CQ 275 - Preorder This Episode
Talking about some random cheap tat that comes with games. Mostly pre-order bonuses, but also some Atari stuff to maintain Tyler's interest in cheap tat.
Jun 24, 2025•2 hr 51 min
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Episodes
CQ 274 - Nintendo Launched Another Console? (NOT CLICKBAIT)
We're talking about Nintendo's console launches and the collectible future of different types of Switch 2 games.
Jun 12, 2025•2 hr 27 min
CQ 273 - Everything's Going to Zero
We play devil's advocate and make the bear case for physical video games as a collectible category. Also a lot of discussion about whether Spider-man will be relevant in 500 years.
May 27, 2025•2 hr 29 min
CQ 272 - iam8bit situation is crazy
So you want to collect iam8bit. Wait, what? Yes.
May 14, 2025•2 hr
CQ 271 - Is your "CIB" good enough?
CQ 271 - Is your "CIB" good enough? by Johnny & Tyler
May 01, 2025•2 hr 4 min
CQ 270 - It's time to fix your collection: Spring Cleaning
CQ 270 - It's time to fix your collection: Spring Cleaning by Johnny & Tyler
Apr 17, 2025•3 hr
CQ 269 - Ten Turbografx/PC-Engine Games We'd Start Collecting
Finally, an episode where we can talk about Beyond Shadowgate, the second best Bomberman game, and $700 Neutopia games no one really cares about.
Mar 31, 2025•2 hr 44 min
CQ 268 - 20 Reasons Modern Collecting Sucks (and like 2 it's the best)
Two old men enumerate why collecting modern games is generally less interesting and see if it's just a nostalgia thing or the olden days really were the golden days.
Mar 17, 2025•3 hr 6 min
CQ 267 - Does Xbox 360 Have Anything Collectible?
We're looking at the most expensive, rarest collectible Xbox 360 games and determining if any of this stuff is worth our time in a sea of junky collectors editions.
Feb 24, 2025•3 hr 26 min
CQ 266 - IMPOSSIBLE Collector Dilemmas
We're talking about the best versions of games and other collecting dilemmas. Do you get the rare variant or the early variant? American or Japanese? Busted original version vs. remake with all the DLC? Nicer condition or better variant?
Feb 12, 2025•2 hr 57 min
CQ 265 - The $200 modern game situation is crazy
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.
Jan 27, 2025•2 hr 59 min
CQ 264 - Collecting the 1980s (as old Nintendo tapes)
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.
Jan 13, 2025•3 hr
CQ 263 - A 2024 Market Recap for your Holiday Car Trip
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 file.
Dec 24, 2024•3 hr 42 min
CQ 263 - 2024 recap (Old upload, broke on Spotify)
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.
Dec 19, 2024•3 hr 42 min
CQ 262 - What are "Indie" games and are they worth collecting?
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.
Dec 09, 2024•3 hr 4 min
CQ 261 - The Worst Gift Ideas 2024
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.
Nov 28, 2024•2 hr 21 min
CQ 260 - CQ Before Dark
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.
Nov 12, 2024•3 hr 8 min
CQ 259 - Historic Halloween Firsts
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.
Oct 28, 2024•2 hr 20 min
CQ 258 - The Official Set of NES Halloween Games
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.
Oct 15, 2024•2 hr 24 min
CQ 257 - Stephen King's Games (of the books you didn't read)
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.
Sep 30, 2024•2 hr 19 min
CQ 256 - Are games without skill ceilings eternally collectible?
We're talking about games you can devote years to without ever becoming the best, which is largely esports games but also chess and mahjong?
Sep 18, 2024•3 hr 25 min
CQ 255 - Reacting to Recent Ridiculous Sales
We are clicking the drop down menu and selecting Sort By Highest Price and looking at recent sealed market and Ebay sales and discussing what's on top right now.
Sep 01, 2024•3 hr 19 min
CQ 254 - The Greatest Greatest Hits
(Reupload to fix the last 4 minutes). We're talking about budget labels like Players Choice, Greatest Hits, and Platinum Hits, which ones we find interesting, which ones are expensive, and whether any of this junk is really worth collecting.
Aug 19, 2024•3 hr 17 min
CQ 253 - So You Want to Collect Nintendo 64
A long episode about collecting a beloved, okay video game console.
Aug 03, 2024•4 hr 5 min
CQ 252 - sharks
It's CQ Shark Week. That time of year we talk about the electromechanical gun game from Jaws that once sold for $15,000 and Shark! Shark! on Intellivision which once sold for as high as $15.
Jul 22, 2024•1 hr 54 min
CQ 251 - Video Games NOBODY Collects
It's one of those episodes where we're going to talk about the merits of the View-Master Interactive Vision, HTC Dream cell phone, and that Oregon Trail handheld thing, if those have any merits at all.
Jul 09, 2024•1 hr 59 min
CQ 250 - The most CONTROVERSIAL cartridge tier list
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Jun 28, 2024•3 hr 40 min
CQ 249 - Every Pokemon Game.
EVERY Pokemon game. The Windows computer games, the Sega Pico Beena games, the Pokemon Mini games. But yeah, mostly the mainline handheld games that people actually care about.
Jun 11, 2024•3 hr 26 min
CQ 248 - Easy Inserts You're Missing
We're talking some specific inserts preventing your games from being 100% complete, from Zelda games to the highly collectible EA Sports Genesis games.
May 24, 2024•1 hr 29 min
CQ 247 - Collecting Boxes Tier List
This is a 4 hour show where we talk about how much we like every console's boxes. That's the show. Odyssey 2's cardboard gatefold boxes up through modern trashy eco-cases. It's four hours of that. Four hours talking about whether we like boxes. Four hours.
May 10, 2024•4 hr 4 min
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