Having worked for Big Blue (not the computer company) for a good five+ years while in college, I still smell the musty carpet in my nose. From the start of the N64 era up to late PS1/ start of the PS2 era basically. But it was glorious being able to rent five free games (or movies) a week working there. All to be able to tell folks about them was the purpose. Collecting now in general just sucks. Not like it was a few years ago even. With you on that on "hoovering" and picking up. I also go out with a target in mind if I look at all lately. Salamander and Salamander 2 were A-MAZING in the arcade if you could find it.
I worked for Netflix for 10 years. We would have Friday “metrics” meetings where Reid would go over the subscriber numbers, news and at the end of the meeting, Blockbuster closings in the Bay Area. I have zero love for Blockbuster because they came to my town and buried Family Video in Pleasanton. Oh, and the $32 late charge I accrued for T2.
So you as employees would all high five together because the success you shared at Netflix resulted in the closing down of Blockbusters, Yet you have extreme disdain for Blockbuster itself because that very same success resulted in the closing of your precious childhood Family Video? Hmmmmm.
I’m 29, and I went to Blockbuster or Hollywood video every week and rented movies. I don’t know if I ever went to a mom and pop rental shop though. I don’t even know if I ever even saw one growing up. So I think a lot of the nostalgia for Blockbuster is probably coming from people like me in their late 20s or early 30s who grew up in the time after Blockbuster had already put the mom and pop stores out of business. For most of us, Blockbuster was probably the only rental service we ever used
Great video brother! I really wish that more people would talk about the PC Engine but I understand since it never was popular here in North America. At least you’re in the States and don’t have to pay the conversion and shipping charges like we do in Canada. I also started my PC Engine collecting just under a year and a half ago and I’ll never own the super expensive titles ($1000+) but there are certainly plenty more to choose from that are great! Cheers, Joe
I've also been collecting PCE pretty hardcore for the last 18 months, starting from nothing. First I got a beautiful, modded and restored briefcase unit from an eBay guru for a pittance. It's very dangerous financially to get into it, but what a unique system. So I still proceeded to spend...many thousands (embarrassed to say just how many) on both HuCard and CIB CD-Rom games. And that doesn't include Sapphire or Magical Chase, the games that are $1k+. The system captures that late 80's / early 90's vibe better than anyone, particularly the feeling from arcade games of that era. Nothing else really like it; the Genesis captured a little of that era too, but not as well.
I was such a fool when I was a young guy. I absolutely refused to give the Turbo Grafx 16 a chance. If it wasn't the Sega Genesis/Sega CD, Snes, or Neo Geo it wasn't even worth my time looking at it. I thought the TG-16 was an inferior console on every level and it took many years of collecting to actually start looking at it. When Konami released the PC Engine/Core Grafx/TG-16 mini I rushed to get one as fast as I could. I wound up missing the TG-16 and got a Core Grafx. When I first started playing those games that's when it really hit me...I made a huge mistake. Thankfully, it's one I have been working on rectifying as fast as I can Addendum- This was a superb video and I thank you for showing me a game I'm not familiar with (Mr. Heli). When you first showed the case I was almost positive it was a spirt successor to Tiger Heli but I was mistaken. At any rate, bravo sir you have made my day and shown me another PCE game I have to pick up. ;)
I remember Blockbuster memberships being kind of a PITA to get in the early-mid 90's, there was a ton of mom n' pop rental places that were more lax. After the 32-bit era though they were basically the only game left in town.
For me, as a little kid in Newark, NJ, it was two local neighborhood rental places called Rosa's Video and Flash Video. Then it became Blockbuster, after we moved to Staten Island, NY right before I started high school. P.S. Randy's girlfriend wasn't murdered, she shot first...she had it coming.
Yeah, I went hard in 2021 on buying PC Engine games. I'm only going for Hu-cards because I don't have a Duo, although I do own an SSDS3. My comfort zone used to say "not over $100!" That's changed for this console...but it's very fun to collect for and I'm trying to curate a library of titles I'm into, not just random games. Also, I've been hoping for a vinyl release of the Star Parodier soundtrack, but that could be said about many PCE games! Some company needs to get on that!
In the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, Blockbuster/Hollywood never could get a foothold. Local chains (some of which were smartly branded and well-run, with many locations) ruled the day as the smartly carried the Spanish-language movies.
I would rent my videos and games from a mixture of places. I wasn’t keen on Ritz Video which became Blockbuster here in England as they didn’t rent imports and were more expensive. Love watching this type of pick ups video as you learn about the games.
Great surprise video, always enjoy your content whether “formal” videos or pick ups like this, your passion shines through and you have a great stance on what brings joy and what is not needed, quality vs quantity
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to a guy talking about PC Engine shooters for an hour. I like this format a lot. If it were the right night, I’d probably drink a six pack listening to it.
Love the episode! Tons of shmups! Which leads me to recommending another UA-cam channel that I think you'll appreciate, shmup junky. Cheers! Edit: ah well, of course you know about that channell whatever was I thinking! Haha!
Voultar tightened that Japan modder up. I did buy one from him and he went into detail explaining his old ways / old method of modding and now his work is super clean. I got it a couple months ago of course i wasn't aware of his past work at the time, but I have zero problems. Even the regular composite video looks pretty darn good. But he did own up to it and acknowledges his past bad work.
I grew up playing Life Force on the NES and I still have my old copy for that console but about 15 years ago I got Salamander for the PC Engine and it's the main version I play these days. I like NES Life Force, its a great port and it represents the American arcade version of Salamander really well incorporating the more Gradius style power up system, but Salamander is incredible and the PC Engine version is SO close to the Japanese arcade version that I'm not sure why it isn't discussed more. I have a port of the arcade original in the Salamander Deluxe Pack Plus for the Sega Saturn and I still play the PC Engine port far more. I'm glad you grabbed it man, it will forever consume you!
I feel kind of the same way. I mean, I do have nostalgia for BB because it's part of my past, and better times, but in terms of renting games, I grew up mostly in NYC and (believe it or not) there weren't really a whole lot of BB's around until, like you said, the late nineties. Although my mom was really generous about games and usually bought my brother and I whatever game we really wanted. Another thing I don't have nostalgia for is those weird middle-Eastern electronics stores in midtown that would literally do about a 100% markup. They would sell NES games for $80 occasionally, and this was when they were usually $40 at the expensive end. You can't get away with that today because of Amazon.
I enjoyed this video because I honestly don't know a lot about PC Engine games. As you mentioned, bithead1000 talked about Nexzer; that's how I knew a little about it. You kinda helped get out a funk of depression, snowy, COLD, cruddy day where I had to miss work. I've always liked the tone of your show; you're not trying to be funny (not saying you're not funny), meaning you're not obnoxious or too loud. You just tell us in great detail about your game and why you like it ... or don't like in the case of 1943. I could definitely see your excitement and passion increase talking about Nexzer! Man, I've always wanted to play that one. I could always get cue cards roms working, but never the CD games. But I'd love to see an ongoing series, pick 5 random PC Engine/Turbo Grafix games/roms, play them, then tell us your thoughts about them. I'm just throwing that out there. Thanks for cheering up my day!🙂
I love your channel! Blockbuster was awesome but they were more expensive than the mom and pop video stores. I have fond memories of walking down the street to Omni Video which was my mom and pop VS. They were cheaper and much more lenient with late fees and would also hold new movies and games for you if you called them. There’s no way blockbuster put mom and pops out of business. If anything they lasted longer than Blockbuster.
I think the nostalgia for Blockbuster is because its universally relatable (compared to the neighborhood Video Villa), and because we're so far removed from that 'comfort food' that we'll take whatever we can get, mega corporation or otherwise
Star Soldier and Nexzr were also my most wanted games. Nexzr is a very expense game but finally bit the bullet in 2021. No regrets. You should look a game called Download for PC Engine. Also enjoyed Image Fight on PC Engine.
Hey, Chris. I didn’t hear you mention so I wasn’t sure if you were aware, there were 3 major versions of Life Force/Salamander in arcades, and the final version was the Japanese version of “Life Force” which retained the Gradius power-up system.
There are a couple of big game channels that do regular "pick-ups" videos. I do tend to enjoy them, but sometimes I wonder how much the content creators really enjoy doing them. I even wonder if they feel it's necessary to keep buying stuff they're not even that interested in just to have content for their channel. I don't think I could ever run a game channel for a living. The things I do and collect for the love of the hobby would probably start to feel forced.
Super Star Soldier was my first soldier game and beating it made me feel like the best video game player in the world! btw fully powered vulcan, which i first seen in SSS, was to be forever known in my house as the Super Star Gun.
I'm exactly the same way with record shopping/pickup videos. I know what I'm looking for when I head to the record store and I buy with a purpose. I see tons of vinyl channels where they just buy armfulls of records, then do a pickup video ripping through all of them.
Yes, EXACTLY. Like nothing insightful to say about any of them. I feel like a lot of people who collect, whether it’s games, vinyl, whatever, they buy what they see everyone else buy. Like when people spread their record collection all over the floor and take a pic to post to /r/vinyl, it’s mostly the same stuff as everyone else. So they don’t have anything interesting to say about it because they didn’t have much of a reason for buying it in the first place.
The PS1 is great for Konami shooters. There are the Gradius and Salamander Deluxe packs, which are compilations of all the early Gradius/Salamander games. Theres also the PS1 exclusive Gradius Gaiden and a port of Parodius.
So is yours the one that Voltar did the video on of cleaning up the DuoR from 'the douche'?? In any case, good stuff man. I need my DuoRX laser looked at as it wont play games. It may need the pots turned but I dont want to kill it. I use a TED 1.1 myself and it has worked good for me for a while now. Funny thing is i keep it in an extra PCE case with the little plastic sleeve that you recently said to get your games out of.
ALL WOMEN: “Who is that oversexed uncle sipping coffee out of a PC Engine mug over there?!?” Me: “That’s Chris from CGQ. Just pretend you never saw him, he’s out of your league. You have no chance, he would just break your heart into a thousand pieces and then go right back to watching Ayrton Senna videos on UA-cam like he always does.”
Yeah, 1943 Kai isn't worth that kind of money as far as the quality of the game itself is concerned. You definitely paid around the going rate for a complete in case copy though. Maybe you should just sell it so you don't always see the game as an eye sore.
I want a yankee candle of the smell of my childhood video rental store (Video Tape Center). I loved all that old cardboard and bad carpets hitting you in the face as soon as you opened the door and heard the door chimes. We also had a rental code that was 3 digits. I remember the week they opened up the Nintendo tape rentals.
just a word of warning... I'm in the process of replacing the NEC logos with my own logo because "reasons" I can't say exactly when i'll complete the process but i have to get it done soonish.
I don't care about Blockbuster coming to town with a better selection and better business model. This is how it goes. Don't like it? Diversify your business, give people a reason to come by. They're were tons of local video rental places all over the Detroit and Grand Rapids suburbs in the 80's, 90's, and early 00's.
I really enjoyed the first Lego Star Wars games when they came out like, what, 20 years ago? Haven’t checked any of them out since then. Are there still good ones?
@@CGQPlus The last one that left quite an impression to me was Drome Racers on GBA, because I was into Lego Technic and Racers theme at that time.Even the music was good.
Yes, I remember absolutely HATING Blockbuster. They had the worst selection, and the worst prices, and then they became the ONLY place around for the most part. How do you run everybody out of business when you're the most expensive??
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Whenever you make these videos, I feel like I’m having a conversation with a friend. Keep ‘em coming Chris.
That intro almost looked like a nod to BitHead lol. Nice mug too man!
All the variations of the PCE are available.
The best part of 1943 Kai is the soundtrack. I share a lot of your same frustrations about it.
Having worked for Big Blue (not the computer company) for a good five+ years while in college, I still smell the musty carpet in my nose. From the start of the N64 era up to late PS1/ start of the PS2 era basically. But it was glorious being able to rent five free games (or movies) a week working there. All to be able to tell folks about them was the purpose.
Collecting now in general just sucks. Not like it was a few years ago even. With you on that on "hoovering" and picking up. I also go out with a target in mind if I look at all lately.
Salamander and Salamander 2 were A-MAZING in the arcade if you could find it.
You are so good at making video games interesting. The beauty is in the details and I love the delivery on every video.
thanks for this video dude. a short break in an otherwise busy and stressful week. CGQ-Engine powering my week.
CGQ wearing a classic racing sweatshirt. The ole Martini livery never goes out of style.
I worked for Netflix for 10 years. We would have Friday “metrics” meetings where Reid would go over the subscriber numbers, news and at the end of the meeting, Blockbuster closings in the Bay Area. I have zero love for Blockbuster because they came to my town and buried Family Video in Pleasanton. Oh, and the $32 late charge I accrued for T2.
So you as employees would all high five together because the success you shared at Netflix resulted in the closing down of Blockbusters, Yet you have extreme disdain for Blockbuster itself because that very same success resulted in the closing of your precious childhood Family Video? Hmmmmm.
Family video was awesome. I remember being an edge lord teen and renting all of the faces of death movies from them 🤣
I picked up a Turbo Mini from Amazon when they released. Star Parodier is one of my favorite games on the console. Just alot of fun.
Agree, bought mine last year also from Amazon. Always wanted to play Bomberman but I ended up getting hooked to Star Parodier quite a bit.
pretty good video, this is how pickups videos should be done, with more substance and tell more info about the games.
I’m 29, and I went to Blockbuster or Hollywood video every week and rented movies. I don’t know if I ever went to a mom and pop rental shop though. I don’t even know if I ever even saw one growing up. So I think a lot of the nostalgia for Blockbuster is probably coming from people like me in their late 20s or early 30s who grew up in the time after Blockbuster had already put the mom and pop stores out of business. For most of us, Blockbuster was probably the only rental service we ever used
You are the only content creator whose pickup videos I like to watch! Keep it up.
“. . . all the beep bop boop . . .”
Now that’s a Bithead1000 term if I’ve ever heard one.
Great job not saying "cute 'em up". I know it's hard. But thank you and this is why you're the best haha
LMAO that intro. I love you, man!
Great video brother! I really wish that more people would talk about the PC Engine but I understand since it never was popular here in North America. At least you’re in the States and don’t have to pay the conversion and shipping charges like we do in Canada.
I also started my PC Engine collecting just under a year and a half ago and I’ll never own the super expensive titles ($1000+) but there are certainly plenty more to choose from that are great!
Cheers, Joe
Fully agree about how most pickup videos are wack. This was great though, I'd gladly take more.
I also watch Adrian's Digital Basement and he often sings the praises of the C64's SID chip - seems like he's not alone in that!
Just got home and got excited a new CGQ+ vid came out in my sub feed, love your videos man!
I've also been collecting PCE pretty hardcore for the last 18 months, starting from nothing. First I got a beautiful, modded and restored briefcase unit from an eBay guru for a pittance. It's very dangerous financially to get into it, but what a unique system. So I still proceeded to spend...many thousands (embarrassed to say just how many) on both HuCard and CIB CD-Rom games. And that doesn't include Sapphire or Magical Chase, the games that are $1k+. The system captures that late 80's / early 90's vibe better than anyone, particularly the feeling from arcade games of that era. Nothing else really like it; the Genesis captured a little of that era too, but not as well.
I was such a fool when I was a young guy. I absolutely refused to give the Turbo Grafx 16 a chance. If it wasn't the Sega Genesis/Sega CD, Snes, or Neo Geo it wasn't even worth my time looking at it. I thought the TG-16 was an inferior console on every level and it took many years of collecting to actually start looking at it. When Konami released the PC Engine/Core Grafx/TG-16 mini I rushed to get one as fast as I could. I wound up missing the TG-16 and got a Core Grafx. When I first started playing those games that's when it really hit me...I made a huge mistake. Thankfully, it's one I have been working on rectifying as fast as I can
Addendum- This was a superb video and I thank you for showing me a game I'm not familiar with (Mr. Heli). When you first showed the case I was almost positive it was a spirt successor to Tiger Heli but I was mistaken. At any rate, bravo sir you have made my day and shown me another PCE game I have to pick up. ;)
Hey Chris glad you're enjoying the Salamander game I sold you. Great video
Thanks again!
I remember Blockbuster memberships being kind of a PITA to get in the early-mid 90's, there was a ton of mom n' pop rental places that were more lax. After the 32-bit era though they were basically the only game left in town.
A very bithead opening! Made me smile!
@36:00 Chris caught Chris in a lil fib ... ^_^
that made me chuckle!
keep up the excellent work ~
For me, as a little kid in Newark, NJ, it was two local neighborhood rental places called Rosa's Video and Flash Video. Then it became Blockbuster, after we moved to Staten Island, NY right before I started high school.
P.S. Randy's girlfriend wasn't murdered, she shot first...she had it coming.
I have nostalgia for BlockBuster and BestBuy but can remember going to the Mom n' Pop shop or local grocery/drug store when I was very young.
Yeah, I went hard in 2021 on buying PC Engine games. I'm only going for Hu-cards because I don't have a Duo, although I do own an SSDS3. My comfort zone used to say "not over $100!" That's changed for this console...but it's very fun to collect for and I'm trying to curate a library of titles I'm into, not just random games. Also, I've been hoping for a vinyl release of the Star Parodier soundtrack, but that could be said about many PCE games! Some company needs to get on that!
In the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, Blockbuster/Hollywood never could get a foothold. Local chains (some of which were smartly branded and well-run, with many locations) ruled the day as the smartly carried the Spanish-language movies.
I would rent my videos and games from a mixture of places. I wasn’t keen on Ritz Video which became Blockbuster here in England as they didn’t rent imports and were more expensive. Love watching this type of pick ups video as you learn about the games.
Great surprise video, always enjoy your content whether “formal” videos or pick ups like this, your passion shines through and you have a great stance on what brings joy and what is not needed, quality vs quantity
I could listen to this dude talk all day long. Very entertaining!
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to a guy talking about PC Engine shooters for an hour. I like this format a lot. If it were the right night, I’d probably drink a six pack listening to it.
Same here.
Love the episode! Tons of shmups!
Which leads me to recommending another UA-cam channel that I think you'll appreciate, shmup junky.
Cheers!
Edit: ah well, of course you know about that channell whatever was I thinking! Haha!
Voultar tightened that Japan modder up. I did buy one from him and he went into detail explaining his old ways / old method of modding and now his work is super clean.
I got it a couple months ago of course i wasn't aware of his past work at the time, but I have zero problems. Even the regular composite video looks pretty darn good. But he did own up to it and acknowledges his past bad work.
That’s good to hear.
I grew up playing Life Force on the NES and I still have my old copy for that console but about 15 years ago I got Salamander for the PC Engine and it's the main version I play these days. I like NES Life Force, its a great port and it represents the American arcade version of Salamander really well incorporating the more Gradius style power up system, but Salamander is incredible and the PC Engine version is SO close to the Japanese arcade version that I'm not sure why it isn't discussed more. I have a port of the arcade original in the Salamander Deluxe Pack Plus for the Sega Saturn and I still play the PC Engine port far more. I'm glad you grabbed it man, it will forever consume you!
I feel kind of the same way. I mean, I do have nostalgia for BB because it's part of my past, and better times, but in terms of renting games, I grew up mostly in NYC and (believe it or not) there weren't really a whole lot of BB's around until, like you said, the late nineties. Although my mom was really generous about games and usually bought my brother and I whatever game we really wanted. Another thing I don't have nostalgia for is those weird middle-Eastern electronics stores in midtown that would literally do about a 100% markup. They would sell NES games for $80 occasionally, and this was when they were usually $40 at the expensive end. You can't get away with that today because of Amazon.
I know you mentioned this but, I feel like if you paid like $40 for 1943 Kai you'd probably not hate it as much. It's too expensive.
Nowadays it's a steal...which is why it's so sad
Your jacket makes me excited for F1 this season. Hopefull Williams can get a few podiums 😊😊😊
regarding the Blockbuster tweet. People on the internet make an issue over ANYTHING. They can't just take other's people's opinions as it is.
Best intro I've ever seen
I enjoyed this video because I honestly don't know a lot about PC Engine games. As you mentioned, bithead1000 talked about Nexzer; that's how I knew a little about it. You kinda helped get out a funk of depression, snowy, COLD, cruddy day where I had to miss work. I've always liked the tone of your show; you're not trying to be funny (not saying you're not funny), meaning you're not obnoxious or too loud. You just tell us in great detail about your game and why you like it ... or don't like in the case of 1943. I could definitely see your excitement and passion increase talking about Nexzer! Man, I've always wanted to play that one. I could always get cue cards roms working, but never the CD games. But I'd love to see an ongoing series, pick 5 random PC Engine/Turbo Grafix games/roms, play them, then tell us your thoughts about them. I'm just throwing that out there. Thanks for cheering up my day!🙂
Great video as always. Genuinely one of the few UA-cam channels I look forward to releasing a new video.
I love your channel! Blockbuster was awesome but they were more expensive than the mom and pop video stores. I have fond memories of walking down the street to Omni Video which was my mom and pop VS. They were cheaper and much more lenient with late fees and would also hold new movies and games for you if you called them. There’s no way blockbuster put mom and pops out of business. If anything they lasted longer than Blockbuster.
I think the nostalgia for Blockbuster is because its universally relatable (compared to the neighborhood Video Villa), and because we're so far removed from that 'comfort food' that we'll take whatever we can get, mega corporation or otherwise
I wonder if being "vincible" is like being "gruntled."
Star Soldier and Nexzr were also my most wanted games. Nexzr is a very expense game but finally bit the bullet in 2021. No regrets. You should look a game called Download for PC Engine. Also enjoyed Image Fight on PC Engine.
The PC Engine was the least popular console here in Brazil back then. I've never seen nor knew anybody who owned one.
Weber's TV and Appliance in LaGrange IN. The town was too small to ever get a Blockbuster!
Hey, Chris. I didn’t hear you mention so I wasn’t sure if you were aware, there were 3 major versions of Life Force/Salamander in arcades, and the final version was the Japanese version of “Life Force” which retained the Gradius power-up system.
There are a couple of big game channels that do regular "pick-ups" videos. I do tend to enjoy them, but sometimes I wonder how much the content creators really enjoy doing them. I even wonder if they feel it's necessary to keep buying stuff they're not even that interested in just to have content for their channel. I don't think I could ever run a game channel for a living. The things I do and collect for the love of the hobby would probably start to feel forced.
Is that the hoodie you were asking me about?? Looks good!
Yeah this is the one! I just didn’t want to bother you about it.
@@CGQPlus Dude!! Its no big deal... I just cant guarantee a killer deal on it... LOL
Hey Chris, thanks for making that PS1 in 1996 video, PLEASE make a follow up sometime. Also congrats on the 49ers winning column!
Super Star Soldier was my first soldier game and beating it made me feel like the best video game player in the world! btw fully powered vulcan, which i first seen in SSS, was to be forever known in my house as the Super Star Gun.
Here in Toronto we Had Blockbuster across the street from me and another BIG franchise here was Rogers video.
That was owned by our cable company.
As usual awesome content.
I'm exactly the same way with record shopping/pickup videos. I know what I'm looking for when I head to the record store and I buy with a purpose. I see tons of vinyl channels where they just buy armfulls of records, then do a pickup video ripping through all of them.
Yes, EXACTLY. Like nothing insightful to say about any of them. I feel like a lot of people who collect, whether it’s games, vinyl, whatever, they buy what they see everyone else buy. Like when people spread their record collection all over the floor and take a pic to post to /r/vinyl, it’s mostly the same stuff as everyone else. So they don’t have anything interesting to say about it because they didn’t have much of a reason for buying it in the first place.
I've been replaying 1943 for the NES and wow I didn't remember how repetitive it actually is, and if you mess with the leveling system you are toast.
Oh man, the seriousness of that cold opening made me expect a frank discussion about drugs and teenage pregnancy...
We must have the same type of Paypal account, with the hole-burning and such..!
It's hard!
The PS1 is great for Konami shooters. There are the Gradius and Salamander Deluxe packs, which are compilations of all the early Gradius/Salamander games. Theres also the PS1 exclusive Gradius Gaiden and a port of Parodius.
So is yours the one that Voltar did the video on of cleaning up the DuoR from 'the douche'?? In any case, good stuff man. I need my DuoRX laser looked at as it wont play games. It may need the pots turned but I dont want to kill it. I use a TED 1.1 myself and it has worked good for me for a while now. Funny thing is i keep it in an extra PCE case with the little plastic sleeve that you recently said to get your games out of.
That wasn’t my system, but it was the same procedure.
ALL WOMEN: “Who is that oversexed uncle sipping coffee out of a PC Engine mug over there?!?”
Me: “That’s Chris from CGQ. Just pretend you never saw him, he’s out of your league. You have no chance, he would just break your heart into a thousand pieces and then go right back to watching Ayrton Senna videos on UA-cam like he always does.”
Sippa coffee for Chris, ah, hem, i mean tea
You said your drinking green tea.
Have you tried Kratom tea?
It's really good.
I have not. I don’t normally drink green tea. Just sounded good when I was getting ready to record this video.
That opening was super duty tough....
Well done Sir.
Love the mug!
Woooo! Always need more CGQ in my life.
I needed a new CGQ+ video on this workday. The rough day just got better.
Smoke monster provides an interesting take
On what?
Edit: Nvm just watched the first part of the video again.
Yeah, 1943 Kai isn't worth that kind of money as far as the quality of the game itself is concerned. You definitely paid around the going rate for a complete in case copy though. Maybe you should just sell it so you don't always see the game as an eye sore.
Easy, soon enough, 1943Kai will cost 1000 bucks, than you can at least sell it and make a few more bucks, compensating for the current remorse.
I have always wondered what the logo on your baseball cap is for.
I want a yankee candle of the smell of my childhood video rental store (Video Tape Center). I loved all that old cardboard and bad carpets hitting you in the face as soon as you opened the door and heard the door chimes. We also had a rental code that was 3 digits.
I remember the week they opened up the Nintendo tape rentals.
I need that PCE mug
just a word of warning... I'm in the process of replacing the NEC logos with my own logo because "reasons" I can't say exactly when i'll complete the process but i have to get it done soonish.
Kai means revision, but modified is probably also correct.
I don't care about Blockbuster coming to town with a better selection and better business model. This is how it goes. Don't like it? Diversify your business, give people a reason to come by. They're were tons of local video rental places all over the Detroit and Grand Rapids suburbs in the 80's, 90's, and early 00's.
The only thing that Blockbuster had that was “better” was branding and advertising.
@@CGQPlus based on your desription in your video I generally agree with your assessment.
Woo Hoo!!!
Did you use Phil's rental code?
621?
You feel bad about buying some obscure PC Engine game, yet you seem to own like 25 different exact replica $50 New Era UC Davis Caps/Fleeces etc.
Hahahaha! That cold open, good one.
how does the laser get damaged from playing burned tgcd games!?
It has to go up to the disc to read it and the lens will actually scratch on the disc itself while it’s spinning at high speed
@@stgenerations oh crap
Thank you Chris for your honesty....which makes you a hypocrite about being hypocritical!
Er...do you play any Lego video games, by the way?
I really enjoyed the first Lego Star Wars games when they came out like, what, 20 years ago? Haven’t checked any of them out since then. Are there still good ones?
@@CGQPlus The last one that left quite an impression to me was Drome Racers on GBA, because I was into Lego Technic and Racers theme at that time.Even the music was good.
Whoop-dee-do “In Yo FACE!!!”
Look at that sip lol
You had me at the PCE mug.
i was as shocked as you
Can we just get an hour long, awkward video of you, extremely close to the camera, and just staring?
DoujinDance?
Yeah
@@CGQPlus it sucks because his rep is based on a few experiences from years ago. But he has gotten a lot better recently.
Dar-Ee-Us 4 life.
Beep bap boop
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Yes, I remember absolutely HATING Blockbuster. They had the worst selection, and the worst prices, and then they became the ONLY place around for the most part. How do you run everybody out of business when you're the most expensive??