Hunting For Video Games In Europe Is Surprisingly Different
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Thanks for all of the love on this new video everyone! It was delightful putting this all together and it’s a treat in itself knowing you enjoyed it too 😊
Hi, as a french person who was in the US this summer, I had a similar experience. I collect Zelda merch and in Europe we have so little of it and it's super expensive, in the states I found amazing and silly stuff! It was fun hearing the excitement in your voice because that's how I felt when I found a child's book Molblin's magic spear and my family was looking at me weird so I had to tone it down :D
(Also UK is not exactly representative of Europe in some aspects, your experience may vary per country) :)
Your last point is very correct. Europe is a big place after all!
Cex and Cash Convertors are basically the same concept too. They're "second hand" shops. Charity shops rely 100% on donations where as second shops rely on trade ins. The age of dedicated gaming shops is long gone in the UK sadly. Was amazing back in the day and there are still a few dotted about but the culture has moved online mostly.
@@leighdappa not sure where you are in the UK but charity shops in London are sometimes awesome, found some ls3/4 games at ungodly low prices, some snes carts and once found the entire fullmetal alchemist manga series for £2 a book
@@leighdappa hm, for what it's worth, I've had pretty good times with cash converters. They ship nationwide and prior to buying something you can ask them to take pictures of the item to make sure it's all in good condition. I got some boxed 3ds systems from there and everything was all good, even honored my asking for extra bubble wrap incase it got damaged during shipping
I disagree about gaming shops, there's plenty of not only dedicated gaming shops, but dedicated retro-gaming shops!
Zion trying to explain cheggers warmed my heart!
Cheggers (aka keith chegwin) He was a tv actor and presenter through the 70s to 00’s in the later years presented a lot of cheesy quiz and game shows, I would imagine his name isnt known very far out of the UK
He's also famous for hosting an entirely naked TV show. He was naked, the contestants were naked! I hope the camera man and the director were naked too. British TV at it's finest!
@@Toaster05 i did not know that one!! My head went straight to its a knockout Haha
Gave naked attraction some inspiration clearly 🤣
@@gazwj I would say Google it but I'm actually quite a nice person and I don't wish that mental imagery on anyone.
@@Toaster05 yehhh thanks but no thanks not having that in my search history 🤣
Keith chegwin. If anyone has watched Ricky gervais show called “extras” then you may have seen Keith. He’s the pop knob in fanny guy 🤣
Zion, the excitement in your voice as you game hunt is contagious. It's like I am vicariously living through your experience. 👍👍😎😎😁😁
Zion, you fool! You accidentally revealed that the secrets to your bowling prowess lay in your magic bowling shoes!
I was in the UK last month and checked out CEX after watching Jon's video. I managed to find a steelbook copy of Xenoblade X for only 25 pounds. This was a ridiculous steal and I wasn't expecting to find games so cheap there. Definitely will play that, it was one of my most wanted games before the wii u eshop shuts down.
I live in Belgium and my father's coworker randomly gave me a steelbook version of Xenoblade Chronicles X, Rayman Legends, Project Zero and a Wii U console despite the fact I already owed one
Cex is wild as you will either get decent prices or stuff still expensive but not Quite at scalper prices
Or you can get RE4 on Wii for 50 entire penny’s
HOW
@@Victini7472 I guess I got lucky. it was 2019 so maybe RE4 wasn’t as wanted back then?
Zion! Let me give you one hell of a tip when it comes to PAL GameCube games. Most PAL GameCube game do have a PAL 60Hz option on them, it's just that to enable this you need to press and hold the B button as the game boots up, just as you do if you wanted to launch games in progress scan mode on NTSC models. It'll show a menu to select 50hz, 60hz, or perform a test to see if your TV can do it. You'll need to do this on a CRT so that you can at least see the scan, it'll wrap around and around, but once you fix it, you should be able to get the 60hz mode to run. The catch being is that it's PAL 60hz and no NTSC 60hz, so there might be colour problems and more incompatibility issues. It's just that if you don't do the B button thing, you'll be stuck with 50hz. The only other thing I could suggest is buying a TV from a military base, they typically has TVs that will work on multiple signal types because they expect that soldiers might be stationed abroad in a country where TVs might work differently. So if you know a friend or a family member in the army or navy, they might be able to order a TV that supports NTSC and PAL out of the box.
This is why I want GameCube switch online way too much work to get them working and the games are way too expensive these days
@@brandonscott3423 Dolphin emulator is free
@@epic6178 Bro, how many times people need to say this about emulation. Companies hold licenses back because of emulation it hurts the ability for Nintendo and other companies to release certain games legally if you keep pirating them, you think Square is gonna want to license Mario RPG for the NSO if people are willing to just pirate the damn game?
@@raptros But he owns the physical game... he can just create an ISO of his physical game from his disc and play the game on dolphin completely legally, no piracy at all.
Emulation is not piracy.
And besides... your argument is kind of backwards, people WILL pirate certain games as long as they are not available, if square would like to avoid people pirating their games as much as possible, the best thing they can do is sell their games, not selling them doesn't solve anything, just makes the problem worse. People want to buy old games, retrogaming is a huge market, new ports constantly comming out. For most consumers piracy is the last option, it is just a lot harder to do, as easy as it might seem to some, setting up an emulator with a comfortable controller set up, finding the roms, etc is hard for most people. Something they are willing to do only if they really really want to play the game or if they are already acquainted with tech and emulation. I don't blame emulation for the awful practices of a lot of companies regarding their legacy content. They want to create artificial scarcity and emulation at worst is a small fight against that. Not to mention a huge fight for preservation.
As somebody who has a terminal case of “British”, this was such a wild video to watch for me.
All of these shops are so common place around the UK, and when you’re that used to something, you take it for granted, or at least I do. I often find myself frustrated by CEX’s pricing, or pretty unfazed by charity shop finds, but being able to see an outsider perspective really makes me appreciate these things more.
Also, I never thought in my wildest dreams I’d hear somebody so much as mention castleween, let alone have a designated segment on it. I feel heard!
~Rawk
I went to Spain in summer of '04 on a family trip. Nintendo was doing this summer tour thing were they had booths on the major towns, showcasing the Gameboy Advance limited editions (Tattoo version is what I recall), and the latest games. Everywhere you look there seem to be Gameboy Advance stuff. I got Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, and Metroid Zero Mission. As a young teenager I didn't even know about region lock but, looking back I'm glad I got games for a region free console.
It's funny how from a North America perspective CeX can be seen as a potential bargain hunters dream. Being from UK myself I see them as rip off merchants. The sticker prices in my local store would make an onion cry!
I think they are great on prices for the most part
They seem to price things up that are more popular etc so there are definitely games that are overpriced, but for the most part I find their stuff fair and better than most other places
I don’t think they are bad at all, especially give you have the benefits of being able to check the product in person. They do inflate the price of more recent stuff sometimes, but for retro games they are usually pretty fair, and sometimes a bit of a bargain compared to other places to buy.
@@Zveebo it seems to vary wildly from store to store. My local has some crazy pricing going on at times but it's a small town store, I'd expect London prices to maybe be more competitive due to competition.
The only things I've seen at Cex that I think are overpriced are GameCube games. TTYD costs £120 now.
@@Toaster05 The prices at CEX are done by an external pricing team the whole company follows. All stores use the same EPOS system and should have the same prices unless they havent updated the price labels.
I love how you talked about CeX like it was some crazy obscure place that nobody had heard of 😂 I shop there regularly! It’s true that a lot of games are cheaper here, but Etrian Odyssey V or the SMT games on 3DS are all ludicrously expensive 😢
Loved this, Zion. 😀
Had to smile at mention of Kira Kira Pop Princess! 😎
Love the extra effort that went into the editing, entertaining as always!
Awesome Video, but as a former collector from Germany, I can say that you shouldn't mix up UK with other European countries. Games there cost a friction of what they cost f.ex. in Austria or Germany. Which is why I also had a chunk of games from there.
Also due to various censorship rules, it's sometimes better to get your game from abroad. On a classtrip to London 2009, first thing I did was buying Mad World which never released in Germany due to the adult rating.
14:15 Wow, what a fail not calling it "Wii Wish You a Merry Christmas" what were they thinking
Amazing vid as usual Zion! I really love how your content has really developed over your time at Nintendo Life and how you have your own unique Vids on the channel. This vid brings back such good memories of my time living in the UK and visiting CEX! Such fun. Also during those 2 years I found this little shop in London that sold new gaming gear but if you went downstairs there was a basement full of retro games. I always got so excited to go visit the store and pick up goodies from there. Keep up the amazing content!
It's so wild, the differences in trivial things like this across different countries. The internet's growth has changed so much to get us all on the same page.
These type of videos from Zion hit different, keep it up!!
Such a fun and happy video. I’m so glad you three had such a good time!
This video is so delightful! I tend to enjoy the stuff Nintendo Life puts out but this one feels a bit more personal than usual and it is such a joyful watch. Loved seeing Zion meet his co workers for the first time.
Learning that the 3ds is so popular that The Louvre has a guided tour specifically for it blows my mind.
Great video! Love the enthusiasm in your voiceover.
10:45 Actually, while a vast majority of DS games are region free and can be played on any DS or 3DS system regardless of the region, games that utilize the DSi's hardware in some way (ie: camera or WPA/WPA2 internet connections) are semi-region locked and can only be played either on the correct region's DSi/3DS systems or an original DS/DS Lite from any region. It's a very small number games that do this (the only games I'm aware that are this way are DSi exclusive games and the Gen 5 DS Pokemon games), but it's something to keep in mind if you find one of those games.
That said, yeah. The prices for older games here in the US is absolutely ridiculous, so I'm pretty surprised to see such cheap prices in other regions for some games even with conversion being considered.
You are the “actually” meme lol
I really feel as though in the US people artificially inflate the prices to make them seem more valuable, causing people to pay more for them, and so on. Some games really are valuable, but most are not worth anywhere near market value over there.
This video justify the joys of being a gamer these days. Also its cook you got an amazing experience in europe with the NL crew and even hangout with Jon and Felix. Watching this video around 8 AM is the best way to start my sunday. ✌️
Man, you guys make video game collecting look so fun. If I had the money I would most certainly look to start buying some games myself.
That was an amazing trip montage. Thanks for sharing Zion.
Such a cool and joyful video. I initially skipped it but now I'm really happy I cane back to check it out
I'm late to this video, but thanks for putting it together! I'm so glad to see you guys finally meet :)
Thanks fr the vid! I have my own channel and am heading to Prague in a few weeks as part of a study abroad program. Looking forward to seeing what video games I’ll find in the Czech Republic
This is an awesome adventure. Thanks for sharing this journey
Your PAL GameCube journey was wonderful lol. I LOVE the dedication! Good on you!
This video is so lush. Such cosy wholesome vibes.
Great video that makes me want to travel to Europe game hunting! I visited Iceland a couple of years ago but never even considered looking for video games,
Great video! Thanks!
Cheggers is the nickname of Keith Chegwin - a popular radio and TV show host over here in the 80s and 90s. I think he passed away a few years ago now.
I live in Paris and last year I went to the Louvre shop to find the 3DS game. They were almost out of stock, so I managed to get one of the last copies.
I love that Nintendo Life allow you you to collaborate with Jon/Good Vibes Gaming!
I’m an American living in Germany. It’s been fun collecting European stuff. Europe gets some cool exclusive special editions too.
Are we not gonna talk about how smooth that Wii paper disk throw was
I'm SO GLAD this video was just published. I'm traveling to the UK in October and I definitely want to do a bit of game hunting while in the area to get some games you cannot find in the US.
This video was so much fun! I definitely want to go game hunting in different countries!
Gotta love the John plugging in this episode
Level 1 during handholding tutorial: "it's not that easy to just hop across the pond"
one minute later:
Level 99 during open world exploration: "before you know it, we hopped on a plane, and hopped on another plane..."
Great character progression there.
When I went to London, I got Superhot VR and Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty which were exclusive physically in Europe and of course got the game in the Louvre on my trip in Paris, also found Animal Crossing for the Wii in a thrift store for cheap which I now regret buying and couldn't find inFamous First Light so I just bought it on Ebay, overall I loved my trip in Europe and thankfully went two months before lockdown in 2020
When did you get the louvre game cuz I went like a month ago and it was gone
@@SquidStuff Got mine January of 2020, have a bad feeling they won't make anymore since the 3DS is slowly discontinuing unfortunately :(
I always thought the Wii Points boxes were custom display boxes made by game shops to make the Wii Points cards stand out. I didn’t think they would actually sell those display boxes and I definitely didn’t know these boxes weren’t display boxes at all, but a real thing by Nintendo!
Cool video, Zion! Enjoyed it. :)
im actually on a trip to amsterdam rn and london later. video came out at a good time
This is such a fun video to watch
Aww, I'm glad you got to meet everyone in person!
And the prices shocked me. So low!
Would love to see more Nintendo Life x GVG collabs. Looks like a fun trip.
It's such a great attitude for them all to have, they could pretend Jon was never there. But leaning into it and promoting GVG is awesome
"Cheggers" is Keith Chewin a quirky ( to say the least) TV present from the 80s 90s.
He also did a programme called "Naked Jungle" back in the 90s where he and the contestants were all fully naked throughout the physical "action" gameshow. 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
Thanks for bringing that back to the front of my mind 😭😭😭😭
Interesting to see your experience browsing European games 😊 One big asterisk is needed though. You kind of had the luck of buying your games in the UK and thus the games will be in English. But if you buy across the mainland of Europe, you need to watch out for regional versions with no English whatsoever! As a Belgian from the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, I bought Black & White back in the day from a bargain bin in the Dutch speaking part, but the game on the disc turned out to be in French … It was luckily a PC game and they released the English language as a patch, but you will be out of luck with other games and especially with console games.
Game hunting in Europe actually differs wildly in each country, France and the UK are very different from let's say Belgium or Germany. A major hassle Europeans have to deal with as well is the language barrier as some games are dubbed in the native language of the country it's being sold at without having the option to change languages. I live in Belgium, more specifically the Flanders region and I have to deal with French versions of games constantly...
So true, as a Belgian, I resorted to just hunt for UK copies. But whenever I find something cool, it’s always some french (irl) or Italian (online) copy
I agree, every country has it's own market. Some prices can vary between regions and game tastes are slightly different (so some games can be more or less obscure). Many of the prices seen in the video are better than what you would pay in a shop here in Belgium.
In Luxembourg it‘s the worst actually. If you find games with only one language, it differs from every shop. Some have them in German, some in French and some in English. Sometimes dutch is also packed in either the german or french Versions. I mean, I don‘t care about them games not being Luxembourgish, I don‘t like that language anyway.
@@ct4547 I think we are both 'crossroad countries' so it is not really that surprising. :) At least most games are multi language these days. It doesn't really affect gameplay. And sometimes I am happy to buy a german, Italian or French version just because it is a few euros cheaper. In a way it is also charming that I have game boxes in all the possible languages.
@@ct4547 As a kid I lived nea Luxemburg and I experienced this exact same thing with Pokémon cards. still have a few german ones
Cheggers is a man called Keith Chegwin who was a quiz show host/television personality sadly passed away in about 2017
We also have quite a few Cex shops in Portugal, too. I have been selling old games of mine for the voucher price to buy new games I haven't played. It's a great way to be always playing new stuff if you cannot afford to be buying all the new games and keeping the old ones. I never had problems with the quality of the product, neither do the shops "smell".
Love the Echoes music used in the middle of the video
Looks like a fun trip. I just came back from a trip to Ireland and never even thought to look in 2nd hand video game shops while I was there for potentially interesting finds. Next time I suppose!
Man, I would love to go to Europe. I had a trip planned literally the month the pandemic started :(
We had to cancel
This past June my friends took me to retro game store and I have never been to one before and I was like a kid in a candy store. I got Spyro the Dragon, the entire MGS series, the entire Killzone series, and a whole bunch of backwards compatible games for the Xbox one and a couple complete N64 and GameCube games
9:03 I've never seen a HDMI cable with so much character. Hey there little buddy! Hunting for HDMI-ins?
I know you made a video on it before, but I still love that joja cup.
The sheer warmth and excitement in this video put a smile on my face
Not a video game, but at Epcot in Disney World, I found a Kirby Otamatone for like 15 dollars in their Japanese themed store. I think they had video games there too, which was crazy to see at Disney World of all places.
Great video!
Almost every time he says "europe", he means UK (except regionlock). If you go to different country, your experience will likely be very different.
Great Video Zion. Nice to see Jon.
Larry Bundy Jr. A.K.A. Guru Larry did a video on Cheggers Party Quiz.
I remember finding a PS3 Saint Seiya game while I was in an airport in Mallorca.
Also yes!!! Rhythm Thief music!
I live in the UK so I never ever got to play Mario Super Sluggers despite really looking forward to it. Couple years ago I visited my friends in Canada and spent the week tracking it down. It was so worth it!
Also a Canadian store had a PAL PS2 which he let me have for cheap and upon bringing it home, turns out it was region chipped and could now play all my imported PS2 games. It's like a treasure hunt!
Seeing this really made me think how used games sales are different everywhere around Europe. I live in Finland myself, and I have noticed that many of the games that are super expensive in US or UK, can be found relatively cheap here. For example, I read that Dragon Quest IX can be over hundred dollars or punds, but here I was able to find one for 40€. And there was not even a huge demand for it.
Or course, there is less demand for these games and therefore way less supply as well, but trying to find out of print games from DS/Wii -generation onwards can fun and sometimes surprising. Older games tend to be more rare and have carts only as preservation of cardborad boxes and paper booklets weren't exactly a priority for people before retro gaming became cool.
So i was in the UK in May and I went ham at CEX. Every town/city i went to if there was a CEX i’ll have gone there at least once to check out the DVDs and 3DS games. I even bought a red DS lite to play DS and gameboy games since i never had one as a kid. The best part was in London where when the CEX employees found out i’m from overseas they all asked if i’ve had a chance to ride the Elizabeth Line since it just opened when i was there.
Am just looking that the title and like I don’t maybe. Now hunting down anime is a nightmare.
I'm in the UK but used to travel to Greece a lot for holidays as a kid. I remember when Pokemon Silver came out my brother and I both bought a copy each at the airport and basically spent the whole holiday glued to our Gameboys. Another trip I bought the Pocket Pikachu at a neat game shop in a Greek town. Good memories.
14:26 Dunkey's video on games' box art features this game.
Flabbergasted to see CEXs so well stocked with pre gen 8 games.
You guys went past my area a few times I wish I could have seen you guys.
I wish retro game hunting was that easy in Australia. We have the same kinds of shops, but CeX only goes back as far as PS2, GCN & Xbox & our Cash Converters & hock shops charge like wounded bulls for anything older than Xbox 360 & PS3.
I went to a cex in Bologna when I visited Italy and got some pretty cool games !
That's interesting i'm in the PAL region, and back in the day i bought the Zoids Vs. games, arguably the games i spent the most time on specially Vs. III, even more than smash melee, they were Japanese imports, so i used a free loader disk, it was a standalone free loader without the action replay part and the game ran without a hitch.
My guess is that this was because for a while our TVs were stuck in 50hz and later they started selling TVs that supported both settings and at the time the cube came out TVs that supported both 50hz and 60hz setting became the main thing, i suppose in the US TVs only supported 60hz through out, so that is makes quite the hurdle if you import from the PAL region to the US.
That leads me to a small curiosity though, the Genesis is not region locked however it will change the settings of the game automatically depending on the region, my Genesis copy of Sonic 2 runs as if it was a pal game, what would happen if you booted a pal version of Sonic the hedgehog 1 on a US Genesis?
this is so funny seeing you in CEX such a common store, I'm always shocked how expensive gamecube games are now, even crap ones!
Back in 2016, I spent ages saving up £50 to buy Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door from Cex. A few months ago, I bought Star Fox: Assault for the same price at Cex on a whim because I'd wanted to get it for a while and finally had the chance. Being an adult with money is great.
Metal Jesus Rocks would be proud of your game hunting vlog
i'm crying at keith "cheggers" chegwin, a man most famous for doing naked interviews on late night tv, having a shovelware wii game and that being your jewel in the crown
Cheggers is Keith Chegwin, he was a presenter in the Uk, he died unfortunatley .. bit of a legend
Funny thing about the points card: as Wii Sports came as a bare disc with the Wii here, me and my friends that had a Wii all bought a points card for like 5 or 10 euros, and printed the cover from a picture on the internet.
Also Cheggers must be big in Britain, because here in the Netherlands I've never seen or heard anything about it lol
Hold onto B on startup to get the option to switch to 60Hz.
you should definetly visit finland, i live in tampere and i loveeee our local videogame store puolenkuunpelit. Also the flea markets around finland are sooo good
In a local "pawn shop" in the Netherlands I actually found a legit copy of the legends of Zelda links awakening for the Gameboy colour for only 5 bucks a few years ago. Such a steal.
Felix is a lot taller in normal context than I expected. In his videos he looks like a little boy.
Hahahaha I've gotten that a lot. No idea why I look small, but it's always fun to see the face of people when they see me in person xD
Gotta love the Ace Attorney music, also played it at the perfect time for the video lol.
The hanging out with Jon is 😭
I’m from Europe PAL-region. I have never bought a game in the us due to the region lock issue. However when I was younger my nes and snes had a converter. My best overseas buy was from shopping at yodobashi in Japan.
I never wanted to go to Europe more than Now
Yeah! Pretty interesting!
I’ll be headed to London next month for vacation so maybe I’ll do some browsing especially for DS since that’s not as region locked as other consoles
I live in Sweden and most physical stores for video games are out of business here. Occasionally I'll stumble on one, but even so prices are ridiculous. There are a couple that always show up on our version of comic con, but it's not even fun to browse their selection because of the prices. But I did go to the UK back in 2019. I went to MCM Comic Con in Birmingham and walking past the video game stalls there were an absolute delight. I got complete in box copies of Pokemon Ruby, Pokemon Platinum, GBA version of Link to the past and Yu-Gi-Oh Duelist of the Roses for PS2 (but no manual for that one) for a total of 115 GBP. That wouldn't even pay for Platinum alone in Sweden. Looking at Swedish "eBay" right now (3 years later, but prices haven't gone up that much as far as I know), I'd have to pay the equivalent of over 300 GBP for those same games, not including shipping. Also went to a CEX in London where I stayed. Didn't buy any games there, but did buy a Complete in box Playstation Vita for 85 GBP. Best I could find in Sweden for a boxed one is 200+ GBP and a loose one sells for around 130-150.
Enjoyed the video. I'd like to see this video but through the perspective of Alex who lives in the UK and has firsthand everyday experience of the UK market.
I live in the UK but stopped going into game stores over the last several years and buy either direct from Nintendo online or Amazon so I've lost all my knowledge of the second hand market..it'd be useful.
Sidenote, Keith Chegwin hosted numerous primetime family shows over the 90s..
That said I'm still baffled that game exists..
Man I wish all the CEX stores I have visited had anything somewhat interesting. The local ones never seem to have anything new and the ones further afield seem to have nothing unique in them.
Went into one the other day and the had a Wavebird AND a Gameboy Player WITH disc.
Of course they were being sold for £70 and £120 but it was cool to see. Wish I had that kind of money.
That bowling trophy is called The Alex Olney Memorial Cup and I fully expect Harry to defend it 24/7 against anyone on NL staff who challenges him.
Wow never thought I'd hear Cash Converters mentioned in a Nintendo Life video. They're from my hometown in Australia ❤️