"Knock it off, or i will destroy your life's work" Brings a tear to my eye.

Tim Atwood isn't a hero the retro game market deserves, but a hero this hobby needs. It's time for a revolution.

Best podcast in months. Not just in video games, but in ALL collector markets, it's always the quietest veterans with the best collections who know they don't need to flex nuts, because they know they got 'em.

Pat was drooling like crazy. He had the junkie shakes.

Rarebucky doing damage control is priceless

One of the best videos I've watched on the channel, not only for topic but for the joy from both Ian and Pat.

“I’ll never meet you, Tim, but thank you so much”. Give it a couple years, Pat.

It's nice to see there are still real collectors out there. I've been collecting for 20 years and since all this nonsence started over prices, rarity, size of ones collection and youtube views the last couple of years the hobby has gone from a true enjoyment to stressful agony. The way the people at the front line of the hobby have been acting has really turned me away from collecting. EVERYBODY is a RESELLER!

God that NA thread was a wreck last time I tried to read it. Thanks for distilling it down to something comprehensible.

PAT AND IAN ARE ORACLES! THEY FORESAW THIS DAY!!

dude that's INSANE, I am FAR from a hardcore 100% elite collector but I love stories like these

This is glorious! SEEEEEEAAAAAALEEEEED x6

This is beautiful!

Wow that Tim Atwood guy is a fucking OG, maximum respect !!!!!!!!!!!

If you choose to "invest" in a market as volatile and unpredictable as retro games, you only have yourself to blame when someone opens up e.g. an old warehouse tomorrow and the warehouse just happens to be packed to the rafters with shipping crates full of sealed copies of that über rare game you "invested" in. I completely agree as a (mostly wannabe) collector (mostly of PC games atm) that I see no reason to buy multiple copies of the same game. I would also never buy a game because "I can flip this on eBay for many monies!" - if I stumbled onto a copy of, say, LSD: Dream Emulator for 5 bucks at a thrift shop (you never know), I'd buy it *because "that's a bargain and a game (?) I want to try"*, not because "I could get over 200 bucks for this thing on eBay!".

SEEEEEEEEAAALED

A hanky? SAVAGE!! Lol

The smile on Pat's face makes me happy.

I'm glad that more of these are found, prices of retro games are outrageous! I want to get back into NES again but the prices are outrageous. I don't want to collect them for the sake of collecting...I want to get into it so I can PLAY the games....(without emulation or NOAC systems)

We need more collectors like him back in the hobby. Too many value hunters in todays day and age. I just want it to go back to the way it used to be.

I have a friend who collects comic books. He has a few that people don't know exist, and he doesn't care to change that. There are a lot of collectors in every hobby who don't feel the need to brag. You guys are right I guarantee there are more of these out there that are not owned by total cocks.

SEEEALED!

Thanks, Tim! Hope you decide to put a few of these up for sale and destroy the value for asshats that want to corner the market. :)

Somewhere out there are boxes of sealed copies of Earthbound and Panzer Dragoon Saga.

Thanks guys , awesome podcast , shared it on Twitter and Fb

Pat the NES Punk please do a more in-depth exposes on these sellers!! People need to get this information! Jerks like this Adam guy are ruining this hobby!

Great topic, was really good information on a lot of behind the scenes. :)

LOL nice to see Pat so excited about a topic :)

As we continue along the timeline, we're going to hear more and more about these collectors/collections- much in the way classic cars were being found in barns and hidden away, there's a ton of unknowns out there in the world of gaming. Sealed systems, periphs and games are in the hands of all manner of collector, and we probably only hear about a fraction of them.

Six sealed Stadium Events confirmed before Half-Life 3. What are the odds?

I sold about 40- boxes or so of sealed GB games (some full of games, some empty and used for padding) (kept one of each game for me) to a collector that has a warehouse full of SNES and NES sealed games. Like 200 Chrono Triggers etc. So yeah there are out there. Edit: Just learned that he passed away Recently. R.I.P Ray.

This is good news. I really hope that he decides to pull the trigger and release them into the wild. I don't give two shits about the value of the games. I collect because I love video games. Make the rarest games super common for all I care! You screw over the asshats who horde games and artificially drive up the "value", and help people like me who just want the games in our collection.

Glad to see one of my suggestions made it to the podcast!

I've been a fan for at least five years and this is the best video ever.

Thanks Pat for sharing buddy!

You were right pat. And you just talked about this very recently!! Crazy...

I've watched this episode no fewer than ten times. Nothing but ear to ear grins. Feels nice to get a true breath of life in something I've enjoyed for so long.

Unbelievable. FANTASTIC vid, great discussion, and legendary reveal.

Funny you guys joked about something like this happening not to long ago.

I'm glad Ian touched on something I was going to ask. I'm so used to comic book and M:tG collecting that some of these numbers blow my mind. I can't fathom having six beta Black Lotus being found in some garage moving the price of the card much at all. Tarmogoys were $200, got reprinted to where thousands more entered the market, and it actually spiked in price a little bit before trickling back down to just barely under $200 So for a game to be $10,000 or whatever price, and *six* entering collector knowledge crashes the price is completely alien to me.

SEEAAAAAALLLLLLLEEED

I'd love to see a bomb like this dropped in the turbo collector scene. After losing my collection in a fire, the the prices have gone up so much I gave up on even trying to get my collection back. And I know for a fact there are people who collect that have hundreds of games for it. A store I use to go to in Tennessee to buy from back in the late nineties, early two thousands had boxes upon boxes of hucards. It's a shame they closed down

Great podcast guys! Keep up the good work!

Is it just me or do I need a video of pat saying seeeeeaaaalllleeedddd over and over again. Something is so satisfying about it hahah

He should go to a grading/slabbing company. and get them to open the packing box and get them all graded at 100 as they are mint from the box.

You have no idea how happy this makes me.

So friggin funny and ironic this happened. You guys just touched on this in one of your last podcasts.

AMAZING segment guys

You're right Pat, there are a lot of us out there who have a "solid" collection that don't advertise it on KZfaq and forums. Some people might not have ever stopped collecting NES since 1985. Some people probably bought hundreds of sealed NES games on closeouts and never opened them. Not saying that there are a lot of Stsdium events left, but there are those of us out there that could open our collections to the public and change the market.

My favorite part of the last podcast :)

didn't expect to see this happen so early!

lol oh pat, u and your stadium events

Wow they talk about this like every week. (Its basically the example when anything else gets discovered "What if it was Stadium Events?") It'll be so interesting to see what happens now. I'm excited to keep up on this.

just like my sealed EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly) magazines that i still have most of them brand new sealed since 1989 to late 1990's that i was a subscriber since they began and always received 2 copies of each magazine... Priceless! Also have other brand gaming magazines of that time along with my mint SNES boxed system and one time played mint Nintendo 64 (played once) and was put in its original boxed since the day it came out! Priceless for me... Ya remember when 7 Elevens use to have Arcade machines in their stores? Yup, i couldn't stop playing the greatest fighting game ever in there.... Street Fighter 2....

So glad you nailed it!

this is the only topic i love to listen or watch and repeat over and over again coz this is the best thing thats happen in retrogaming history

so what is the general consensus behind how to sell sealed items in small quantities? I've got a handful of the GameCube kiosk games oct01 and jan02 discs. each time I sell one it seems to lower the overall value of what I have left. in this case do you just not sell and sit on it?

Kinda reminds me of when I used to actively collect comics in the late 70s through the 90s. There was issue #27 and 28 or Peter Parker The Spectacular Spider-Man I think it was. The title tended to go into the quarter boxes, so these numbers did, too. Then the artist for those two issues (Frank Miller) got popular with his version of Daredevil, which als appeared in those issues. Suddenly, because those two issues represented MIller's first Daredevil work, you suddenly had people tearing apart those quarter boxes looking for the titles, and the value shot up virtually overnight. But then, hoping to make a hefty profit you had many of these same collectors dump them on the market, and just as fast as the value went up, it went down. Another one was a giveaway title, Major Inapak The Space Ace, from 1951. Had artwork from legendary artist Bob Powell in his prime. There were a few of them on the market, and again, price shot up. Then around the mid-70s a warehouse full of them was found. I have a copy I found at a comic store in the mid-90s I paid a whole buck for. Look on Ebay and there's a wide range of prices with 51 cents being the low end and I think I saw one for $129.99 (seriously overpriced). But yeah, I guess it isn't surprising that this would happen with games as well.

I'm not a video game collector, I collect comic books. As such this video is amazing. I have a completely private collection and really respect this guy. God bless his and you guys!

This man has been sittin back for years like Mr Burns ....... Excellent

yes have been collecting since 1990 myself, and few ppl have seen my collection. there are many collectors who could destroy the prices.

With the story of Stadium Events, I wouldn't be surprised if a storage unit or two are packed full of them, I mean, the ones pulled off of store shelves didn't just disappear, and if 6 were revealed, who knows how many more are in private collections, the price could go from $30,000 to $3 if more Stadium Events are found. This is exciting news, and I can't wait to hear more hard to find games be found.

I demand an animation of a seal version of Pat clapping its hands and singing, "SEAAALED! SEAAALED!"

I love it when Pat says "SEALED"!

This makes me happy! I really hope things like this continue to happen, and drive games back down to sane prices that the normal collector can afford. I would love to have a complete collection, but I also want to actually play the games. I guess I get the whole sealed in box thing, but it's really disheartening that when you see prices of things on eBay. Hopefully, this is a step in a more positive direction for the hobby. A big win for the "little guys."

I think another point is that with all the other G1 collectors out there within the same age group there could be several different collections hitting the market at around the same time as they pass/get out of it ect.

1st generation collector is like Good Guy Greg.

I know Bucky and he's kind of a doushe. I refuse to deal with him anymore, but his auctions are quite interesting to watch. It's crazy what some 'collectors' will pay for 'rare' games!

I know there's a retro store owner who owned a Video store in northern Ontario who told me he has tones of sealed NES, SNES, Genesis games he never sold. There's lots of ppl who don't sell like this.

As a newer NA member this video was flipping awesome.

There could be a lot of things around. LOL this is great. Whoever you are thanks dude.

They say this is going to happen every podcast then finally boom it happens

Video Game Collecting GONE SEXUAL

Reminds me of my uncle. Once I found a box of 30 sealed SNES games in a storage room and a cib mint copy of Earthbound. I have never been in his house either ironically.

Pat is very admirable on this. He is not seeking a "top dog" status in this hobby, but he is being an honest voice. Big props!

this just made my day!

Wooo. Awesome channel!

Very cool collector. His collection must be amazing.

I'd like to be a part of this sandwich buying process...

Kotaku has an article on the game today, apparently a copy sold for $41,977

From a kid collectors point of view, I think that there will be more of these boxes because they could be still in the back of an old funcoland (I dont know if I spelled that right) or something, I think that retro video game collectors should l go out hunting and go to theses old stores and go in the back and see if there is any old stock left

I just love this podcast

I guess I would be a second gen collector. Have been collecting my whole life. Still my first NES my dad bought me in the late eighties. I really like to see collectors do this its neat and im glad. But these are threats and I would like to see some action because these sellers will not stop unless you destroy their market. Also Pat, Ian love the show!

It's about time. Good call guys.

things are getting extreme!

lol the sellers "Prenup" love it...

Video game prices are getting out of control right now. Glad to see more copies of Stadium Events are out there.

does this affect the value of an individual copy though? surely no one would be willing to split up this case, i mean, wouldn't it be worth more altogether like this anyway?

The only issue I can see with the guys photo is he has an ebay listing with plenty of high resolution photos. In other words, this photo released was low resolution on purpose.

Ian gets so excited at the thought of licking tears off of hoarders that he seems to be doing something "Strange" under the desk a @14:38 .... ;-)

Even by hardcore collector standards Tim Atwood is insane.

This calls for a new segment on the podcast: "Retro... Hero... Of... The Week!"

Uh oh. Pat's 401k retirement just decreased in value. 😂

Here in Chile we have to deal with this kind of scumbags too. Actually the biggest problem with the retro market here put price tags based on Ebay prices wich are based on the rarity a game has in the US. Prices for games like Mega Man X2, X3 and Turtles in Time have skyrocketed during the last few years despite they're rather common in this country. I hope you guys are right and this bubble pops soon.

nailed it nestrodamus

how did i miss this!? im on nintendoage all the times! this is awesome XD the next big holy grail of nes collecting :P

Rarebucky used to come into the store I used to work at all the time and he was a really really nice guy

I love to hear these kinds of things. Not that i could ever afford a very good collection anyway but it makes dreams more realistic.

Rest in Peace Tim

"He who can destroy a thing controls a thing." ~Maud'dib/Tim Atwood