode 88 - What We Talk About Before We Record (Limited Run Games, Dragon Warrior, and More).mp3
Mar 21, 2018
Episode 87 - Tips to Protect Your Collection, and Things to Never Do.
Mar 13, 2018
Episode 86 - Licensed Food Games? Dominos, McDonalds, 7-Up M&Ms???
Feb 27, 2018
Episode 85 - Is The Nintendo Switch Killing the Collectiblity of the Wii-U
Feb 20, 2018
Episode 84 - Special Edition Consoles...They Suck
Feb 07, 2018
MicroCast 8 - How To Save Money On Modern Games
Jan 31, 2018
Episode 83 - Aftermarket Reproductions (The legal kind)
Jan 24, 2018
Episode 82 - Building a Retro Gaming Convention: Retro City Festival 2018
Jan 09, 2018
Episode 81 - Video Game Collectors 2017 Recap
Jan 04, 2018
Episode 80 - Mario Games
Nov 30, 2017
Episode 79 - Holiday Price Spike and Dip
Nov 14, 2017
Episode 78 - Halloween Games That Came With Cool Pack In Items
Oct 31, 2017
Episode 77 - Scooby Doo Console Game Retrospective
Oct 16, 2017
Episode 76 - Family Friendly Halloween Games
Oct 09, 2017
Episode 75 - Most and Least Expensive System to Collect For
Sep 25, 2017
Episode 74 - Words and Phrases That Shouldn't Make Games More Expensive
Sep 19, 2017
Microcast 7 - Another New Host, Tyler Joins The Fray
Sep 11, 2017
Microcast 6 - Being An Opportunistic Buyer, Thoughts on VGA, and Games That Were Destroyed
Aug 29, 2017
Microcast 5 - Collecting Tips for the Nintendo DS
Aug 21, 2017
Episode 73 - Collecting Tips (Fixed)
Aug 14, 2017
Episode 72 - Gaming Vs Collecting
Aug 01, 2017
Episode 71 - Collecting For Modern Sytems and Completing Sets
Jul 25, 2017
MicroCast 4 - What Does Rare Mean?
Jul 18, 2017
Episode 70 - SNES Classic Announced
Jul 03, 2017
MicroCast 3 - Is The Video Game Bubble Bursting
Jun 29, 2017
MicroCast 2 - Should You Already Be Collecting For The Nintendo Switch
Jun 26, 2017
MicroCast 1 - What is a MicroCast and What System Had the Best Game Boxes
Jun 22, 2017
Episode 69 - What Pirate Games Arrr Worth Collecting?
May 30, 2017
Episode 68 - Is It a Good Time To Collect For the Wii-U
May 23, 2017
Episode 67 - Is The N64 Garbage?
May 09, 2017
Episode 66 - NES Classic Discontinued, Collecting Slowing Down?
May 01, 2017
Episode 65 - Pornography in Video Games
Apr 11, 2017
Episode 64 - 8 Reasons Your Games Aren't Worth What You Think
Mar 27, 2017
Episode 63 - Interview with JayBaam and Helping Brooklynn
Mar 13, 2017
Episode 62 - Initial Nintendo Switch and Zelda and Breath of the Wild Review
Mar 07, 2017
Episode 61 -7 Things That Suck About Retro Gaming
Feb 27, 2017
Episode 60 - Kat and I Katch Up - SoCal Retro Gaming Expo Run Down
Feb 15, 2017
Episode 59 - Resident Evil 7VR & Modded NES Classics
Jan 30, 2017
Episode 58 - Nico from Super MadNes
Jan 23, 2017
Episode 57 - We React to the Nintendo Switch
Jan 17, 2017
Episode 56 - SoCal Retro Gaming Expo with @Damn.It.Steve
Jan 09, 2017
Episode 55 - 2016 Year In Review
Jan 03, 2017
Episode 54 - How To Be Successful on Instagram with @Sabotage64
Dec 19, 2016
Episode 53 - The 12 Games of Christmas
Dec 12, 2016
Episode 52 - The SNES Mini?
Nov 21, 2016
Episode 51 - 1 Year of Colletor's Quest
Nov 07, 2016
Episode 50 - Talking Cosplay with Hollita_Cos
Oct 31, 2016
Episode 49 - Horror / Halloween Movies That Became Games
Oct 10, 2016
Episode 48 - Top 5 Spooky Games
Sep 28, 2016
Episode 47 - Our Top 5 PS3 Games and Some Ranting
Sep 20, 2016
Episode 46 - Interview with Lord_Sega_
Sep 12, 2016
Episode 45 - Magazine Collecting, Nintendo Shutting People Down, eBay Jerks, and Crossy Road
Sep 05, 2016
Episode 44 - Conventions Part 2
Aug 29, 2016
Episode 43 - What Game Would You Make A Sequel For? We Share Ours.
Aug 15, 2016
Episode 42 - NES Sequels and the Categories They Fall In
Aug 08, 2016
Episode 41 - Nintendo Game Boy with Kida467
Aug 01, 2016
Episode 40 - Interview Retro_Gaming or StopXWhispering
Jul 24, 2016
Episode 39 - NES Mini, Is It Bad For Collectors?
Jul 18, 2016
Episode 38 - Multiplayer Games
Jul 11, 2016
Episode 37 - How I Got My Super Nintendo Part 2
Jun 27, 2016
Episode 36 - How I Got My Super Nintendo Part 1
Jun 20, 2016
Episode 35 - Interview Wiggy From Rose Colored Gaming
Jun 13, 2016
Episode 34 - Collecting On A Budget And Collecting For The 3DS- Guest The3DSCollector
Jun 06, 2016
Episode 33 - CQ News & PS1 and Saturn Price Spikes
May 30, 2016
Episode 32 - Interview NintendoTwizer & Wii Collecting
May 23, 2016
Episode 31 - Disney Games & Collecting
May 16, 2016
Episode 30 - Captain America Games
May 09, 2016
Episode 29 - The Nintendo NX, The New Zelda And What Will Happen To The WiiU?
May 02, 2016
Episode 28 - Playstation Vita & More
Apr 25, 2016
Episode 27 - The Most Expensive NES Games And Where To Find Value
Apr 18, 2016
Episode 26 - The Sega Master System
Apr 11, 2016
Episode 25 -NES Top 5
Apr 04, 2016
Episode 24 -Motivation
Mar 21, 2016
Episode 23 - Who Hates Bubble Mailers? We Do!
Mar 14, 2016
Episode 22 - Kat & Johnny Chat With Sixteen_Bit
Mar 07, 2016
Episode 21 - Kat & Johnny Take A Sick Day
Feb 29, 2016
Episode 20 - Interview Dain Anderson Founder Of Nintendo Age
Feb 22, 2016
Episode 19 - Repros, Home Brew, and Pirates
Feb 15, 2016
Episode 18 - How to Deal with Collection Envy and Other Questions.
Feb 08, 2016
Episode 17 - SPORTSBALL!!! and Rare Sports Game
Feb 01, 2016
Episode 16 - TheyCallMeSolo Interview
Jan 25, 2016
Episode 15 -Game Spotlight Comix Zone & Faxanadu
Jan 18, 2016
Episode 14 -SoCal Retro Gaming Expo - Interview With SuperVideoGameBros
Jan 12, 2016
Episode 13 -Game Boy's And Which To Smuggle
Jan 05, 2016
Episode 12 - Happy New Year
Dec 29, 2015
Episode 11 - Collecting Star Wars Games
Dec 16, 2015
Episode 10 - TheVGDB Nick Morgan Interview
Dec 14, 2015
Episode 4 (9) - Final Fantasy 7 And Kickle Cubicle
Dec 08, 2015
Episode 3 (8) - Retro Gaming Holiday Memories
Nov 30, 2015
Episode 3 (7) - Conventions
Nov 24, 2015
Episode 2 (6) -Speed Racer Mountain Bike Rally Combo Cart For Super Nintendo
Nov 11, 2015
Episode 1 (5) - A New Host - Katselvania
Oct 27, 2015