Lived in the area for several years before eventually moving, but local businesses such as yours truly brought so much life to the area for locals. The staff were always nice and helpful whenever I would stop by. Glad to see you guys are putting out some content online and getting some eyes on it!
I know profit margins gotta be tight, but it's awesome you guys are able to grow a business you're passionate about. I was also blown away by the arcade tour!
@@RadJunk It's probably sold by now just asking out of curiousty how much where you guys asking for the Collector's Edition of Resident Evil Village that's right behind you
I'm originally from Crestview but I live in the Tampa Bay area now so I only get to make it home once or twice a year for the holidays. We visited the store when y'all first opened and another time a few years after that, always a great experience. You channel started popping up for me and I was so glad to see y'all thriving! I'm hoping to make it over again this fall to see what I can score for my vintage collection. Congrats on all your success!
Now idc if the consoles are crusty or not but i think it would be cool to see replacing screens on handhelds or testing/fixing old machines…i want to see how they work and whats needed in order to fix them. Hopefully that makes sense.
Crazy that I had been to rad bar a bunch of times since it opened but never to the actual shop until recently. Wife loved the OG gameboy color games I got her from there! Love what you guys provide for the community.
"Sometimes you gotta scrub a crusty Starfox" made me remember to hit the sub! Love you take on this stuff and your proper way to care for these old gems. I'm in!
those old catridge games never die.. i lost Wave race64 as a kid, and 7 months later my dad found it in the leaves he was raking.. washed it in the sink.. dried it.. and it still works
I remember my parents renting me smash bros for the weekend but it refused to work. I was so mad until my dad did the same trick at 4:55 and got it to work. Definitely a blast from the past to see it!
This was my dream for many years to open up a games store with retro games, collectibles and some sort of gaming café... I'm very impressed and hapoy for you guys! I never had the courage to open my own business so instead I became a social worker 😂
Id suggest throwing a quick spray of computer cleaner into the cartridge before doing isopropyl with a Q tip. After opening doing a squirt of purple Super Clean and a power drill with a small car detailing brush to agitate everything, might save a lot of time. Love the channel!
If you open to board I would use bright boy on the pins also a MR clean sheet works wonders with a dab of simple green or 90% alcohol for a easier clean process
This popped up onto my recommended so started watching it and thought "that store looks very familiar..." I came in several years ago when you guys were brand new! Glad to see you're still going down there! Still got the NES you guys sold me. Will probably stop in when I come back to visit some friends in a few weeks...
I never thought I'll see the original Ramona flowers in the flesh! Thank you very much for the video. I'll love to pass by the store to buy some gems you have there, but I don't like on the states. Keep up the good work. Have a nice day
I remember learning a long time ago to always look for holes in a used disc before i purchase it. Especially when it comes used games and even blu ray discs.
I have a decent collection of retro games/consoles/collectables and I cannot agree enough about crusty and smelly stuff. I have a plastic tote that I fill with dryer sheets and put my smelly stuff in and I have iso and plastic wedges for the crust lmao. Keep up the great content. I love it!
I always have a decon process when buying any used games, blu-rays etc. For the plastic cases I use 'Mr Sheen' multi-surface polish + a couple of yellow dusters, one for cleaning then 2nd one for the buffing/polish stage. It's surprising how a crusty, battered case can often clean up really nicely. Obviously with card slipcovers, paper sleeves etc. you have to be more careful, any liquid to a minimum and making sure to leave no trace of it. For cigarette smoke smell, you can sometimes cover it by wiping a little scented fabric softener on/in the case and a tiny amount on the paper covers. But occasionally they are just too far gone. I remember a white DVD sleeve partially exposed from plastic, stained dark yellow. Had to throw out the case & cover, as the smell was so strong.
Out of the thousands of cartridges i have bought and 18 years of reselling i have only came across 2 that I could not get to work. I have had to leave some in the system with the power turned on for several hours and then they started working. I have not “Relowed” any yet but I hear that is another way to get them back to life
Will never understand taking filthy items in for trade. It's even more degen than taking in stuff without a case. 1. It's like do they not want the maximum from a trade? & 2. Do they really have no shame in letting other people know how disgusting their living space has to be?
Super Mario 64, Majoras Mask and Ocarina of Time are very rare and pricey [especially loose]. Star Wars Episode 1 Racer is actually on Xbox Game Pass, and it plays pretty good on it 😀 Seeing you take apart Star Fox 64 and cleaning up and restoring it to its former glory was amazing 👏🏽
I hate that collectors make these prices go up so high. There are games I'd like to play that I never got to when I was younger but they're still so expensive, sometimes even more than they were new. Even broken ones! With anything else you'd see things get cheaper when they're outdated.
I get a bunch of old stuff on a regular basis (I run a site about games, so readers sometimes send things to me), and some of it is much, MUCH worse than this. I remember a Mega Drive III (Genesis II in US) that looked like it had been abandoned under the sun and rain, and when I opened it up, it had a lot of DIRT, like a reddish soil inside. It could have a plant if it wasn't dry and dark. I guess the guy was living where dust storms were common, maybe Mars. No ideia how that crap ended up inside the console. And some cartridges look beyond cleaning until I brush the contacts with fine sandpaper. Most of them come back from the dead.
'maybe nicotine, who knows, I don't, I don't wanna know, quite frankly' words of wisdom. The Mario Sunshine disk rot is honestly impressive for all the wrong reasons. I don't really grok quite what happened to it.
This is reminding me of a Conkers that i got that had been puked on. Was able to clean it up just fine except for the RF shield. That was corroded so I just swapped in a nice clean one and then you couldn't tell it had any issue.
@@cyan0xide It's okay to shop on ebay, but this is an easy question. You don't have to wait for shipped item. You know exactly what you're getting. Doesn't get lost in mail. No scam. Trade-ins. It's literally fun to go shopping and find hidden gems. Support community and maybe even make friends at a trade night. Is this even a real question? Next!
Maybe a vid of the most common questions you get asked, games/systems people want. Maybe what people have requested for the shop that are good and bad ideas in terms of layout and accessability.
This has been such a fun channel to watch. I live in Arizona, and wish we had some used game stores that take the same amount of care you all do! Great casual videos! Side note, what camera are you using to film?
Thanks for watching!!! We use a few different cameras from a Nikon z8 for the podcast, to our phones for shorts. This particular video was shot on a DJI Osmo Pocket 3!
I would love to visit your shop if you ever do game system repair. My grandmas snes needs repair work. I used to play a lot of Tetris on it just like my grandma
Just wait until you rookies have to open them up!! I once found 100$ Bill, inside an NES game. Most of the time, you find dead bugs. No worries, it's the Alive ones you need to watch out for :) Grab the Raid! But most of the time, what annoys me, are the old video store stickers!! GOO GONE IS YOUR BESTIE!! ;) Take Care and Cheers from Montreal Quebec Canada xxx&ooo's :)
Would like to see more stuff like this and some of the cartridge cleaning shorts i saw you guys put up before. there's some scary ones i saw like the one with dead bugs.. Also awesome seeing Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn on the shelf in the background when you were showing the handhelds... what's your price for it 👀
Simple Green for the win. I had to *bathe* arcade parts in that stuff to resurrect them. Curious what the Q-Tip/iso-alcohol/simple green budget is for trade ins, lol.
You're pretty cool, just in case you weren't sure. I'm sure you were, but it's just one of those things to say. I think it adds to your marketing appeal. I want to learn more buying and selling margins
Your hair makes me think of avatar🤔👍🏻 we need more places like this…I would buy from a store like this over chain places👍🏻 I just did a new factory battery replacement in my first gen Nintendo switch along with the joy cons too and was fun and pretty easy👍🏻
Lived in the area for several years before eventually moving, but local businesses such as yours truly brought so much life to the area for locals. The staff were always nice and helpful whenever I would stop by. Glad to see you guys are putting out some content online and getting some eyes on it!
Thank you!!
I know profit margins gotta be tight, but it's awesome you guys are able to grow a business you're passionate about. I was also blown away by the arcade tour!
Thank you so much!! 💙
@@RadJunk It's probably sold by now just asking out of curiousty how much where you guys asking for the Collector's Edition of Resident Evil Village that's right behind you
this has been my new favorite channel
Heck yea, thank you!!
Simp
I'm originally from Crestview but I live in the Tampa Bay area now so I only get to make it home once or twice a year for the holidays. We visited the store when y'all first opened and another time a few years after that, always a great experience. You channel started popping up for me and I was so glad to see y'all thriving! I'm hoping to make it over again this fall to see what I can score for my vintage collection. Congrats on all your success!
Hey thank you so much!!! So cool seeing locals (and previous locals) find us on here!
Now idc if the consoles are crusty or not but i think it would be cool to see replacing screens on handhelds or testing/fixing old machines…i want to see how they work and whats needed in order to fix them. Hopefully that makes sense.
We have a ton of that on the way, we hope you enjoy it!
Love your content. Grew up in south Florida, seeing your shop helps keep my childhood nostalgia alive!
this and tates
when blue video game woman makes a video, i watch
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It's simple really. A man sees blue video game woman's upload, a man's happy.
@@Anpeo if hair dye was illegal mens productivity would raise 300%
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Crazy that I had been to rad bar a bunch of times since it opened but never to the actual shop until recently. Wife loved the OG gameboy color games I got her from there! Love what you guys provide for the community.
"Sometimes you gotta scrub a crusty Starfox" made me remember to hit the sub! Love you take on this stuff and your proper way to care for these old gems. I'm in!
wow thats awesome u can do so much about fixing and renewing stuff! im an old gamer myself and seeing other enthusiasts makes me happy!
those old catridge games never die.. i lost Wave race64 as a kid, and 7 months later my dad found it in the leaves he was raking.. washed it in the sink.. dried it.. and it still works
I love video game repair, breakdown and clean videos. Those are seriously some of my favorite videos to watch..
I remember my parents renting me smash bros for the weekend but it refused to work.
I was so mad until my dad did the same trick at 4:55 and got it to work. Definitely a blast from the past to see it!
You just showed up in my recommendations lol I always hit you up when I visit my home town. Love that you are on UA-cam as well.
My most anticipated video of the week. Can’t wait for more!
This was my dream for many years to open up a games store with retro games, collectibles and some sort of gaming café... I'm very impressed and hapoy for you guys! I never had the courage to open my own business so instead I became a social worker 😂
Id suggest throwing a quick spray of computer cleaner into the cartridge before doing isopropyl with a Q tip. After opening doing a squirt of purple Super Clean and a power drill with a small car detailing brush to agitate everything, might save a lot of time. Love the channel!
I’ll give that a shot! Thanks for the tip!
Blue video game girl: subscribe or die! 🫡
Shop 🐭: Die! 😈
The crust just gives those old games character 😂
Happy Monday! Thanks for the great weekly videos, keep em coming! ☀️🎮
It looked like someone spilled soda on those carts. Lol good job getting em back to playable.
If you open to board I would use bright boy on the pins also a MR clean sheet works wonders with a dab of simple green or 90% alcohol for a easier clean process
This popped up onto my recommended so started watching it and thought "that store looks very familiar..." I came in several years ago when you guys were brand new! Glad to see you're still going down there! Still got the NES you guys sold me. Will probably stop in when I come back to visit some friends in a few weeks...
Heck yea! 💙
Really like you guys are dropping a lot more videos now! Love the shop and like seeing what kinda trades you guys get in!
Thank you!!
I had breakfast watching this vid, great company, cheers
Glad you enjoyed it!!
Oh wow what a great shop you have !
Thank you!
Thank you, UA-cam algorithm, for recommending this amazing channel ❤
Yep!! No idea how I got here either! 😂
my complete respect about you been able to maintain the store of your dreams!! in most parts of the world thats impossible
“It’s working! IT’S WORKING!”
-Star Wars Episode I: Racer
I never thought I'll see the original Ramona flowers in the flesh! Thank you very much for the video. I'll love to pass by the store to buy some gems you have there, but I don't like on the states. Keep up the good work. Have a nice day
It may be Rad Junk, but it’s CLEAN Rad Junk 🧼
I remember learning a long time ago to always look for holes in a used disc before i purchase it. Especially when it comes used games and even blu ray discs.
seems pretty obvious
I have a decent collection of retro games/consoles/collectables and I cannot agree enough about crusty and smelly stuff. I have a plastic tote that I fill with dryer sheets and put my smelly stuff in and I have iso and plastic wedges for the crust lmao. Keep up the great content. I love it!
Dryer sheets work wonders!
I always have a decon process when buying any used games, blu-rays etc. For the plastic cases I use 'Mr Sheen' multi-surface polish + a couple of yellow dusters, one for cleaning then 2nd one for the buffing/polish stage. It's surprising how a crusty, battered case can often clean up really nicely.
Obviously with card slipcovers, paper sleeves etc. you have to be more careful, any liquid to a minimum and making sure to leave no trace of it.
For cigarette smoke smell, you can sometimes cover it by wiping a little scented fabric softener on/in the case and a tiny amount on the paper covers. But occasionally they are just too far gone. I remember a white DVD sleeve partially exposed from plastic, stained dark yellow. Had to throw out the case & cover, as the smell was so strong.
The green thumbnail writing is So 90s, love it😎
3:25 maybe they left it in on a window sill and the sunshine got to it. 😂
btw i love this channel!
So glad that you were able to save the Star Fox 64! 🦊
What a beautiful shop!
Man this store is so cool. Really loving the uploads!
Your hair looks amazing
Thank you!
Damn. When I trade stuff, I make sure it's as clean as possible
I’m in the UK and we have a store here, CEX, where the clerks always compliment the condition of my trades. They tell me most people bring in garbage.
@@YTALPOOL same. Some of the things I've seen people (try) to trade at CEX is pretty bad / embarrassing. Have some pride!
I have never owned an N64. I think it's about time for me to try one. The early days of 3d.
When you do get an N64 a must have is GoldenEye 007.
@atrax7023 So I played a 007. The menu music is amazing. Control a bit stiff, tho 😄
@@dragonborne8687 I'm sure you will get use to it but playing multiplayer is a blast.
2:53 now this is pod racing
Wooohooooo!
Glad you were able to save those games.
i love watching u scrub crusty stuff more please!
Poor Sam, having to clean all that crust. I would definitely wear gloves.
Great store! And great videos! I wish i was in the area to stop by.🎮💙🤘
💙💙💙
Out of the thousands of cartridges i have bought and 18 years of reselling i have only came across 2 that I could not get to work. I have had to leave some in the system with the power turned on for several hours and then they started working. I have not “Relowed” any yet but I hear that is another way to get them back to life
Will never understand taking filthy items in for trade. It's even more degen than taking in stuff without a case. 1. It's like do they not want the maximum from a trade? & 2. Do they really have no shame in letting other people know how disgusting their living space has to be?
LOL
Welcome to Hicksville or the hood. Take your pick. When you're smoking meth and crack hygiene isn't paramount.
Whatever camera you are using is amazing compared to so many other UA-cam videos I have seen, I mean the color on your footage is extremely vibrant.
Super Mario 64, Majoras Mask and Ocarina of Time are very rare and pricey [especially loose].
Star Wars Episode 1 Racer is actually on Xbox Game Pass, and it plays pretty good on it 😀
Seeing you take apart Star Fox 64 and cleaning up and restoring it to its former glory was amazing 👏🏽
I am planning a road trip soon and this place is on my list! Thanks yall for the videos!
I never liked how the launch 3DS XL's all had a coating of color with black plastic underneath, makes every scratch so much worse cause of it.
That is a NICE store you got there.
I've cleaned a lot of n64 games in my day. But damn those were DIRTY
Love these restoration videos
I hate that collectors make these prices go up so high. There are games I'd like to play that I never got to when I was younger but they're still so expensive, sometimes even more than they were new. Even broken ones! With anything else you'd see things get cheaper when they're outdated.
I get a bunch of old stuff on a regular basis (I run a site about games, so readers sometimes send things to me), and some of it is much, MUCH worse than this. I remember a Mega Drive III (Genesis II in US) that looked like it had been abandoned under the sun and rain, and when I opened it up, it had a lot of DIRT, like a reddish soil inside. It could have a plant if it wasn't dry and dark. I guess the guy was living where dust storms were common, maybe Mars. No ideia how that crap ended up inside the console.
And some cartridges look beyond cleaning until I brush the contacts with fine sandpaper. Most of them come back from the dead.
It’s crazy!
'maybe nicotine, who knows, I don't, I don't wanna know, quite frankly' words of wisdom.
The Mario Sunshine disk rot is honestly impressive for all the wrong reasons. I don't really grok quite what happened to it.
Breaks my heart how some people treat their consoles and games. Also, at least a dead roach didnt fall out of that Star Fox😅
This channel is becoming one of my favourites but please wear gloves when cleaning up that sort of mess
🧤🧤
This is reminding me of a Conkers that i got that had been puked on. Was able to clean it up just fine except for the RF shield. That was corroded so I just swapped in a nice clean one and then you couldn't tell it had any issue.
I enjoy watching these types of videos.
Wish I was closer to the shop, would love one of those lime green Game Boy Colors
I used to shop there once in awhile when I lived there. It was a cool shop and I am enjoying the videos!
yeah every shop is cool but how do you compete with ebay and anbernic
Thank you!!
By having fair prices and being rad. 😎
@@cyan0xide It's okay to shop on ebay, but this is an easy question. You don't have to wait for shipped item. You know exactly what you're getting. Doesn't get lost in mail. No scam. Trade-ins. It's literally fun to go shopping and find hidden gems. Support community and maybe even make friends at a trade night. Is this even a real question? Next!
Yep i use glass cleaner on old snes game's. Keeps em clean and they all work perfectly! 👌
Can’t wait for really rad weekend again!
You dudes should totally do a series where you scrub just crusty stuff!! Oh, and don’t dudes ship stuff too?!
Just saw this channel today. Weirdly entertaining?! Subbed.
Thank you!!
I'm glad you didn't open that thing to a bunch of roaches. I was really expecting roaches.
You and me both!
Maybe a vid of the most common questions you get asked, games/systems people want. Maybe what people have requested for the shop that are good and bad ideas in terms of layout and accessability.
Great idea!
Too much radness in here totally subbed.
Raddddd 💙
This has been such a fun channel to watch. I live in Arizona, and wish we had some used game stores that take the same amount of care you all do! Great casual videos! Side note, what camera are you using to film?
Thanks for watching!!!
We use a few different cameras from a Nikon z8 for the podcast, to our phones for shorts.
This particular video was shot on a DJI Osmo Pocket 3!
@@RadJunk Awesome! Free publicity for that pocket camera. Everything looks sharp smooth!
Seriously thank you! It’s so appreciated.
I love your channel btw! I've been new to it for around a month. And I love it so far!
I dig on these cleaning videos.
11:00 Famous last words.
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That disc almost looked like it had been thrown in a microwave for a few seconds. I used to do that with old scratched up CDs for fun.
That may or may not have been a thing we used to do 😬
Cleaning crusty stuff ASMR is a thing you know 😊
Awesome video! You look after your stock well =)
I would love to visit your shop if you ever do game system repair. My grandmas snes needs repair work. I used to play a lot of Tetris on it just like my grandma
Literally Every Nerd Watching This Has Fallen In Love With This Girl
Like The Girl From Scott Pigrim VS. The World But Who Works At A Video Game Store
You are a brave person touching those nasty cartridges bare handed.
Dude have you seen her husband?
Having a video game store like this is quite cyberpunky.
Sooooooooo relaxing!!!!!!!Loving these Rad crew!!!!!!!!😎🙂💙
Just wanted to point out that without any context of a title, that preview thumbnail suggests a very, very different story.
We think alike. Fellow men of culture. Lol
We love the Crust!
I love content like this... I have a dreamcast and love retro games, they are the best! jetset radio remake!! wooo!!!
totally here to check out retro games and no other reason
You can clean the games with a damp magic eraser. Less exposure to chemicals. You are welcome 😊
If that's how those games looks like just imagine how that customer house looks like 😬🤣
I think you should open the cartridge games when cleaning and see if they are real or fake ,and they get dirty inside too.
I commented too fast,I see you take them apart now sorry
I love watching these videos! 🎉
Thank you!! 💙💙💙
Just wait until you rookies have to open them up!!
I once found 100$ Bill, inside an NES game.
Most of the time, you find dead bugs. No worries, it's the Alive ones you need to watch out for :)
Grab the Raid! But most of the time, what annoys me, are the old video store stickers!!
GOO GONE IS YOUR
BESTIE!! ;)
Take Care and Cheers
from Montreal Quebec Canada xxx&ooo's :)
Would like to see more stuff like this and some of the cartridge cleaning shorts i saw you guys put up before. there's some scary ones i saw like the one with dead bugs..
Also awesome seeing Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn on the shelf in the background when you were showing the handhelds... what's your price for it 👀
Simple Green for the win. I had to *bathe* arcade parts in that stuff to resurrect them. Curious what the Q-Tip/iso-alcohol/simple green budget is for trade ins, lol.
You're pretty cool, just in case you weren't sure. I'm sure you were, but it's just one of those things to say. I think it adds to your marketing appeal. I want to learn more buying and selling margins
you need a hazmat suit for those. thank the heavens there were no baby spiders in that. i was anticipating frights.
We’ve had our fair share of crawling consoles, thank the video game gods it wasn’t the case this time!
That Mario sunshine looks as if someone let it soak in some sort of experimental solution.
I like this content. You have a really cool store.
Your hair makes me think of avatar🤔👍🏻 we need more places like this…I would buy from a store like this over chain places👍🏻 I just did a new factory battery replacement in my first gen Nintendo switch along with the joy cons too and was fun and pretty easy👍🏻