The Collector's Quest

Jan 26 2025 280 ep. 99 mins 365

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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!

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CQ 265 - The $200 modern game situation is crazy

Jan 26 2025 178 mins

We're talking about every single modern game that costs $200+ (that isn't some weird release or special edition) and coming to the conclusion that not only is collecting modern games affordable, but you don't even want the games that cost this much.

CQ 264 - Collecting the 1980s (as old Nintendo tapes)

Jan 12 2025 180 mins

Johnny takes us on a journey of collecting the "most 1980s" games, meaning games that embody pop culture of the decade like Knight Rider, Tron, and Smurfs.

CQ 263 - A 2024 Market Recap for your Holiday Car Trip

Dec 24 2024 221 mins

We're recapping the price trends, interest trends, big sales, and how we collected in 2024. Grab the aux cable because this is 3 hours of pure, unfiltered hobby entertainment you can subject your family to while you're driving up to grandma's for Christmas in Delaware This is a complete re-upload to fix a Spotify issue. If your episode shows as 3:41:42, you already have the right

CQ 263 - 2024 recap (Old upload, broke on Spotify)

Dec 19 2024 221 mins

This podcast should be 3:41:42. If it’s 3:42:01, the last hour is out of sync and your app has an out of date file. As far as I know, only Spotify was affected. I’m keeping this file up in case you have the correct file and you’re mid episode.

CQ 262 - What are "Indie" games and are they worth collecting?

Dec 08 2024 184 mins

We're looking a physical indie releases from 2004-2019 to find obscure, underappreciated, and usually very cheap releases of some of the most popular games.

CQ 261 - The Worst Gift Ideas 2024

Nov 27 2024 140 mins

We enter the world of gifts for gamer blog posts to discuss how terrible the affiliate link spam has become. It is maybe impossible to find genuine recommendations for gifts anymore.

CQ 260 - CQ Before Dark

Nov 11 2024 188 mins

An episode where we discuss common game collecting topics in general without much focus similar to CQ After Dark. Johnny wanted to call this "Tyler Talk" but I think everyone would skip an episode named Tyler Talk.

CQ 259 - Historic Halloween Firsts

Oct 27 2024 140 mins

We're talking the KEY horror and Halloween games from the early days, from interesting survival horror games, to stupid the stupid obscure first appearances of Frankenstein...'s monster.

CQ 258 - The Official Set of NES Halloween Games

Oct 15 2024 143 mins

We are discussing Johnny's objective* system for separating Halloween games from horror from dark fantasy to determine the official subset of NES Halloween games.

CQ 257 - Stephen King's Games (of the books you didn't read)

Sep 29 2024 139 mins

There are a handful of Stephen King games from proto-ebooks to the official Worst Adventure Game Ever Made. They're probably from his books you haven't read for some reason.