Road Trip Part #3: Insanely RARE GAME FINDS in Oregon! — Transcript

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1. 0:00Yeah. Oh, by the way, we have that. I'm
2. 0:02like, what?
3. 0:08[Music]
4. 0:18[Music]
5. 0:27Hey guys, Metal Jesus here, and I'm back
6. 0:29with part three of our epic 2,000mi road
7. 0:33trip through Nevada, California, and
8. 0:36Oregon. In previous parts one and two,
9. 0:39we visited Reno, Nevada, and stayed in a
10. 0:41casino. We did some bowling. We did some
11. 0:44video game hunting. We went down and
12. 0:46checked out Lake Tahoe. And then after
13. 0:49that, we went to the Sacramento area
14. 0:50where we visited the brand new Fire and
15. 0:53Ice Retro Gaming Expo there. We had a
16. 0:56great time at that expo and found a
17. 0:58bunch of really cool video games, which
18. 1:00I showed in the previous videos. But in
19. 1:02part three, we are going to head over to
20. 1:04the Pacific Coast and wind our way north
21. 1:06up Highway 101. We're going to see some
22. 1:09amazing sites along the way. We're also
23. 1:13going to stop in Kuz Bay and check out
24. 1:15some video game stores as well as some
25. 1:17music records shops. Also take in some
26. 1:20of the local scenery. And then we're
27. 1:22going to end this trip in Portland,
28. 1:24Oregon. There's a lot going on in this
29. 1:26video, so let's take a look.
30. 1:29[Music]
31. 1:44[Music]
32. 1:46This next leg of the road trip is about
33. 1:48a 5-hour drive over to Eureka,
34. 1:50California, as we head over to the coast
35. 1:54and we get out of the big cities for a
36. 1:56while. And this is the part of the road
37. 1:58trip that Scott is actually looking
38. 1:59forward to the most. Really for two
39. 2:01reasons. The first one being he's never
40. 2:03actually been to the Pacific coast in
41. 2:06Northern California and Oregon. And it's
42. 2:09one of those things where it's so
43. 2:12beautiful and also so different than
44. 2:14what we have up in Washington. The
45. 2:17Oregon coast actually is pretty rugged
46. 2:19and I like that about it. It's very
47. 2:22beautiful pretty much everywhere you go.
48. 2:25And the other reason is that we're
49. 2:26getting out of the cities. You know, the
50. 2:28whole point of this road trip is to get
51. 2:30in our cars and drive them, get out of
52. 2:32the city, get out of traffic and all
53. 2:34that sort of mess and just enjoy our
54. 2:36cars on these lonely, winding roads. And
55. 2:41that's exactly what we did here. And
56. 2:43both of our cars are very different from
57. 2:45each other. So, mine is a 2022 GTI. It's
58. 2:48a front-wheel drive car, and it weighs
59. 2:50just a little over 3,000 lb. And then
60. 2:53Scott's car is a 2024 BMW M3, which is a
61. 2:56rearwheel drive car and weighs
62. 2:59significantly more. It's about 1,000 lbs
63. 3:01more than my car, but his also has much
64. 3:05more horsepower. So, it's interesting to
65. 3:08kind of see these two cars and how they
66. 3:11drive on these back roads, these windy
67. 3:13roads. Uh, it's fun cuz that's what
68. 3:16they're made for. And what's cool is
69. 3:18that once you get over to the coast,
70. 3:20there are lots of opportunities to pull
71. 3:22over and do a bunch of sightseeing. It
72. 3:24happens pretty much every couple miles.
73. 3:27Uh the first one that we ran into is
74. 3:28Chandelier Tree in the Redwoods. You
75. 3:32hear about this all the time. It's it's
76. 3:35one of those iconic things in Northern
77. 3:37California. You see it in movies and on
78. 3:40postcards and posters and all that sort
79. 3:42of stuff. Basically, it's where you
80. 3:44drive your car through this massive
81. 3:46tree. And yes, this old tree is still
82. 3:50very much alive. Although the hole that
83. 3:53you drive your car through is smaller
84. 3:56and narrower than you might expect. I
85. 3:59certainly was kind of surprised here
86. 4:01because both of our cars, while not
87. 4:04huge, they just barely fit through with
88. 4:07only just like a couple inches to spare
89. 4:09on either side. I was quite surprised.
90. 4:12And I'll be honest, it's kind of cheesy,
91. 4:14but it's also cool. I mean, you
92. 4:15basically just show up here, you hang
93. 4:17out for, you know, 10, 15 minutes, there
94. 4:20is a little gift shop, and then you're
95. 4:21on your way. So, it doesn't take a lot
96. 4:23of time. It's not too expensive. And
97. 4:25this roadside attraction has been around
98. 4:28since the 1930s. So, it's iconic and
99. 4:32again, it doesn't take a lot of time off
100. 4:34the side road, so definitely check it
101. 4:36out. You'll also run into stuff like
102. 4:38Paul Bunan and his big blue ox babe.
103. 4:41That's kind of funny. You can't miss it.
104. 4:43It's massive just alongside the road.
105. 4:46You can stop there and spend a couple
106. 4:47hours kind of going through the forest.
107. 4:49And there's just tons of places as you
108. 4:51go north on 101 to pull off and take
109. 4:55photos. You can also walk down to the
110. 4:57beach on many of these. You know, check
111. 4:59out the beautiful water, the beautiful
112. 5:01scenery. It's honestly, it just goes on
113. 5:03for miles and miles, hours and hours.
114. 5:07It's it's truly stunning.
115. 5:20Once we made it to Kuz Bay, the first
116. 5:22stop I wanted to check out is Recycle
117. 5:24Games. That is that game store that we
118. 5:26first visited about 2 years ago. Now,
119. 5:30immediately I noticed that they changed
120. 5:31the look and the feel of the store since
121. 5:33the last time I was here. I would say
122. 5:35that there's probably a little bit less
123. 5:36clutter. It's also a little bit easier
124. 5:38to get around, but they still had it
125. 5:40packed full of goodies. Annie, the store
126. 5:43owner, came out and greeted me and she
127. 5:45wanted to show some stuff that she had
128. 5:47acquired, including this one of one Xbox
129. 5:51Series X. And you notice here that it
130. 5:54has a custom paint job on here, as well
131. 5:56as the controller. And then inside is a
132. 6:00congratulations letter. So, this was won
133. 6:03by an Xbox fan here in Kous Bay. and
134. 6:07then Microsoft sent it to him. And so
135. 6:09here's the letter. Uh, very cool. And
136. 6:12it's incredibly hard to put a value on
137. 6:15it. Honestly, I don't even know if she's
138. 6:16going to sell it. I think she's just got
139. 6:18it in the store to show as kind of like
140. 6:21a, you know, a show piece or a trophy or
141. 6:23something that she would put on the wall
142. 6:25because again, there's only one in the
143. 6:27world. So, it's weird because, right,
144. 6:30because it's so incredibly rare, but
145. 6:31it's also the Xbox Series X. It's not
146. 6:34It's not collectible yet, but I thought
147. 6:37it was pretty neat.
148. 6:43[Music]
149. 6:51Another thing that they brought out to
150. 6:52show me is this custommade Nintendo 64.
151. 6:56Initially, they didn't tell me what was
152. 6:58different about this, and you're
153. 6:59probably noticing this off a little bit.
154. 7:01Well, that's because it is a 3D printed
155. 7:04shell that glows in the dark. And
156. 7:07basically, this is just the machine that
157. 7:08they use to test cartridges that are
158. 7:10sold to them, but they wanted it to be
159. 7:12unique and kind of stand out. And yeah,
160. 7:15it's pretty cool looking. She also
161. 7:17showed me the second storage room, which
162. 7:19has expanded a lot since I was here 2
163. 7:22years ago. When I was here 2 years ago,
164. 7:24there's basically just stuff on the
165. 7:25floor and a little bit, you know, on the
166. 7:27wall. Uh since then she's had several
167. 7:30new collections traded in. You can see
168. 7:32right here there's hardly even any
169. 7:35walking room in here. So uh this was
170. 7:38quite the thing to see. Uh she did show
171. 7:41that she actually got quite a bit more
172. 7:42big box PC games as well as strategy
173. 7:45guides. And I'll show you what I picked
174. 7:47up from here uh at the end of this
175. 7:50video. Along with video games, she's
176. 7:52also added some stuff traded in from the
177. 7:54original Dungeons and Dragons. So, she's
178. 7:56got these books here signed by Gary
179. 7:58Gyax. So, that was pretty cool. Not
180. 8:01entirely sure what she's going to do
181. 8:02with these. She said she might sell them
182. 8:04on eBay. She might leave them in the
183. 8:06store for, you know, a local collector.
184. 8:08So, if you're interested, you might want
185. 8:10to reach out to her. But overall, it was
186. 8:12really fun going back into recycle
187. 8:13games. I'm glad that Annie is still
188. 8:15doing well and the store is doing great.
189. 8:18And she's still talking about doing that
190. 8:20museum. We'll have to see if that
191. 8:21actually happens one day. But I know
192. 8:23that she's got the inventory for because
193. 8:26everywhere you look, there's something
194. 8:27really interesting that she could put in
195. 8:28that.
196. 8:40It was also recommended I check out a
197. 8:42local record store called Off the
198. 8:44Record. I was excited to check this out
199. 8:46because I've heard they've got a bunch
200. 8:48of vinyl records. And I thought it was
201. 8:50pretty interesting because way in the
202. 8:52back as you walk through the store, they
203. 8:55have a selection of turntables back
204. 8:57there to kind of help people start out
205. 8:59their vinyl music, you know, adventure
206. 9:02essentially. So, you don't have to get
207. 9:04it from Amazon. you can come here and
208. 9:05actually get something that's tested and
209. 9:07talk to them because they can basically
210. 9:09recommend, you know, some really
211. 9:11high-end stuff if that's what you're
212. 9:12looking for, like this Macintosh setup
213. 9:14here, or you can kind of go cheaper,
214. 9:17basically just, you know, dip your toe
215. 9:18in it a little bit and get one of those
216. 9:20Crosley's. So, basically something for
217. 9:22everyone. And so, I dug through many of
218. 9:24the records here and I did find some
219. 9:27really cool stuff. I'm going to share
220. 9:28with you what I got at the end of the
221. 9:30video.
222. 9:42We also visited two state parks in the
223. 9:44Kuz Bay area. And the first one you see
224. 9:45here, uh, the tide is just way out,
225. 9:49exposing way more of the beach than
226. 9:51normal. And, uh, we were here actually
227. 9:53in early in the morning on the second
228. 9:54day. Not a ton of people here yet, which
229. 9:57was kind of nice. So, we kind of had it
230. 9:58all to ourselves. And then really close
231. 10:00to this, just down the road a bit, was a
232. 10:02second state park. And this one had a
233. 10:05completely different look to it where
234. 10:07you used to go out here and it's like
235. 10:08super jagged cliffs and these rock
236. 10:11formations. We stood here for quite a
237. 10:13while kind of taking this in. Again, we
238. 10:15kind of had the place to ourselves,
239. 10:17which is pretty cool. That is one of the
240. 10:19nice things when you visit these small
241. 10:20little towns on the Oregon coast.
242. 10:22They're not very big. You know, they
243. 10:24don't have a ton of crowds. you know,
244. 10:26maybe on holiday weekends and stuff, but
245. 10:29for the most part, it's pretty easy to
246. 10:30go and, you know, just kind of chill out
247. 10:33and be by yourself.
248. 10:36[Music]
249. 10:40It was also recommended that I visit
250. 10:42Mingus Gardens in the city, and I'm glad
251. 10:45that I did. It was a really nice just
252. 10:48afternoon
253. 10:50walking around this small little lake.
254. 10:52There's this little walking path that
255. 10:54goes around it. Again, not a ton of
256. 10:56people here. This was pretty chill.
257. 11:00Beautiful. There's lots of ducks and
258. 11:02other birds just kind of flittering
259. 11:04about. So, that was definitely a nice
260. 11:06break as well. So, you know, it's good
261. 11:09to get out and touch grass every once in
262. 11:10a while, right?
263. 11:23[Music]
264. 11:26While I was doing all of this, Scott
265. 11:27took the afternoon and rented a UTV on
266. 11:30the sand dunes. The cool thing is that
267. 11:32it's only about five or six miles
268. 11:34outside of town, so it's not very far.
269. 11:36You go out there, you rent this thing,
270. 11:38and you basically just have a blast kind
271. 11:40of bombing around the sand dunes. He
272. 11:43came back with a huge smile on his face.
273. 11:45So yeah, in addition to, you know, it's
274. 11:48fun to explore beaches, but yeah, you
275. 11:49can actually do this as well, especially
276. 11:51when you're visiting Kuz Bay. It was at
277. 11:54this point that it was time for Scott
278. 11:55and I to part ways. His plan is to
279. 11:58continue going up the Oregon coast for a
280. 12:00bit. He wants to check out more of the
281. 12:01scenery there because he's never been.
282. 12:03And I'm going to head over to Portland
283. 12:05for a couple days. It's funny because
284. 12:07when we were planning this trip, Scott
285. 12:10discovered that Tieuk Cheese Factory is
286. 12:13on the Oregon coast and he is a massive
287. 12:16fan of their cheese. And I mean, who
288. 12:19isn't really? It's so good, right? We
289. 12:21eat it all the time. But uh yeah, he had
290. 12:23never been to the cheese factory, so he
291. 12:25made it a point to drive up there and go
292. 12:28through the factory, do the whole
293. 12:29touristy thing, visit the gift shop. He
294. 12:32was very excited. And then later on, he
295. 12:34ended up at a Bare Naked Ladies concert.
296. 12:38He he texted me. He's like, "Dude, I'm
297. 12:39going to go see the Bare Naked Ladies
298. 12:40tonight." I'm like, "Really?" I didn't
299. 12:42even know that they were playing, but he
300. 12:44is all about live concert, which is
301. 12:45cool. So, it's funny because I was
302. 12:48reminded that they did the theme song
303. 12:50for The Big Bang Theory. I love that
304. 12:53show. I love that theme song. And so, he
305. 12:55actually sent me a couple videos of them
306. 12:57playing that song, but unfortunately, I
307. 12:59can't use the audio here on YouTube
308. 13:01because of copyright w. And then for me,
309. 13:05I wanted to end this epic trip visiting
310. 13:07Side Quest Games in the Portland area.
311. 13:10So, Side Quest Games made this entire
312. 13:12trip possible. They are the sponsor of
313. 13:14this video and I was thrilled to get
314. 13:17another chance to go visit that store
315. 13:19and that's exactly what I did. And so I
316. 13:22got to meet up with Josh and the
317. 13:23employees and walk around the store for
318. 13:25a bit, kind of explore some of the stuff
319. 13:27that's going on there. They recently had
320. 13:30a full GameCube game collection traded
321. 13:33into the store. That is not something
322. 13:35you see every day and it included some
323. 13:38heavy hitters. thing about the GameCube
324. 13:41is obviously it wasn't as popular as the
325. 13:44PlayStation 2. And so some of these
326. 13:46games either were exclusive to it and
327. 13:49kind of hard to get today or they maybe
328. 13:51just didn't sell very well. And so
329. 13:53people going for complete GameCube
330. 13:55collections know how some of these
331. 13:57titles I'm showing you right here can be
332. 13:59very hard to find and very expensive. He
333. 14:03also has the Simpsons branded Xbox 360
334. 14:06and controller. So again, this is
335. 14:09something that you don't see every day.
336. 14:10They didn't make a ton of these and
337. 14:12collectors of Xbox have been wanting to
338. 14:14find this. Uh he's got it in the store.
339. 14:17Now, what's cool about this one, it
340. 14:19still has the original Blade operating
341. 14:22system on it, and I don't know about
342. 14:23you, but I loved that version of the 360
343. 14:28operating system. They changed it over
344. 14:30the years and it, you know, it was fine,
345. 14:34but this original Blade version is
346. 14:36pretty cool and this still has it. Here
347. 14:38are their store mascots, Louiso and
348. 14:41Marcus. I guess these were originally
349. 14:43licensed by Nintendo back in 1988.
350. 14:47They were distributed by carnival
351. 14:49retailers and I guess they came in
352. 14:52several sizes and these things are huge.
353. 14:55Some other stuff that was pretty cool in
354. 14:56the store. He has these retro hats. Now,
355. 14:59I'm not a hat guy, but I do like seeing
356. 15:02some of these things here. So, that was
357. 15:04pretty cool to see. He also has a
358. 15:06special version of Uncharted 2. Now, I'm
359. 15:09trying to remember, but I think these
360. 15:11were sent to influencers and some of the
361. 15:14reviewers of the day. Specifically, I
362. 15:17remember that dagger, that key dagger
363. 15:20being a part of this. I was very jealous
364. 15:22cuz a friend of mine got it. Britney,
365. 15:24she got one of these. It's probably
366. 15:25still in her collection, too. So, loved
367. 15:28Uncharted 2. That's probably my favorite
368. 15:30game of the series. And this is a really
369. 15:32special version of that. Another thing
370. 15:34that came in with that GameCube
371. 15:36collection is this sealed copy of
372. 15:38Pokemon Channel. Now, that by itself
373. 15:41isn't very unusual. However, if you flip
374. 15:44it over, you notice that it comes
375. 15:45bundled with a Pokemon Mini. We hadn't
376. 15:49seen that before, have you? And so, as
377. 15:52you can see, Side Quest Games in the
378. 15:54Portland area is a great retro gaming
379. 15:56store. They've always got a ton of
380. 15:57really interesting stuff to find in
381. 15:59here. And Josh, the owner, is a big part
382. 16:03of the gaming community. He's also one
383. 16:06of the organizers of the Portland Retro
384. 16:08Gaming Expo. So, in addition to running
385. 16:10the store, he's also spending time
386. 16:12making sure that that expo is going to
387. 16:14be as great as it always is. And so, if
388. 16:17you're in the area, you should
389. 16:18definitely check out Side Quest Games.
390. 16:20It's a fantastic store and I want to
391. 16:22thank them for sponsoring this entire
392. 16:24road trip. And with that said, you're
393. 16:26probably wondering what I picked up.
394. 16:28Well, it's been a while since I bought a
395. 16:30new Nintendo cartridge, but I mentioned
396. 16:33to Josh that one of the things I I miss
397. 16:36in my collection is a complete copy of
398. 16:39Excite Bike. It's my favorite NES game
399. 16:42by far. I rode motorcycles as a kid. I
400. 16:45was passionate about them and I loved
401. 16:48this game and for whatever reason I've
402. 16:49just never had a complete copy of it. So
403. 16:52he had this version here and I picked it
404. 16:54up at Side Quest. He also had this
405. 16:57random game I'd never seen before called
406. 16:59Iron Cryptic. No idea what this was. I
407. 17:02picked it up. I played it a little bit
408. 17:04so far and it's kind of like Gauntlet
409. 17:08meets Smash TV. It's pretty wild. So,
410. 17:13I'm not entirely sure how I feel about
411. 17:14it. It's I had fun playing it so far,
412. 17:16but I definitely want to give it a
413. 17:18little bit more time. I I just, you
414. 17:20know, frankly just picked it up. I've
415. 17:22also been casually buying UMD movies for
416. 17:25the PSP. Not a ton, but if I see them
417. 17:28and they're cheap, I'll pick them up.
418. 17:29And I picked this up for a specific
419. 17:32reason, and it's because I've always
420. 17:34wanted to watch the original Assault on
421. 17:36Precinct 13. I've heard it's really
422. 17:38good. I've never seen it. And then he
423. 17:40also had the remake, which I have no
424. 17:43idea if it's any good or not, but I
425. 17:45figured what the heck, I'll give it a
426. 17:46shot. And so, yeah, I've been picking up
427. 17:48random UMD movies here and there. Again,
428. 17:52I'm not going to pay more than just a
429. 17:53couple bucks for most of these because
430. 17:55obviously the format is very limited,
431. 17:58but it's also kind of neat. So, I, you
432. 18:01know, I'm kind of dipping my toe a
433. 18:03little bit. Here's a horror game that I
434. 18:05saw on the Switch that I swear I watched
435. 18:08a trailer or maybe a review at some
436. 18:11point. I'm not entirely sure, but I
437. 18:13looked at the back and I like its black
438. 18:15and white aesthetics. Looks kind of like
439. 18:17manga or something. So, I don't know
440. 18:20anything about it. I have no idea if
441. 18:22it's even any good or not, but it seemed
442. 18:24interesting, so I picked it up. I did
443. 18:27pick up two big box PC games in Kuz Bay.
444. 18:29You see the first one here, Bloodstone.
445. 18:31Don't know anything about it, but could
446. 18:34be kind of cool. Looks like an RPG of
447. 18:35some type. And then another RPG here by
448. 18:38Cerech and I've seen this one before.
449. 18:42I've never owned it, never played it,
450. 18:44but thought it might be kind of cool to
451. 18:46pick up. It was complete and a decent
452. 18:48price. I did pick up some music in Koos
453. 18:50Bay. The first one being the singles
454. 18:52soundtrack on vinyl. So, I've owned the
455. 18:55CD version of this for decades and I
456. 18:58absolutely love the movie, of course.
457. 19:00Right. It's classic Seattle,
458. 19:03but uh I didn't own the vinyl version.
459. 19:05And what's cool about this particular
460. 19:06one here is that it has a CD on the
461. 19:09inside. And I believe it's extra songs.
462. 19:12I'm not entirely sure yet. Haven't
463. 19:13listened to it, but I saw this. I was
464. 19:15like, "Oh, yeah. Must own that on
465. 19:17vinyl." And then I was surprised to see
466. 19:19this. So, this is Urge Overkill. And
467. 19:23this has a special place in my heart
468. 19:25because in the '9s I worked at a record
469. 19:28store in the Seattle area. And when this
470. 19:31album came out, we played it in the
471. 19:35record store probably every day for like
472. 19:38weeks, if not months after this came
473. 19:41out. It's such a cool album. I don't
474. 19:43know if a lot of people remember it or
475. 19:45not. Um, but man, it's a great album. A
476. 19:49ton of variety on this album. So, I was
477. 19:51very happy to get a copy of this. And
478. 19:54so, that guys is the conclusion of my
479. 19:56epic 2,000mi road trip starting in
480. 19:58Washington State, going down to Oregon,
481. 20:01Nevada, California, back up to Oregon,
482. 20:04and then finally home in Seattle.
483. 20:07I hope you guys enjoyed it. We had a
484. 20:10great time. Although, if I'm honest, by
485. 20:13the end of it, I was getting pretty sick
486. 20:16of hotels
487. 20:18cuz we stayed in six hotels over 2
488. 20:20weeks. And so, I was getting fairly
489. 20:22tired of the hotel life at this point.
490. 20:25And I was ready to go home. But we had a
491. 20:28blast and I'd do it again in a
492. 20:29heartbeat. I also want to give another
493. 20:31thank you to Side Quest Games for
494. 20:33sponsoring this trip. That was very cool
495. 20:36of Josh. And uh yeah, check out his
496. 20:38store if you're in the area cuz you
497. 20:40won't regret it. And as always guys, I
498. 20:43want to thank you for watching my
499. 20:44channel. Thank you for subscribing and
500. 20:45take care.