@@collectorjohn9538 I think it's missing the bottom half of the disc. DVDs are sandwiched together by two halves. You're missing the bottom half of the disc. That's why it's so thin. Trust me I've pulled apart many DVDs in anger before.
Hey John! Watching games pick ups videos and unboxings are my favourite way to relax, and it's great to know that there are other collectors out there that enjoy collecting just for the love of the game. You've got my subscription. 👍
Fun vid! Rally Sport Challenge ohh the memories one of my fav games from back in that day that I finished to the end (I had bought the original Xbox at launch with Halo, NHL Hitz lol and a spare controller)
Yep, forget about it for a bit and the next time you'll take it out it's gonna be straight, leaving it like that will just crease it even more when you open and close the case.
I was under the understand that DVDs are 2 discs stuck toghther and so maybe that DVD of Cel Damage has some how been seperated. If you look at a disc carefully from the side you will see the 2 layers of plastic
Hey man! Your biggest fan in Bloomington, MN. Ha. New Legends is a 3rd person action game. I believe it’s an exclusive. You should try it! Glad to see another awesome video man.
You also gotta love the irony of how sometimes that the crappiest games are packaged awesome .. and then great ones aren't package well at all ... like all together loose in an envelope. It's like luck of the draw sometimes with some sellers.
game with Mag Luck ? His calculations, forget the shipping, worth index, LOL Why care about the condition, need collectors items or too cheap to collect disks ? Here, these disks are $ 0.50 in shops that clean them.
The clean shave threw me off at first. Cool “experience” with OG Xbox games. I love the analytics at the end especially. Hope you have a great transition from February into March.
I bet that cel damage game has been resurfaced down to the data layer. Explains the thinness. With Each resurface, at least to my knowledge, takes a layer of polycarbonate, and I believe most discs only have 3 layers before you get to the aluminium layer (The data layer) which I think has also been resurfaced off which would explain why it doesn't work
Nice pickups! Even with all the trash ones and the slew of sports games, you still ended up with a decent amount of games for a decent price! What I do when I get a lot of games, the ones that I don't keep, I send them to my friend who then chose the ones he wants and then he sells the rest to a gaming store to get some credit to get a game he wants. I get games that I want for a decent price, he gets games for free and can sometimes get some credit for the rest of it so I like paying it forward! Great video and keep up the good work!
Just sitting here scrolling UA-cam with my oversized fleece when this video randomly showed up. Subscribed as soon as the intro was over. Love finding small quality channels like this.
Really cool video. I used to buy ps2 games on Ebay and it was a mixed of good to horrible games, but at least was cheap. Id love to do buy more ps2 lots in the future
Thankfully the game store I trade at doesn’t care about scratched discs as long as they can be resurfaced. They have one of those giant automated resurfacers that can do giant batches of discs, and they buff every disc they sell anyway. Makes buying lots online easier to just pull the ones I want and trade the rest without worrying about condition.
Those sports stickers are actually very easy to remove with goo gone. Just peel the top layer off with your finger (it isn't hard) and then wipe the silver residue off with goo gone. It comes off very quickly
It’s funny. I sell video games as well and it’s almost impossible to take pictures of scratches, yet in this video scratches show up so easily. Which means they’re even worse in person than what you’re showing. SMH some people are horrible for selling this crap
Respect for your "i just want a working game" outlook on collecting. It shows that you are actually looking to PLAY your games. A lot of "collectors" just want them as shiny pieces of plastic that are worth x dollars.
you actually WANT the sticker on the sports game, because that is the original casing. the ones with the sticker are worth more, especially the rare ones.
I still think it was ultimately a good deal and definitely a fun video. The first game you opened from that roached batch was funny i literally gasped 😅
@@collectorjohn9538I'm sure you know this but they will give you more store credit than cash. I almost always get store credit so I can get other games I really want.
For myself, regarding collecting games i only collect and buy disc only. This has allowed me to build a massive collecting of games that take up very little space and for much, much less then CIB (complete in box) I use eBay for this. For example, on the seach bar type, xbox 360 disc only. Prices are a lot cheaper. The only systems i collected CIB are GameCube, Saturn and Dreamcast. Price of disc only doesn't usually seem to cost that much less then CIB and disc only seach on these three systems are very limited, same very games time after time. And i have special memory's regarding Saturn and Dreamcast so getting these CIB means a lot more to me then OG Xbox, 360, PS1-PS4. I'm fully digital with Xbox One, Xbox Series and PS5. I only buy games for these three systems that are not on the digital stores, like for example the Deadpool game. The trickiest part was finding high quality cd binders, so many of them are utter crap. I found one brand that is built of high standards and actually hold the number of discs they state, 500 discs. Many say a number but don't hold the amount they advertise. I have 2x books for OG Xbox, 2x books for Xbox 360, 1x book PS1, 1x book PS2, 1x book that shares PS3 & PS4.
That’s a pretty cool philosophy. I’ve been doing that for ps1 games, and ps2 unknowingly I guess. I’m with you on Dreamcast CIB, you gotta spend the extra $10-15 for the whole package. Dreamcast had so much soul with there presentation.
24" Sony Wega CRT with component. Just a generic cable for now, would love to get a OEM component cable but they're really pricey. I have a regular Xbox with a 1.6 motherboard and a Halo edition Xbox as well.
You should get some goo gone or something like that, which is great to easily get off those leftover sticker residue etc on the cases and clean them up
That Cel Damage disc was WILD lol I always enjoy a good case swap. Very satisfying to upgrade the old cases. Just a shame most sports games have those holographic ultra sticky stickers on them. I’ve actually ripped the plastic right off of the case trying to remove one of those before.
@@collectorjohn9538heat gun is pretty too, or goo gone from the spray bottle let it sit for 10 mins or so it will eat the stickers residue then you can wipe off the residue it leaves
A lot of good games on the original xbox. I recently started collecting for it because I only had about a dozen games from when I was playing it. Now I'm up to 35 and looking for more.
That thin ass game most have had a pretty deep scratch for them to have resurface it like that, maybe try to put some tape on the CD face to try to make it work.
protip for cases with sports league stickers on them: you can hold a can of air duster upside down and spray the stickers which freezes the adhesive and allows for easy removal. you can even use this method to remove some stickers from cardboard boxes and slipcovers. been using this trick for years now.
I used to have the steel box case for halo 2, back in 2006, my bedroom was robbed and some of the things that were taken were my ps2 and Xbox as well as all of the games I had for them.
Love this type of video and how long it is! Another great video! Can’t believe you got both the suffering games in this. Amazing underrated games! Plus dark alliance, also amazing. Btw you can definitely remove the sports sticks. Just peel off the sticker like any other sticker then use goo gone on the residue. Done it many times!
Hot Pursuit 2 is a great game, but the version differences are more than usual with that one. The PS2 version was actually made by an entirely different developer than the Xbox/GCN/PC versions.
So im big into collecting for the xbox 360 currently. I have ran across plenty of resellers that are selling games in the $1-$3 range on Mercari and so far all have been pretty decent shape. A lot of them have only been pictures of the front cover because of the bulk amount they list. Maybe ive just been lucky?
Hey, just use some isopropyl alcohol to remove the stickers - you don't have to swap whole cases. Pour some alcohol, gently rub it on the sticker and wait a few moments. And remember to remove cover first, alohol may damage it! The sticker and dry glue will come off :) I do this every time i buy 360 games.
funny enough, that turok that you said wasn’t in an OEM case, actually was. but it was an OEM 360 case, not original xbox (remember the PGA sticker?). 360 game cases were a lot thinner and flimsier and felt cheaper than OG xbox cases.
Topspin... I was really hurt to see it on the trash pile.. I played this game for hundreds of hours on both xlink Kai and Xbox live... Was pretty high up in the ranks too... Good memories
Those holographic stickers are super easy to remove, I do it all the time when replacing wwe cases. Just get out the trusty hairdryer, heat it up, then peal it off gently so that it doesn’t rip. Easy peasy
One thing I don't like about mercari is the smaller return window. Maybe do a chargeback on your credit card. You are in the right since the seller lied.
Not a bad idea but it was so long ago (like 8 months) that I don't think it would matter at this point. It's more of a problem with buying stuff for videos and then letting it sit forever until I can get to it haha
Love oldschool video game channels that actually take time to look at the box and discs. Subscribed!!
UA-cam is mostly Unboxing ;)
my only guess with the Cell game is that someone ran that one through a resurfacer one too many times... that is weird as hell though lol.
Yup super weird, have never seen anything like it
That’s my guess as well.
@@collectorjohn9538did it run? Haven't finished the fall vid yet
Finished it didn't work. Dag yo
@@collectorjohn9538 I think it's missing the bottom half of the disc. DVDs are sandwiched together by two halves. You're missing the bottom half of the disc. That's why it's so thin. Trust me I've pulled apart many DVDs in anger before.
Just got home from work. Time to relax and enjoy some collector John 😁
Almost done with work over here. Hope you enjoy the video and have a great weekend!
@@collectorjohn9538you as well! Thanks for always sharing your collection throughout life. I always look forward to your videos.
That Cel Damage disc has definitely been resurfaced a bunch.
it might be a fake display copy for a store as well so that people could see the art but the disc is actually fake so if they steal it .. who cares?
Love the vibes in this channel! Just subscribed!
Hey John!
Watching games pick ups videos and unboxings are my favourite way to relax, and it's great to know that there are other collectors out there that enjoy collecting just for the love of the game. You've got my subscription. 👍
Thanks for watching dude! Appreciate you
Fun vid! Rally Sport Challenge ohh the memories one of my fav games from back in that day that I finished to the end (I had bought the original Xbox at launch with Halo, NHL Hitz lol and a spare controller)
San Andreas manual, i usually flip them the other way inside the case to straighten out over time
Yep, forget about it for a bit and the next time you'll take it out it's gonna be straight, leaving it like that will just crease it even more when you open and close the case.
I was under the understand that DVDs are 2 discs stuck toghther and so maybe that DVD of Cel Damage has some how been seperated. If you look at a disc carefully from the side you will see the 2 layers of plastic
Hey man! Your biggest fan in Bloomington, MN. Ha. New Legends is a 3rd person action game. I believe it’s an exclusive. You should try it! Glad to see another awesome video man.
You also gotta love the irony of how sometimes that the crappiest games are packaged awesome .. and then great ones aren't package well at all ... like all together loose in an envelope. It's like luck of the draw sometimes with some sellers.
game with Mag
Luck ? His calculations, forget the shipping, worth index, LOL
Why care about the condition, need collectors items or too cheap to collect disks ?
Here, these disks are $ 0.50 in shops that clean them.
The clean shave threw me off at first. Cool “experience” with OG Xbox games. I love the analytics at the end especially. Hope you have a great transition from February into March.
Just came across your channel by accident....loved this video....subscribed!
I bet that cel damage game has been resurfaced down to the data layer. Explains the thinness. With Each resurface, at least to my knowledge, takes a layer of polycarbonate, and I believe most discs only have 3 layers before you get to the aluminium layer (The data layer) which I think has also been resurfaced off which would explain why it doesn't work
Really enjoyed this video. Hope you buy more bundles!
Nice pickups! Even with all the trash ones and the slew of sports games, you still ended up with a decent amount of games for a decent price! What I do when I get a lot of games, the ones that I don't keep, I send them to my friend who then chose the ones he wants and then he sells the rest to a gaming store to get some credit to get a game he wants. I get games that I want for a decent price, he gets games for free and can sometimes get some credit for the rest of it so I like paying it forward! Great video and keep up the good work!
Must have had a coffee b4 the recording ehh😂😂..... love the energy in the intro tho👌🏾👌🏾
I had an amazing cold brew and my hands were shaking the entire time 😅
I just binged all your vids over the past few days lol. You must be doing something right!
Just sitting here scrolling UA-cam with my oversized fleece when this video randomly showed up. Subscribed as soon as the intro was over. Love finding small quality channels like this.
Appreciate it dude. Hope the fleece is as comfy as mine
Oversized Fleece squad 🤛 haha
Wow! A lot of the cases in that big box were pristine. Hoping you did a lot of swaps from that box.
Greetings from Australia john, I liked and subscribed
Great video please do more like this. Subbed
Really cool video.
I used to buy ps2 games on Ebay and it was a mixed of good to horrible games, but at least was cheap.
Id love to do buy more ps2 lots in the future
Hey John, planning to go to the Midwest Gaming Classic in April?
I really don't understand how people get their discs in such condition....
Thankfully the game store I trade at doesn’t care about scratched discs as long as they can be resurfaced. They have one of those giant automated resurfacers that can do giant batches of discs, and they buff every disc they sell anyway. Makes buying lots online easier to just pull the ones I want and trade the rest without worrying about condition.
Ive never heard of some of these. Do yu plan on uploading any footage of gameplay?
Those sports stickers are actually very easy to remove with goo gone. Just peel the top layer off with your finger (it isn't hard) and then wipe the silver residue off with goo gone. It comes off very quickly
It’s funny. I sell video games as well and it’s almost impossible to take pictures of scratches, yet in this video scratches show up so easily. Which means they’re even worse in person than what you’re showing. SMH some people are horrible for selling this crap
Respect for your "i just want a working game" outlook on collecting. It shows that you are actually looking to PLAY your games. A lot of "collectors" just want them as shiny pieces of plastic that are worth x dollars.
starting off the day with a bacon egg and cheese and a collector jawn video its gonna be a good day
Enjoy your sandwich 🥓
you actually WANT the sticker on the sports game, because that is the original casing.
the ones with the sticker are worth more, especially the rare ones.
hey man from uk here just subscribed loved this vid
Did not know marrowind was on the Xbox, thanks man. I’m definitely going to pick it up
Would love to see an up to date collection update/room tour
Will def be working on that, just need to finish up a few things in my space
I still think it was ultimately a good deal and definitely a fun video. The first game you opened from that roached batch was funny i literally gasped 😅
Me too, I'm happy with the games and what I paid. Glad my suffering paid off for your entertainment 😄
@@collectorjohn9538 😂😂😂 wouldn't have it any other way
@@collectorjohn9538I'm sure you know this but they will give you more store credit than cash. I almost always get store credit so I can get other games I really want.
For myself, regarding collecting games i only collect and buy disc only. This has allowed me to build a massive collecting of games that take up very little space and for much, much less then CIB (complete in box) I use eBay for this. For example, on the seach bar type, xbox 360 disc only. Prices are a lot cheaper. The only systems i collected CIB are GameCube, Saturn and Dreamcast. Price of disc only doesn't usually seem to cost that much less then CIB and disc only seach on these three systems are very limited, same very games time after time. And i have special memory's regarding Saturn and Dreamcast so getting these CIB means a lot more to me then OG Xbox, 360, PS1-PS4. I'm fully digital with Xbox One, Xbox Series and PS5. I only buy games for these three systems that are not on the digital stores, like for example the Deadpool game. The trickiest part was finding high quality cd binders, so many of them are utter crap. I found one brand that is built of high standards and actually hold the number of discs they state, 500 discs. Many say a number but don't hold the amount they advertise. I have 2x books for OG Xbox, 2x books for Xbox 360, 1x book PS1, 1x book PS2, 1x book that shares PS3 & PS4.
That’s a pretty cool philosophy. I’ve been doing that for ps1 games, and ps2 unknowingly I guess.
I’m with you on Dreamcast CIB, you gotta spend the extra $10-15 for the whole package. Dreamcast had so much soul with there presentation.
I’ve pulled a bunch of those sports stickers off cases to use them with non sports games and they peeled off no problem.
Curious about your OG Xbox set up. What kind of TV are you hooked up to, cables, upscaler, etc.
24" Sony Wega CRT with component. Just a generic cable for now, would love to get a OEM component cable but they're really pricey. I have a regular Xbox with a 1.6 motherboard and a Halo edition Xbox as well.
Do you shop on whatnot at all? Just curious if you’ve had any luck on there!
Never had much luck on there unfortunately
"Babe wake up new Collector John original Xbox video just dropped."
Im surprised they even gave you $18 lol
I like your view on collecting compared to most.
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ya hooked me with the fleece bit
Yeah ... that second box of games sucks. Better send that sht back!
You should get some goo gone or something like that, which is great to easily get off those leftover sticker residue etc on the cases and clean them up
im a big xbox fan you got a new sub bro
The cel damage disc seems like the plastic reinforcement got removed from the actual game somehow. Happened to me once with a 360 game.
I can see that, definitely felt like there was a plastic shell missing
That Cel Damage disc was WILD lol
I always enjoy a good case swap. Very satisfying to upgrade the old cases. Just a shame most sports games have those holographic ultra sticky stickers on them. I’ve actually ripped the plastic right off of the case trying to remove one of those before.
Someone else in the comments mentioned you can remove those stickers with a hair dryer? Seems worth a shot
@@collectorjohn9538heat gun is pretty too, or goo gone from the spray bottle let it sit for 10 mins or so it will eat the stickers residue then you can wipe off the residue it leaves
That Platinum Morrowind is the vanilla version, not GOTY, it's just advertising that it won the award but doesn't have the DLC on disc.
Yeah someone else pointed that out too. The black GOTY art on the platinum hits version throws me off.
@@collectorjohn9538 If you have a Xbox One or Series X, no matter which disc you use, you'll get the GOTY version downloaded to your console
Must say the vanilla version looks unique, I never saw one before (atleast in europe).@@collectorjohn9538
Kinda sad as spent last couple days binge watching your videos but now I'm all caught up.. love these type of videos
Nothing sad about it my friend. Glad you're enjoying the vids
@@collectorjohn9538 it's sad because I got no more to watch haha and of course
The amount of times I’ve bought a game only to find someone wrote a whole essay on the disc.
A lot of good games on the original xbox. I recently started collecting for it because I only had about a dozen games from when I was playing it. Now I'm up to 35 and looking for more.
always love when you upload a new video hope you are doing well
I think the Fleece is okay. Its the hair and Beanie that get me.
Some of those wrecked discs may be salvageable. I've seen resurfacers work wonders
That thin ass game most have had a pretty deep scratch for them to have resurface it like that, maybe try to put some tape on the CD face to try to make it work.
Missing out on a fun game with MLB Slugfest man. It's like NBA Jam/NFL Blitz but with baseball.
the trouble with xbox games for the original and 360 is nobody looked after their games
My guess is someone put the Cel Damage disc in a resurfacer for way too long making it way thinner then it should be. Great pickups though!
Your pronunciation of Derek Jeter was correct, and your quip was hilarious 😂
Lol glad I nailed it
You definitely got Merked off Mercari my man! Those discs were worse than anything I have ever even seen for sale at a swap meet before LoL!
protip for cases with sports league stickers on them: you can hold a can of air duster upside down and spray the stickers which freezes the adhesive and allows for easy removal. you can even use this method to remove some stickers from cardboard boxes and slipcovers. been using this trick for years now.
Awesome I will give that a shot. Others have suggested the hair dryer method
I used to have the steel box case for halo 2, back in 2006, my bedroom was robbed and some of the things that were taken were my ps2 and Xbox as well as all of the games I had for them.
Love this type of video and how long it is! Another great video! Can’t believe you got both the suffering games in this. Amazing underrated games! Plus dark alliance, also amazing.
Btw you can definitely remove the sports sticks. Just peel off the sticker like any other sticker then use goo gone on the residue. Done it many times!
Collector John be wildin' 💯🤘🏻
Rubbing alcohol does wonders for those cases with stickers and will clean up the grime also
Yup isopropyl and goo gone are my best friends
Hot Pursuit 2 is a great game, but the version differences are more than usual with that one. The PS2 version was actually made by an entirely different developer than the Xbox/GCN/PC versions.
You got some good games and you did well my dude
Thanks for watching my dude
Sick pick up dude!
That Jerry Potter must be a banger 😂
Best gets I saw were Ultimate Spidey, BMX XXX , Stubbs and Manhunt... nice
So im big into collecting for the xbox 360 currently. I have ran across plenty of resellers that are selling games in the $1-$3 range on Mercari and so far all have been pretty decent shape. A lot of them have only been pictures of the front cover because of the bulk amount they list. Maybe ive just been lucky?
A little luck, and in my experience Xbox 360 games are usually in better condition than OG Xbox games for whatever reason
The yellow sticker on Superman was freaking huge!
Yup that's a big ol sticker
Hey, just use some isopropyl alcohol to remove the stickers - you don't have to swap whole cases. Pour some alcohol, gently rub it on the sticker and wait a few moments. And remember to remove cover first, alohol may damage it! The sticker and dry glue will come off :) I do this every time i buy 360 games.
I do this all the time too. But if I have clean cases available off games I'm not keeping, I'm just gonna take the cases lol
@@collectorjohn9538 sure thing, that's fair point. Greetings from Poland!
funny enough, that turok that you said wasn’t in an OEM case, actually was. but it was an OEM 360 case, not original xbox (remember the PGA sticker?). 360 game cases were a lot thinner and flimsier and felt cheaper than OG xbox cases.
You should put gameplay of the games you get. Might get people interested in buying some older games to try out
Shoutout to the Big Fleece Crew 😤
Topspin... I was really hurt to see it on the trash pile.. I played this game for hundreds of hours on both xlink Kai and Xbox live... Was pretty high up in the ranks too... Good memories
I already have that one so it's all good :) I'll let someone else enjoy it
Greg Hastings paintball is a great FPS. Worth keeping IMO
is investing in a resurface machine worth it?
don’t buy unless they show actual pictures of the discs condition
Last year I got a sealed SSX 3 Xbox copy on Amazon for like 20 CAD, best deal I've ever found.
How did that guy destroy so many games ... Did he (er.. i mean his friend) give them to his dog or something?!?.
Sick vid! If only your NCAA2k3 copy was for GameCube. That version is super rare for some reason.
Love that you kept nfl2k5 out of respect still the best football game ever made
Those holographic stickers are super easy to remove, I do it all the time when replacing wwe cases. Just get out the trusty hairdryer, heat it up, then peal it off gently so that it doesn’t rip. Easy peasy
Thanks I'll give it a shot, idk why I didn't think of the hair dryer method
you could get lucky with those disks but that first one ouch.
that cel damage disc must've been resurfaced hundreds of times, I have never seen that happen before and I have a disc resurfacer 😐
You should keep that midway slugfest game
One thing I don't like about mercari is the smaller return window. Maybe do a chargeback on your credit card. You are in the right since the seller lied.
Not a bad idea but it was so long ago (like 8 months) that I don't think it would matter at this point. It's more of a problem with buying stuff for videos and then letting it sit forever until I can get to it haha
i love the fact that you're going into this blind, so its a mystery what you get for everyone
for the bmx xxx you can pull the art out and reverse it for a nice photo
For the ones too much in bad shape you can always cannibalize the clamshells, considering those are in ok shape...
I spy Coven on VHS! RIP Mike Schank.
They call me humble John
i wanted mine games perfect the manuel is a plus and a disc resurfacer is a good investment;p
and just remove stickers instead off swapping.
You should purchase a resurfacing machine for yourself.
Original Xbox just hits different
I'm the same way I just want the disc an case manual is a plus but not make or break
Cel Damage was probably Stripped or like you said, was resurfaced so many times that it became like that.
It was so jarring to pull it out of the case and feel how thin and floppy it was lol