I attended with my brother and went to your Q&A. He's the one who asked the long question that got a response from both you and your wife. He's really good at asking questions like that. I was the guy with the long hair who asked about the museum progress. I know it'll be a journey for you to achieve your goal but I really wish you the best of luck as that would be really incredible to share your amazing collection with the world in that way. It was great meeting you and I will definitely continue going to this expo as it was a really fun time! Thanks for being you John, you bring a lot of smiles into the world. =D

Probably the most contagious smile and positive attitude In the retro community. Legendary 🤙🎮

It was nice chatting with you at the show, John! See you at PRGE!

It's very cool that you came to Canada. You're a great You Tuber and Retro Gamer!

Glad you made it safe and had a great time. Awesome to see the lovely wife.

Amazing video, John. I especially like the fact that your wife came along. She really looked like she was enjoying those cheese snacks. I hope she didn't get addicted to them. We have the equivalent over here 8n the UK and I can't get enough of them. I would love to see a video on the Telstar arcade as I have never seen one before and it looks amazing. Like 3 consoles in one. Anyway, Keep up the amazing videos, John. I always look forward from a new video from you.

2:54 AtariAge member Lathe26 here; it was wonderful to meet you as well John. Overall at VRGE, I met great folks, had wonderful conversations, and ate fantastic POUTINE!!!

Glad to see Mrs. Immortal. Looks like a fun trip.

Game Deals have always been cool to me every time. Great convention and great to meet you brother!

If I wasn't immediately allergic to people I would do this. Thanks for doing it for me!

Looking forward to this , hoping to visit Canada soon .

Oh my goodness; Super Cobra Copter!!! I didn't know the name of that thing! I had that when I was 6 years old. Even before I had a Nintendo; that was one of my first gaming experiences!!

You are the king when it comes to convention/pick up videos.

Such a wonderful video... A lot of nostalgia! Thanks, John!

It was great to see the Eternal Mrs. Hancock. Looks like y'all had a fun time! I want that breakfast at the end. Looked awesome!

i used to live there, glad you two got to take the trip together !!

that game store was amazing edit: the stunt cycle, you legend!

It was awesome to meet you John! Thanks for the awesome time with your panel.

Great call on the Hawkins!

Wha wha whaaaat?? You're in my area! Enjoy you're visit John!!

Cool! I literally drive by Brian's shop everyday on my way to work! Great shop (i don't collect, i just emulate, but i love just going in and taking a look every once in awhile, because at 45 years old i grew up on retro gaming....i sure wish i'd kept all the system's i've owned lol).

Awesome to see you come to Canada, as a fan and long time viewer of MJR and you also, as a canadian myself, it makes me very happy haha!

Wow, what an amazing experience you and your wife had at this expo. It's awesome that you took time and were given the opportunity to speak with a group of folks about collecting and passing information on to those folks about the world of collecting and why it's important to you. It's always a really cool thing to see all of the things you did during your trip that you don't normally get to see otherwise. Being a physical media collector as well, is great to see that with all of the different avenues out there to play video games is still very much alive but the digital sense is good also for folks who simply want to play these games and have fun without breaking the bank. Awesome job with the vid and message as always John. 🤟🔥

Hancock in the Royal City glad you had fun. We are pretty lucky here..great local video game stores close by and 2 Arcades and great food and scenery. nice pickups

Wow, awesome look at the store, very nice. Great selection you brought home with you as well 👍

hawkins cheezies!! i'm canadian, and i cant get enough of them.

John! That’s where I grew up!! That Retro Game Store is done! 🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦

Cheezies chips and Coffee Crisp chocolate bars are my personal favorites.

Another great episode John damn we don't get alot of these around me in Lincoln UK have to travel but always worth it Top work man

Glad you enjoyed Canada, great video John!

LOL, the black-haired guy in the very front of the room at 1:17 is me.

Nice to see Mrs. Hancock in a video. Looks like you all had a great time!

Was awesome to meet you at the show! Thanks for taking the time to chat!

Love the channel JH & enjoyed watching your excursion up here.

I really enjoyed this video. Thanks. So awesome. Retro consoles and games.

Great Video! Didn’t know they had a gaming expo, and by the looks, it’s a great turn out!

I remember Brøderbund software! I played their games on my Stepdad's Apple 2+, it wasn't the greatest color monitor but it was still pretty good color! Choplifter, SeaFox and SkyBlazers were my tweens and early teens! 😎

I have that radio shack caveman tabletop game you showed at the booth with the boxed gunfighter. Couldn't make out what they were asking on it. I paid 10 for min at an estate sale. Really cool to see another one.

I think that TRON VHS tape at 4:27 is the re-release from 1995 considering the original VHS release from December 1982 was in a clamshell with a white spine and backside. I guess Disney slapped that "Disney New Release" sticker on everything in the 1990s, even re-releases.

Rob man seem like the coolest dude to hang out with. Great video

Its so cool to see a physical store with AES games. I sometimes see MVS carts, but never AES, much less Neo Turf Masters. Warms the heart and lightens the bank account

Welcome to Canada. One item to be on the lookout for is the rare NTSC version of the Commodore Amiga CD32 console that was ONLY released in Canada. I remember seeing it back in the day in some stores in downtown Winnipeg when it came out. It never came out in the U.S. and the other more common versions of the CD32 from Europe are all PAL versions. Only Canada got the NTSC version of the CD32.

Thank-you for the Canadian tour, #JohnHancock!! 😎👍

Great video, John. It was nice to see your lovely wife. I need to find one of these expos on the east coast. Thanks for the video.

Ketchup chips and cheezies! ❤️ 🇨🇦 glad to see you make up here!

Looks like a great expo. We had that Wico Boss joystick with our C64, but the metal shaft broke... Cool to see those C64 carts. Over the last couple of years, I've not had the chance to get to any shows/fairs, so I hope I can make one later in the year.

Awesome stuff John!

Hey John! It was one awesome day, thanks for coming! Kinda sad to wait till next year! What about your own panel? I was hoping to see some coverage on this video and the pics we took all together:)

Mrs. Hancock made an appearance. Sweet!

Hagelslag op een pannenkoek! That’s Dutch allright 😄 Greetings from the Netherlands

It was a great show and it was so nice to go to a convention or an expo again post-covid. John inadvertently deserves an assist for my top score from the show. I was coming from the bathroom and saw him at the table with the Telestar and overheard him say "nice to see some really old stuff" and I thought "old stuff? Better check this out!" And at that table I landed Thunder Castle for the Intellivision which I've been looking for for years. Common Intellivision stuff is cheap and easy to find but I rarely see any of the post-crash games. I made good use of the Game deals table with all the common stuff as well as I took advantage once the price went to 2 bucks. Though that paled in comparison to a guy I spotted filling up a box with his total coming to over $60. So over 30 games in one purchase! I find it very amusing that you introduced your wife to Cheezies. I wasn't even aware that a was a Canadian thing. And I also spotted Crispy Crunch so you've got good taste. I do the same thing when I go to the States where I prioritize American snacks and restaurants I don't have here.

As a Canadian...I hope you have an amazing time and be safe😎🍻🍺

Outstandingly awesome!👉😃👈

Hi John, I was there this year and I got Literally 70 PS3 Games amongst other things, but I was hoping to talk with you for a few minutes but my friends were going in 2 ways at once, so around, maybe 420, excuse the expression,lol, I said your name by the entrance to the Anvil, and you said, yes( made sense, really) And I think I said I watched your webshow and big fan and all, my point is, I am glad that you and your wife had a great time as we did having you here. And I am also going to be there again next year and I really, this time, hope to see, and chat, with you at that Con. Thanks 👍

I'm a Canadian on the East Coast. we are all pretty awesome for the most part.

This is a dream conference, John.

Beautiful. If you can get out to Langley we have Willow Video (which has been selling/renting games for my entire life and has been featured on Linus' stuff) and Randy's on the one way. We have a good community

Good choice on the snacks John! Ketchup chips are a well known Canadian custom, but Hawkins cheezies are the best! Super crunchy and great with Mountain Dew

Nice pickups :)

Man, I'm jealous. Can't even get my wife to go to lunch with me, much less a gaming convention...

Looked like they had some cool stuff there. I liked that black NES hot seat. I have the grey one and would love to have both next to one another.

I was very impressed with the NEO-GEO MVS cartridge collection

Very cool show but I think the Long Island Expo was the best I ever went to. The combo it the video games and the jets was amazing.

wow vic 20 carts fantastic!

Love her sunglasses!!

Good video thanks.

Cheezies are a good junk food to have on-hand if someone you know can't eat gluten. Or, before gluten-free foods were more commonplace, people with Coeliac's disease would often get them a lot.

Nice Zeller carts! That is a collection I want to complete.

I'm Canadian and I didn't know those were Canadian snacks. Except the ketchup chips.

Shout out to Canada‼️🤘🍁

I absolutely loved Cadbury crunchie chocolate bars in Australia here I never ever ever tried the Canadian version in my life span altogether here I will eventually one day

Hawkins Cheezies are AMAZING

That's a great deal man

Haha she knows those cheesies are good 😂😂

You're making me homesick 🙂 I used to go to New West a lot as a kid/adult. Glad you had a great time 😊 How long did you stay in British Columbia?

Hey what do you use to keep track of your massive collection? App? SPREADSHEET????

Dutch pancakes 😍

For you going to Canada everything will be cheaper for you because of the currency exchange. The american $ is worth a lot more. I've never been to Vancouver. It's too far for me since I live in the east end of Canada in Quebec.

Great video! Does anyone have a copy of the group photo John’s wife took at the end of the panel?

Come to Barrie Ontario! You can watch a Canadian football game in my basement with my creepy weird husband!

Are you going to be at MoGameCon this year?

You mentioned “Canadian variations”. So you may have noticed some Genesis games have multi languages on the back, like the European boxes. One stand out is Sonic 1, the boring box that I have. I have friends that had Genesis games that were actually “Mega Drive” labels. How common were these?, and did these ever get sold in the USA?

Accurate. LOL

are Canadian games PAL or NTSC?

I need Cheesies in my life!

Yeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeah 😎👊🙏

Crunchie is our Aussie chocolate bar :P its not Canadian!

Oh man I thought you were going moose hunting or something

cockadoodle ketchup chips!

your going for a moose??

Cheezies and ketchup chips are my favorite. You should make a trip to Vancouver island, there are several excellent game stores within in just a couple of hours drive.