Money Laundering Through Graded Games, Next Big Game Genre -
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"Tommy" comes through once again. Pure genius this week. "Tommy" truly is the Zelda cartoon to Pat and Ian's Super Mario Bros Super Show.
Well excuuuuuuuse me, Pat and Ian!
@@IanNewYashaTheFinalAct lmao
"Pail??? We're not working on a high rise...". That allusion to 1920s workers eating sandwiches, on the superstructure of the Chrysler building was 10/10.
Okay, now it makes sense.
I really appreciate editing the pics in of what you're talking about, it helps get a better idea of things. Love you guys!
Money laundering through auction houses is nothing new, my old art appreciation teacher would tell us stories about how corrupt art auctions use to be.
I love the Tommy parts at the end the best.
Could you please turn up the volume of the messages to match your voices so they are easier to hear?
Capcom's canon "Legend of Chun-Li" happens to be:
*_To Whom It May Concern:_*
*_A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away,_*
*_It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,_*
*_call me "Ishmael."_*
Epic canon fodder
I lost it at 'call me Ishmael' lol
Money laundering would be the more honest scam involving graded video game prices.
Well it's good to know the graded game sellers aren't THAT evil LOL.
The Tommy impersonator is hilarious!
Street Fighter the Animated movie was excellent.
Tommy Tallarico quoting Charles Dickens my head is spinning :D
Happens through graded comics and trading cards too. Pokémon
I like playing on actual CRTs, but like 95% of the filters I've seen are hideous. They come across more like a weird photoshop of a CRT than a genuine CRT.
The TVs I played on growing up actually didn't have much of a scanline effect at all; the picture lines were so bright that they mostly bled over into the neighboring lines and left behind only the faintest of black scanlines, and you had to get up right next to the screen to really notice them. So when the early emulators started adding in those extremely dark and basic scanline filters I just found them to be hideous and inaccurate.
Also, for as much talk as there is about intentional dithering to blend colors over composite video, there's hardly any talk about games that were originally designed to be played on crisp RGB/VGA quality arcade monitors, and whose console ports usually didn't significantly change the artwork to account for consumer TV video connections. There's a whole lot of nuance to be considered when talking about the "intended" way for a game to look, and the answer can change a lot on an individual game-by-game basis.
Jeez, could the calls be played back with the volume any lower?
I miss Roo & The Commodore and Echo Screen Live, it was one of the first podcasts I watched live. And it goes without saying 16 Bit Gems was amazing.
Oh, whats the Soup Of The Day?
I have a soft spot for the Final Fantasy movie. I dragged my old man to see it with me in theatres when I was a tween. Thanks for being a trooper, dad!
Yeah, I’ve definitely watched worse
Really great info guys. All the best from Canada!
I don’t know when, but someday you’ll have to make a video of all these Tommy calls, they’re too good.
It’s not a true voicemail segment without Tommy giving the ole gang a call!
The new Retrotink 5x filter update is kind of mind blowing if you haven't seen it. Mike retweeted a very good CZcams video that highlights what types of crts they are going after.
I'll post it in the Discord when I find it.
Yes! Received mine Wednesday (ebay) and it’s awesome! Just got my Wii/WiiU Retrovision Component today so I’ll be testing those out with the TINK.
We are coming very close to being about as authentic as you can get on HDTVs. Mike Chi is an absolute engineering wizard!
Wait until Tommy announces the Super Amico and Amico 64, WOOOO!!
Should that not be the Intellivision 64? I mean it was the fAMICOm, Super fAMICOm and Nintendo 64.
@@badbusiness2113 You Sir win the Interwebz, how did I not see that? WOOOOOOOOO!!
I grew up in the 80's and I say goodbye to scanlines. I never "got" the appeal 🤷♂️
might have to put tommy on the payroll
Fraud? In MY retro game collecting? Wata terrible thing to think
Even at smaller scale collectibles can be useful for money laundering. Using dirty cash to buy games cheap in a bundle from local sales, sell them individually for a profit via PayPal and that money can then be put in the bank or invested in a ETF or something like that
I like how that one caller just assumed Pat and Ian brought in their lunches like it was the most natural thing. For most of my time as a kid my family was too broke for me to bring in lunch or even pay for the cafeteria lunch (they were subsidized for low income families). A lot of the kids I knew didn't bring in lunches either.
Imagine if the twist is that the Tommy caller is the real Tommy after all.
Krull on the 2600 was very good.
Agreed. I loved the arcade game, but the 2600 version was extremely good for its time.
Omg "tommy" absolutely killed it! Great jokes!!!!!
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is the only movie to actually cause me physical pain.
When we can have AI that can have real conversations I think a relationship building RPG will be a huge genre. I imagine Mass Effect and Animal Crossing will be the inspiration but to have a game where you can have real conversations with NPCs will be ground breaking.
You guys gotta do a tommy compilation video. That guy is hilarious
Oh….. for sure
Nice to hear Roo is doing well
3:18 to that question I personally think that since everything has been discovered in the standard sit-down look-at-the-screen way of playing video games its going to work like everything else that has been taken to the limit. Like music and fashion, I think it will simply revisit and go backward. It might actually be starting to do that right now.
Tron. Came out same time as movie
I love the intro song and I listen to it all the time super tight song
I'm going to get WATA to grade my mint and sealed AOL4.0 disk. starting bid is $20,000 US.
I remember roo mentioning he was gonna do robotrek for a 16-bit gems episode at one point and I was waiting and waiting and finally being like where the hell is robotrek already??
Rich people gonna rich people.
MK: Annihilation is the best "bad good" video game movie 🥰🤣
Love the Taylor Pork Roll sticker!!! Ur the only person ive seen that knows about it lol. DddddddddddddLicious
A new genre? What about that exercise one on The Switch, the adventure one. There seems to be a new genre each year I'm pretty sure.
Jet Set Radio; made me combine two hobbies for one evening
the next genre is role-playing as a South Korean battling the LGBT community, according to the media
I'm old enough to have had a metal lunchbox. Star Trek the Movie lunch box, baby.
1:10 "no pail, no *sack"* poor Joe Redifer :(
Gamers can boycott Wata and other graded game scams. If you're collecting graded video games, you're not a gamer, and you're not even a very good investor.
You’re not a gamer if you collect graded games? So it’s one or the other? Pretty broad gatekeeping statement.
@@Ret_Chrogames Do you know anyone who actually plays video games that grades these things?? Even sealed game collecting is kinda stupid--like, they're video games, these things are meant to be played. Not kept in plastic sleeves and graded, as if a copy of Little Samson is worth any less because it's got a little color fade on the face sticker. They're not fucking paper, man. They're an interactive medium encased in hard plastic catridges (or printed on discs).
@@creativeusername7951 yes I actually do. I actually know people who have graded games as well as opened copies of them that they use to play. I also know that they’ve been collecting retro games for over 10 years. So because they own a sealed and graded copy of, let’s say Pokémon red, they are required to crack it open and play that new copy of Pokémon red even though they have a loose copy to play with? Is that what you guys are saying?
@@Ret_Chrogames
WATA victim keep in DENIAL :)
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there are people have some graded games for NOSTALGIA sake? sure, np.
but be real, these past 3 years,
DELUSIONAL SPECULATORs invest their money into ARTIFICIAL ecosystem bubble CREATED by conmen in WATA/HA, do have RESELL/PROFIT in mind.
real investors INVEST on REAL monetary INSTRUMENT (stock market/properties etc)
real game COLLECTORS collect BOXED and LOOSE game carts as VIDEO GAMES meant to be PLAYED
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heck even NON avid gamers knew that Nintendo WCS carts are WAY more valuable than SEALED GRADED Super Mario 64,
do you people have lost your CONSCIENCE? LOL
@@NickDyers ok, so essentially gatekeeping how people collect? Sure.
Like stamp collectors for example- stamps are meant to go on envelopes,
Or Pokémon card collectors- Pokémon cards are meant to be played in Pokémon card game’s and tournament… etc
Tommy for President, one time in 4th grade I had a wwf lunch box and forgot it in class for weeks and Bologna and cheese sandwiches was mold and stanky
I gotta call in sometime lol! :D
i have that exact transformers lunch box on my shelf.
As someone who has experience with money laundering... You really are making out like its a very complicated business. Its not. Think of the simplest way you would do it and I guarantee you either have it or are close. Graded games are not it!
Jeez, everyone sending questions have a podcast, keep it classy guys.
I feel like the "fps" era of gaming ended 5+ years ago, now its the... minecraft & fortnite era...? Live service era?
I picked up madden as a kid and then decided to join the football team
I always played my games on my Commodore 1702 monitor which gave sharper, crisper images then traditional TV through RF, so I actually don’t prefer CRT filters despite without them images can be “too” sharp. I’ve always kind of liked it.
EYE, EY, I.... MY Salsa..... thx guys!
Have I not been commenting this for over a year????
Original MK movie was prettty amazing to my 12 year old brain at the time.
Big BIG! Makes me lose it every time.
yes
10:20 lmao
Hell If some1 offered me a few million for a sealed mario/duck hunt I’d take it no questions
The new big genre is here already I think, mobile gacha gaming is raking in the cash monies.
I went to catholic school too pat... and my name is pat. and i like nes. i know how it be.
Best Game-to-Movie: Lara Croft Tomb Raider / Sonic.
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Worst: BloodRayne.
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I disagree with the laundering logic. Crypto was basically invented by money launderers. NFTs are just the next step.
Ignoring the mobile game boom. Don’t know about market share.
Lunch Pail ;)
Had a tin lunch box. He Man Master of the Universe
Same, mine was Battle Of The Planets
@@crtgamer2355 had a dukes of Hazzard one too
Rocket league pushing to be the big e sport. Hope they keep growing.
New Tomb Raider was good
#TomTom
Who are we kdding? You still use the Transformers lunch box Pat.
Scan lines are a good way to relieve eye strain as well. It’s personal preference but can help a lot when playing retro games through analogue signals as well as mask some of that low quality video grain/blur. If you play retro games in 1080p like NES or SNES etc, scan lines aren’t necessary unless you wish to dim the video brightness which can cause eye strain.
I had a Power Rangers lunch box when I was 7, but then Power Rangers became really uncool in my school so I covered the back of it with Football\Soccer stickers and laid it face down whenever I sat at my lunch table. I pretty much got away with it!
I disagree, The original street fighter is a classic 👍
Lol you just catching on... Ofcourse that how they laundered money....
OG Mortal Kombat is best movie.
Worst? Double Dragon movie.
Honourable mentions to Mario and DOOM for worst but just cos fail so much to adopt game in any faithful or “logical” approach.
Detective Pikachu is another pretty good video game movie. It’s really fun if you are a Pokémon fan. Not sure the consensus among non Pokémon fans.
I took my son to see it, and know very little about Pokemon. I thought it was pretty good.
My favourite video game movie detective pikachu while worst house of the dead 2 dead aim
Silent Hill is by FAR the best movie based on a video game.
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Point of Shviewter
All you complainers are a bunch of broke dudes who want items for cheap, acting entitled. Nobody owes you a cheap game, especially if they aren't produced and are left with a reseller. Complaining doesn't lower a price
Is there anything capitalism dosent ruin?
*NO* 💩🤑🙄
You don't even know what you're talking about. Maybe focus on some smaller problems.
Hmm... it doesn't ruin... capitalism, I guess? *shrug*
Why don't you move to Communist China then so you won't have to deal with capitalism.
if you think China is Communist you drank the Kool-Aid. Communism has never existed in any government. Only Socialism.
BIG BIH.
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