Road Trip Part #2: Video Game Hunting in California + Pickups! — Transcript

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1. 0:00I'm so metal. I eat tattoos for
2. 0:02breakfast.
3. 0:04[Music]
4. 0:28Hey guys, Metal Jesus here and welcome
5. 0:30to part two of my epic 2,000mi road trip
6. 0:35across four different states. In the
7. 0:37first video, we traveled from Medford,
8. 0:39Oregon down to Reno, Nevada, and saw
9. 0:43some amazing, amazing sites along the
10. 0:45way, including Mount Shasta. In Reno, we
11. 0:48checked into the Grand Sierra Resort and
12. 0:50Casino. Did some bowling as well as some
13. 0:53arcade games, and then we visited two
14. 0:56retro gaming stores in the area. That
15. 0:59was really fun. Plus, we also went to
16. 1:01the Reno Public Market and checked out
17. 1:03Junkie Clothing Exchange
18. 1:06as well as ventured down to Lake Tahoe
19. 1:09for more beautiful scenery. These videos
20. 1:13are full of that stuff. And so, if you
21. 1:15missed that video, you're definitely
22. 1:16going to want to check it out. But in
23. 1:19part two, we're going to drive down to
24. 1:20the Sacramento, California area and
25. 1:23attend the Fire and Ice Retro Gaming
26. 1:26Expo. This is a brand new expo in the
27. 1:29area and I found some really cool stuff
28. 1:32I'm going to share with you at the end
29. 1:33of this video. So, let's take a look.
30. 1:37[Music]
31. 1:52[Music]
32. 1:54Today our goal is to drive from Reno,
33. 1:56Nevada down to the Sacramento,
34. 1:57California area. And thankfully, it's
35. 2:00not a very long drive. It's about 130 mi
36. 2:02and probably takes uh 2 hours, 2 and 1
37. 2:05half hours depending on traffic. And
38. 2:08thankfully today when we're driving,
39. 2:10it's not that bad. There's definitely a
40. 2:13lot of traffic on the road, but again,
41. 2:15no major accidents or anything like
42. 2:16that. And as you can see, it's another
43. 2:19really beautiful drive. You're going
44. 2:21through the mountains. You're going on
45. 2:24winding roads and basically just kind of
46. 2:27rolling into Sacramento. And we are very
47. 2:30excited to be here. I've never been. And
48. 2:33the first thing we want to check out is
49. 2:34the old town area of Sacramento. A lot
50. 2:37of people have told me to check this out
51. 2:39and I can definitely see why. The first
52. 2:42thing I noticed is that there's wood
53. 2:43planks on the sidewalks. So, it's
54. 2:46definitely got that kind of old vibe to
55. 2:49it, which I think is pretty cool. And
56. 2:51plus, all of the shops on here, they're
57. 2:54all really interesting and unique.
58. 2:56There's a bunch of pubs, there's a bunch
59. 2:57of little shops you can go in and get,
60. 3:00you know, collectibles or clothing or
61. 3:02whatever. And none of it feels very
62. 3:03corporate at all. And so, we popped into
63. 3:06a pub and played a couple rounds of
64. 3:09pool, had some good food. So, that was
65. 3:11really neat visiting that. And uh as
66. 3:13you'll see, we'll be back a little bit
67. 3:15later, but we don't want to stay out too
68. 3:17late because tomorrow is the first day
69. 3:19of the Fire and Ice Retro Gaming Expo.
70. 3:22And so, that's going to be a big day.
71. 3:25So, we want to be well rested for that.
72. 3:28Now, I've been talking about Sacramento
73. 3:29up to this point, but really this expo
74. 3:32is actually held in a smaller town just
75. 3:34outside of Sacramento called Roseville.
76. 3:37And so it's important to know that this
77. 3:39is the first year for this particular
78. 3:40expo in this location. The thing is that
79. 3:44the organizers of this particular expo
80. 3:46have worked with the Sack Gamers Expo in
81. 3:49Sacramento before, but they own a store
82. 3:52in this area, so they wanted to have an
83. 3:54expo in this particular city as well.
84. 3:56Hopefully that makes sense. So, I don't
85. 3:58want there to be any confusion here, but
86. 4:00you know, for for an outsider like
87. 4:02myself, they're so close together that
88. 4:05they're it makes sense that they would
89. 4:07kind of team up. And this is a massive
90. 4:10convention center. And I got to be
91. 4:12honest with you, it's probably a little
92. 4:14bit too big for their first year. When I
93. 4:16first walked into this, it was a bunch
94. 4:19of kind of empty spaces around
95. 4:22everything in the center there. But the
96. 4:25vendor section of this now, while it was
97. 4:28smaller than most expose I've been to,
98. 4:30they had really good stuff here. And
99. 4:33that's what's most important, right? You
100. 4:35you don't want to go to an expo and just
101. 4:36see a bunch of really common stuff you
102. 4:37can just kind of get anywhere. You go to
103. 4:39these expose cuz you want to be
104. 4:41surprised. You want to be blown away.
105. 4:43You want to see stuff that you can't get
106. 4:44anywhere else. And there were several
107. 4:46booths that had a lot of uncommon games,
108. 4:49specifically what I was looking for.
109. 4:51First, I was looking for like some PS4
110. 4:52games and some Switch games. Found a
111. 4:54bunch. And again, I'm going to show you
112. 4:56those at the end of this. And that is
113. 4:59something I'm seeing at these expos. A
114. 5:01lot of interest buying, selling, trading
115. 5:04last gen games, PlayStation 4, Xbox One,
116. 5:07and Switch. Could it be because those
117. 5:10games are on the disc, you could
118. 5:11actually own them physically forever?
119. 5:15Could be. There was this guy off in the
120. 5:17corner that was kind of blowing my mind
121. 5:19a little bit. He's a motion capture
122. 5:22artist using cheap off-the-shelf
123. 5:25components to do real-time motion
124. 5:27capture. You see it right here with an
125. 5:28iPhone and some sensors on his arms and
126. 5:31legs and a laptop. And he's doing this
127. 5:33in real time. I thought this was so
128. 5:35cool. I'd love to mess around with this.
129. 5:38I mean, you can do all sorts of really
130. 5:39cool stuff in VR and in video games and
131. 5:41movies with this. So, yeah. Check out
132. 5:44his website here if you're interested in
133. 5:46this. I thought it was pretty cool. This
134. 5:48expo brought in a bunch of voice actors
135. 5:49from games that we've all played like
136. 5:51Kingdom Hearts, uh, Street Fighter,
137. 5:53Castlevania, Twisted Metal, Sonic
138. 5:56Adventure, and there was a big reunion
139. 5:59of voice actors that all starred in a
140. 6:02couple of the Silent Hill games. And so
141. 6:04they were signing things and talking to
142. 6:06fans. It was pretty cool. But my
143. 6:08impression of this is that while it was
144. 6:10probably a little bit too big of a venue
145. 6:13for their first year, it was well
146. 6:15attended. I mean, it really was. I was
147. 6:17kind of blown away how many people were
148. 6:20just here the entire time. I did notice
149. 6:23that on the second day things were
150. 6:25noticeably quieter, which is to be
151. 6:26expected, right? I think a lot of people
152. 6:28who go to an expo, one day is enough.
153. 6:30So, you go the first day, you buy the
154. 6:32games that you want, you see the stuff
155. 6:34that you want, there's not a lot of
156. 6:35reason to go back the second day. And we
157. 6:38had a panel at 11:00 a.m. and thankfully
158. 6:41it was well attended. You kind of worry
159. 6:43about that sort of stuff if your panel
160. 6:44is on the second day and you're like,
161. 6:46"Is anybody going to go? Does anybody
162. 6:48care?" But yeah, it was really cool
163. 6:49actually. Uh, you know, I got asked a
164. 6:51bunch of good questions about YouTube
165. 6:53and video games and music and collecting
166. 6:55and all that sort of stuff. So, you
167. 6:57know, it's always a good time hanging
168. 6:58with people at these panels.
169. 7:01And I've said it before, but the second
170. 7:02day of an expo, you know, on Sunday is
171. 7:05is the perfect time to do one more round
172. 7:08of looking for video games, looking for
173. 7:10those deals. None of these vendors want
174. 7:13to take this stuff home, right? They all
175. 7:15bring it there with the intention of
176. 7:17selling it. And so that's the day, if
177. 7:19you want a reason to go on the second
178. 7:21day, that's the reason you go there to
179. 7:23trade and to look for deals. And like I
180. 7:26said, I found a bunch of Switch games
181. 7:28I'd never heard of before. So yeah,
182. 7:30you're going to see those at the end of
183. 7:32this video. Another fun thing about this
184. 7:34was seeing this expo through the eyes of
185. 7:36my buddy Scott, who has never been to a
186. 7:39retro gaming before. And so, you know, I
187. 7:41was kind of curious to see what he would
188. 7:43think. And it was really fun to see him
189. 7:46getting excited about retro video games
190. 7:49because, you know, I I would probably
191. 7:51call him more of a casual gamer. He
192. 7:53plays Call of Duty, plays sports games,
193. 7:55you know, stuff like that, but he's not
194. 7:56like obsessed like I am.
195. 8:00And I really appreciate that. So, you
196. 8:02know, it was interesting cuz while he
197. 8:05was there, he actually bought the first,
198. 8:08you know, like retro physical retro
199. 8:10cartridge games that he had as a kid.
200. 8:12And I could see that look in his eyes
201. 8:14how excited he was. And he immediately
202. 8:16was like, "Okay, how do I get these
203. 8:18connected to my television?" I mean, he
204. 8:21went through all of the steps of video
205. 8:24game addiction all within a weekend. It
206. 8:26was pretty funny to watch. He also met
207. 8:28up with his brother who lives in Oakland
208. 8:30who had never been to an expo. And the
209. 8:32two of them again over at these these
210. 8:35free-to-play areas were really diving
211. 8:38in, you know, jumping in on consoles
212. 8:40that they grew up with, but also
213. 8:42checking out machines that they've never
214. 8:44seen before. So, that was really cool
215. 8:47seeing that through their eyes because,
216. 8:48you know, I I go to expos all the time
217. 8:50now. And so, I'm not jaded, but I've
218. 8:53also seen a lot. And so it was really
219. 8:55funny and cool to see those two really
220. 8:58getting excited. Another thing that
221. 9:00happened is that all weekend long people
222. 9:03came up to me and they kept mentioning
223. 9:05that we need to check out this place
224. 9:06called the cave here in Roseville. You
225. 9:10know, check out the cave. You're going
226. 9:11to love it. I heard that so many times.
227. 9:14And I got to be honest with you, having
228. 9:16spent some time visiting to other retro
229. 9:18gaming stores and now spending an entire
230. 9:21weekend at an expo, I was like I was
231. 9:23like, really? Is it going to be worth
232. 9:25it? Well, here's the thing. We realized
233. 9:29that it was pretty close to our hotel.
234. 9:31And so on the way back from the expo, we
235. 9:34decided to check out the cave. And I got
236. 9:37to be honest with you, this store is
237. 9:39amazing.
238. 9:41Yeah. Yes. They've got a decent video
239. 9:43game selection, but then they have an
240. 9:46entire room dedicated to music and vinyl
241. 9:49records, and another one to vintage
242. 9:52clothing and concert shirts, and then
243. 9:55another one dedicated to movies, and
244. 9:57then another room dedicated to action
245. 9:59figures and collectibles. This place is
246. 10:02massive. It's funny because both Rebecca
247. 10:06and Scott said that this was their
248. 10:08favorite place of the entire trip. We
249. 10:11walked around there for quite a while.
250. 10:14And uh I got to be honest, it's hard to
251. 10:16disagree with them. There was so much
252. 10:18stuff here. Everywhere you looked, there
253. 10:21was something cool and weird and awesome
254. 10:24that you've just never seen before. Me
255. 10:27personally, the rock and metal vinyl
256. 10:29section was probably the largest I've
257. 10:32ever seen. I mean, it just went on and
258. 10:35on and on. You know, most record stores
259. 10:38will have a couple, you know, couple
260. 10:41areas for metal. You know, sure, you
261. 10:44know, you can find stuff there, but not
262. 10:45like this. Oh my god, it just it went on
263. 10:48and on and on. It was amazing. And you
264. 10:50want to hear something funny that they
265. 10:51do? It's weird because it seems like on
266. 10:55purpose they throw in non-metal stuff or
267. 11:00non genre specific stuff into each
268. 11:03section almost to get you to look at
269. 11:06something that you might otherwise not.
270. 11:08So for instance, you'll be digging
271. 11:10through, you know, metal and then all of
272. 11:11a sudden a random Ariana Grande album
273. 11:14will be there. You're like, you know,
274. 11:15next to some like death metal and you're
275. 11:17just like, what what is this doing here?
276. 11:19But it's not just isolated. Like it's
277. 11:21almost intentional. I'm not entirely
278. 11:24sure what's going on here. So, it's
279. 11:26pretty funny actually because you may
280. 11:29actually bump into something and, you
281. 11:31know, just be like, "Okay." I mean, I
282. 11:33didn't buy an Ariana Grande album, but
283. 11:36it was kind of cool to see cuz it
284. 11:37happened all throughout this. So, I
285. 11:39wonder if they do it intentionally.
286. 11:41Another thing that happened while we're
287. 11:43in this area is that Scott and his
288. 11:45brother went to a baseball game. When
289. 11:47originally he came up to me, he's like,
290. 11:49"Dude, we're going to go check out this
291. 11:50baseball game. Do you want to come?" I
292. 11:51was like, "Oh man, I got some other
293. 11:52stuff I want to do." But he was pumped
294. 11:54because I guess the Cleveland Guardians
295. 11:56and the Athletics were playing and it
296. 12:00was in the AAA park in Sacramento and he
297. 12:03was all excited because I guess it's
298. 12:04like bobblehead giveaway day. And again,
299. 12:08I don't know anything about baseball,
300. 12:09but I could see it in their eyes that
301. 12:11they were so pumped for this. And so,
302. 12:14they went to this baseball game. And uh
303. 12:16yeah, that was a really cool little
304. 12:17moment for them as well. And then the
305. 12:19next part of this journey is going to be
306. 12:21us heading over to the Pacific Coast and
307. 12:23winding our way up Highway 101, taking
308. 12:26in some beautiful scenery in the last
309. 12:29part of this road trip. But I need to
310. 12:32share with you some of the pickups I
311. 12:34got, including these random Switch
312. 12:36games.
313. 12:38None of these I had heard of before.
314. 12:40It's amazing to me how many games came
315. 12:43out on Switch and how many of them
316. 12:45actually got a physical copy. So, at
317. 12:48this point, I haven't actually played a
318. 12:50lot of these yet. So, I don't really
319. 12:53have a deep, you know, review of any of
320. 12:56them, unfortunately. But, I will in a
321. 12:58future video. But I want to show you
322. 12:59some of the things that I got, including
323. 13:01a random PSP game. You guys know that
324. 13:03I'm going for a complete North America
325. 13:05collection, and I did not have this one
326. 13:08where it has this cardboard case over it
327. 13:09here for Kingdom Hearts. So, I saw this
328. 13:12great condition, cheap games. So, I
329. 13:14picked this up at the expo was a table
330. 13:17for Audacity Games. This is the ex
331. 13:20Activision developers that have in
332. 13:23recent years been making new games for
333. 13:25the Atari 2600. And this is their latest
334. 13:28one called Casey's Gold. And I saw this
335. 13:30and I was like, I you know, I mean, I
336. 13:32love my Atari 2600 and new games for it
337. 13:35I have to pick up. And uh again, I
338. 13:37haven't played this yet, but I'm looking
339. 13:38forward to it. I'll cover it in a future
340. 13:40video with with Reggie when I, you know,
341. 13:42pickups with him. A fan came up to me
342. 13:45and gave me this. I guess it's a bootleg
343. 13:48MVS game. I had to tell him though, I
344. 13:50was like, "Dude, I don't have this Neo
345. 13:53Geo console in my game room. can't
346. 13:54actually play this, but he said, "Don't
347. 13:57worry about it. It's a bootleg. It's not
348. 13:59very expensive." So, he just wanted me
349. 14:01to have it, which okay, that's cool.
350. 14:04Somebody recommended I check this out.
351. 14:05It's called Pressure Overdrive. And this
352. 14:08is kind of like a special edition of it
353. 14:10here. And the way they described it is a
354. 14:13top-down racing driving game, but it
355. 14:16plays more like a shooter. So, yes, you
356. 14:19do control the car, but you are shooting
357. 14:22the bad guys and you're taking jumps and
358. 14:23stuff. So, it sounded pretty interesting
359. 14:25and so curious to check this out and
360. 14:28play more of it. A fan of my channel
361. 14:30gave me this. It is the soundtrack to
362. 14:33Fatal Fury on vinyl.
363. 14:36I love vinyl and I love video game
364. 14:38music, so this is very cool. Thank you
365. 14:40so much. And then lately, I've been
366. 14:43buying some VHS movies and concerts.
367. 14:46specifically my buddy Jesse. He gave me
368. 14:50a working VHS player for my game room.
369. 14:54And I got to be honest with you, I
370. 14:55haven't thought about VHS in a long
371. 14:57time, but connecting it to a CRT, it
372. 15:00does still look pretty good. And so,
373. 15:02I've been kind of on the hunt for, you
374. 15:05know, random stuff here and there to
375. 15:07play on my VHS and uh my VCR. So, that's
376. 15:11what these are for. And I mentioned that
377. 15:13the cave sells action figures and it was
378. 15:15hard to walk out of there without at
379. 15:17least buying a couple of them. I saw
380. 15:19this one for Planet Terror. I love that
381. 15:22movie. And this is the one where her leg
382. 15:26detaches and she actually has a machine
383. 15:28gun. I thought that was pretty cool, so
384. 15:31I had to pick that one up as well as
385. 15:33another one for Iron Maiden. There's so
386. 15:36many cool Iron Maiden action figures out
387. 15:38there and Number of the Beast is one of
388. 15:40my favorite albums from the band. So, of
389. 15:42course, that's going in the game room as
390. 15:44well. And so, that guys is part two of
391. 15:46the road trip going through Oregon,
392. 15:51California, and Nevada. And coming up,
393. 15:54we are going to be rounding it out on
394. 15:57the Pacific Coast Highway, Highway 101.
395. 16:01It's going to be beautiful. And in
396. 16:03there, we're going to go up to Kuzbay.
397. 16:05We're going to check out another game
398. 16:06store as well as a music store. We're
399. 16:08going to do a bunch of sightseeing along
400. 16:10the way. Scott's going to ride a UTV for
401. 16:13a while. Uh I'm going to check out some
402. 16:15local stuff. It's going to be pretty
403. 16:17cool. And then we're going to end in
404. 16:18Portland, Oregon, over 2,000 miles. It's
405. 16:22been a good road trip and it ends on a
406. 16:25high note. So, you're definitely going
407. 16:27to want to be subscribed because that
408. 16:29part three is going to be coming very
409. 16:31soon. All right, guys. Well, thank you
410. 16:33very much for watching. Thank you for
411. 16:34subscribing and take care.