35:00 – “I’m glad that there are people grading video games because they’re doing history a favour.”
This is shameful. I don’t know who this guy is, by the way. He appeared earlier in the video but I don’t know him. But no, people who grade video games are not doing anything. This is completely inconsequential. When I go to the museum, I don’t see baseball cards and Elvis commemorative plates. This is not history that’s particularly worth preserving in this fashion. We certainly don’t need thousands of sealed copies of Super Mario Bros 2. There aren’t enough museums in the world for keeping this shit and it’s of limited historical value.
How many books do you even see in museums? It’s boring as fuck. Who wants to look at an old book? You obviously can’t flip through it. It’s just open to one page in a display cabinet. You can look at the nice handwriting (because if a book is old enough to be displayed in a museum it probably pre-dates the printing press) and then you move on.
But there must be loads of books that are are of historical significance. Maybe this all-American hero Deniz Kahn or whatever should start “preserving” those. For free. Because this guy who was talking was kind of suggesting that this is an altruistic act.
35:30 – Now we get Deniz Kahn openly promoting his company.
By the way, Deniz Kahn is not a big fat guy with a beard. So we know what that means. FAKE GAMER! This is all just a money-making endevour for him.
They’re showing footage of these sealed games behind a glass display case, like in a museum. And it just dawned on me how preposterous this would be. Who the fuck would go to a museum to see BOXES?
38:15 – Some complete lunatic in front of shelves of games. He says that he has $20 million worth of sealed games. He promotes Deniz Kahn’s company. This is fucking shameless. This is just an ad for the guy’s company.
Then this guy starts shitting on VGA, which is another company who grades video games. It’s unbelievable.
43:00 – This guy goes on and on about how people are jealous of him. What the fuck? How sensitive is this guy? This is playground behaviour. Nobody cares about your fucking game collection. Nobody says, “Oh, I wish that I had an alleged $20 million worth of boxes.” You do your thing and if you’re confident in yourself, you won’t give a shit what other people have to say. Even if they are saying these things, which they aren’t.
By the way, this guy is in a cavernous room, sitting behind a huge table, and there’s a huge painting behind him like he’s some mafia don. He’s a dentist. He’s a dentist with a small penis so he’s buying all of this extravagant shit to make himself feel better about himself. No. You’re still a giant nerd who women aren’t interested in. No amount of boxes will overcome that.
44:30 – Now some other nerd is confirming what this dentist nerd had to say about jealousy. Yes, you fucking faggots. We’re all deeply jealous at your VIDEO GAME collection. That’s right. I wish that I had that pussy repellant in my home.
You look at Justin Silverman, for example, and he had that Gengar collection. He made a video on it. And I thought, “Well, that’s kind of cool. He has some interesting stuff here. It’s nice that he has a hobby.”
Not once did I think, “Oh, I wish I had a Gengar collection. I’m so jealous of Justin Silverman and his Gengar collection.”
It’s completely delusional. NOBODY is jealous of these giant fucking sexless nerds. If you want to spend money on video games, feel free. Is this a bad investment? I don’t know and I don’t care. You do your own thing. I don’t give a shit.
45:30 – Fedora Faggot is talking about Deniz Kahn getting death threats. WHAT IS THIS ABOUT? WHY IS THIS IN THE “DOCUMENTARY”? It’s totally irrelevant. Why is there this hyperfocus on on Deniz Kahn’s business? THIS IS AN ADVERTISEMENT. And now we’re supposed to see Deniz Kahn as some persecuted Christ-like figure.
Then Fedora Faggot starts talking about his long “relationship” with Deniz Kahn. Uh huh. I’ll bet. And what a great guy Deniz Kahn and how he’s a true collector.
WHO CARES? WHY IS ALL OF THIS IN HERE? THIS IS NOT THE DENIZ KAHN STORY!
46:45 – Now we get to hear from our Lord and Saviour Deniz Kahn some more. He’s showing some Disney art that he got. What the fuck is this? What does this have to do with…this is supposed to be about collecting retro video games, right? Not The Life and Times of Deniz Kahn.
46:45 – Now Deniz Kahn is showing some “standees” (large cardboard cutouts). It’s Goro from Mortal Kombat wearing an uncomfortably small thong. And a plastic statue of Mario is pointing at Goro’s genitals. What the fuck? Does anybody really need to see this particular part of this man’s collection? Maybe Fedora Faggot would be interested in this but I’m not.
52:30 – Now we’re on Level 3. Like in video games, you know. “The Rarest Console in the World”.
Oh, I’m on tenterhooks over here.
52:45 – Donny Fillerup. Uh huh. He’s from the Netherlands. And you know that he’s from the Netherlands because they have fruity music playing and stock footage of canals and people on bicycles.
God. Fuck off, Edward Whoever, who “directed” this piece of shit. Enough with the casual racism. People are not stereotypes. Your identity is more than the place that you were born or the place where you live. People from the Netherlands have a wide range of behaviours and beliefs, just like people from the US do. They’re not all jacking each other off in romantic canal trips.
When JOHN RIGGS was introduced, where was the stock footage of cowboys and 1920s gangsters? John Riggs is an American, right? That means that he’s a cowboy and/or a 1920s gangster. Show us via stock footage. We need to know what to expect when John Riggs talks. He’s going to be talking about his love of wrangling cattle in his thick American drawl. “Yes, ma’am I reckon I do enjoy ya’ll purple-haired ladies.” That’s totally John Riggs. He’s an American after all, isn’t he?
By the way, Donny Fillerup is quite possibly the fattest man in the Netherlands but probably only average-sized when compared to the rest of the people in this video.
53:15 – I could swear that this guy was talking about a “condom controller” but maybe he said Gundam.
They’re playing weird, staticky tecno music throughout this. You know, because he’s from the Netherlands. They love staticky techno music over there.
58:30 – Now we’re on Level 4. So Level 3 was a short level. Who designed this game? It was just this Dutch guy talking about his console collection. It was interesting enough but it seems out of place.
So Level 4 is “The Anti-Nintendo Game”. Whatever that means. Non-kid-friendly, I guess. Maybe John Riggs is going to talk about his hentai game collection.
58:45 – John Hancock is talking about his childhood in rural California. But…the story is just about renting video games. I don’t care. Why did he introduce rural California? I was expecting a story about…you know…life in rural California.
59:45 – John Riggs. He’s talking about going to the video game rental store even when he didn’t have money, just to look at the games. Why his parents didn’t take him to see a therapist, I have no idea. But this is what happens when you neglect your child’s mental health needs. You end up with John Riggs.
By the way, I think that they’re showing footage of a game that John Riggs made. So…it’s an ad for his game.
1:01:45 – Finally, we see this amazing director again, Edward Payson. I’d recognise that hair anywhere.
1:06:45 – By the way, this Frank Zappa impersonator gets my award for the least annoying person in the video. For whatever that’s worth. He’s also the only person in this thing to denounce graded video games.
1:07:21 – What the fuck? If you’re jerking off to this video, time yourself to here. Inexplicably, there’s public domain footage of two Slavic strippers. This is in reference to some guy talking about how people were trying to make “adult” games for the NES. But…what do the strippers add to this? It doesn’t help illustrate anything. This is just gratuitous.
And then immediately after that, this guy is talking about companies wanting to sell Christian games so there’s public domain footage of a family eating dinner. Somehow this indicates that they’re Christian? Maybe they were praying. It only flashed on screen for a second.
1:07:30 – Fedora Fag holding a copy of Bible Adventures. Leviticus 18:22, my friend.
Hallelujah is playing. Thanks for really plumbing the depths of theological music. This guy is clearly a scholar on the subject.
1:09:45 – Deniz Kahn again. Eugh. Fuck this guy. I understand why people hate him.
He finds the word “dongle” funny. It seems that he’s never encountered the word before and thinks that it’s unique to these games that he’s showing. No, you moron. It’s common in high end commercial software.
He just thought it was funny because of “dong”. He was thinking about Fedora Fag’s dong.
1:14:15 – This Swedish woman again. She’s talking about erotic video games. Uh huh. Tell me more.
Actually, for the past five minutes, that’s been the topic. Porn games and that retarded Chiller game. Not interested when fat, bearded gay men were talking about this shit, but suddenly my interest is piqued.
1:16:30 – This Swedish woman is talking about a game called Softporn Adventure, which was apparently the prequel (of sorts) to Leisure Suit Larry. She points out that Roberta Williams is on the cover and she made the game. Let me look this up.
Oh, it’s a text-only adventure game and the first Leisure Suit Larry does seem to be based on this game.
Is Roberta Williams really on the cover in this hot tub though? Holy shit, she is. I learned something then.
Then this woman goes on to say that Roberta Williams also made “Knight’s Quest”. It’s just an interpretation error from this woman, presumably.
I had a deck of playing cards from Sweden as a kid and the jacks were called knights. Instead of a “J”, there was a “K”. How crazy is that? Playing card differences. Wild stuff. Makes more sense, though. What the fuck is a jack?
1:18:00 – Level 5. This better be it.
1:21:15 – This guy is basically saying that his hoarding of video games prevents him from getting a girlfriend. Or probably in his case a boyfriend.
1:21:45 – Deniz Kahn talking about his family in Turkey, presumably. “It’s a cultural thing, like I said. It’s very American to collect stuff.”
This guy doesn’t have a fucking clue. And in this very video, they showed a Swedish woman and a Dutch man showing off their collections.
But this fucking imbecile keeps insisting that obsessive consumerism is unique to America. And he’s presenting it as a POSITIVE thing.
He says that his relatives in Turkey don’t understand this guy’s hoarding because it’s not part of Turkish culture. I don’t even know where to begin with this. He’s a fucking moron. Let’s move on.
1:22:15 – Now “Kid” Shoryuken is talking about how collecting video games is kind of “taboo” in Japan. He gives examples of people who are obsessed with manga, for example, so they have extensive manga collections.
Please explain how this disdain for giant nerds is in any way unique to Japan. IT’S UNIVERSAL!
1:24:30 – Super Video Gamer Gal aka Super Retro Gal aka Super Awkward Gal. She says that she met her husband two weeks after she bought a Nintendo 64. What’s the relevance?
She says that for her marriage, she walked down the aisle to a Legend of Zelda song. And she says this without even a hint of embarrassment or regret.
There was also a Nintendo 64 at her wedding, which was in like 2015, I assume. Maybe later. They met in 2014. I don’t think she gives the date of the wedding. And there are pictures of her and her husband holding N64 controllers at their wedding. How fucking humiliating is this?
How awkward must it have been for the people who attended the wedding? You go to a wedding and you expect a certain level of decorum. These fucking morons have a Nintendo 64-themed wedding. They’re playing Donkey Kong Country music at the wedding. And I don’t just mean the reception, which would be bad enough, but I mean during the actual wedding.
1:25:30 – Now she’s showing her husband’s Mario Underoos from when he was a child. What the fuck? Are you kidding me? Vintage skidmarks?
She says that she loves them. Direct quote. “I love them.”
When she found them in a box of her husband’s old shit, she said, “We’re putting these on the wall.”
What? WHO HANGS UNDERWEAR ON THEIR WALL? And these are CHILDREN’S underwear. Not that it even makes a difference. I can’t think of ANY underwear that’s suitable to be displayed on a wall.
Imagine going to somebody’s house and seeing a pair of children’s underpants on the wall. You would jump from the nearest window to get out of that place. These people are obviously lunatics and they’re going to torture you if you stay any longer. This is John Wayne Gacy shit.
1:25:45 – “We’re really not too sure where these came from.”
FROM YOUR HUSBAND’S ASS! AS AN EIGHT YEAR OLD! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
By the way, speaking of John Wayne Gacy, this is a woman who killed her husband’s grandfather to inherit his house. I documented all of this. Here’s a particularly egregious video that she made when this poor man was still alive.
He had dementia or something. One morning he fell and was disorientated. So Super Awkward Gal said, “Oopsie. Up you go, Pops” and then went to work, leaving this man with severe dementia alone all day. When she came home, he fell again. He probably fell numerous times during the day. So they took him to the hospital and it turned out that he had a stroke or a heart attack. Probably multiple strokes and/or heart attacks.
I talk about this here:
She HATED that man. You saw it in every video. Hated him. Resented him. She was unable to work because she had to take care of him. But then one day she just said, “Fuck it. I’m going back to work. You’re on your own, Pops.” And he died shortly after.
Absolutely hated that man. I’ve never seen something so evil. She would take videos with that man and the contempt was obvious. In that first article I link to, she’s shown PUTTING HIM IN THE BATHTUB. Right there on fucking Youtube. How undignified. Do you think Pops wanted his bathtime activities to be on fucking Youtube?
Well, they got his house now so mission accomplished.
1:26:15 – Super Awkward Gal is still holding these children’s underpants and she says, “Everybody is always like, ‘Oh, that’s gross’ but you wash underwear and you wear it all the time.”
Yeah. You wear it. You don’t display it on your fucking wall. What is wrong with this lunatic?
People are telling her, “Hey. Take the fucking underwear down from the wall. It’s making me uncomfortable” and she still doesn’t get it.
Are these even worth anything? Let me check Ebay. I do not want to know who’s selling used children’s underpants.
I’m not really seeing anything similar and frankly, I don’t want to look any more.
1:26:30 – “If my husband one day walked away from the retro video game world, I would be so excited because I would get all of these video games.”
What? How does that follow? Same way that she got the house from Pops, I guess. Is she suggesting that she’s going to kill her husband too?
What a bizarre comment. Why would she assume that she would get all of his games? It doesn’t make sense. They’re his games. If he’s not longer interested in them, he would sell them, surely. He wouldn’t just say, “I’m not interested in this shit any more. Here, you take this collection that’s worth thousands of dollars.”
And her response is all about her. What she would get if her husband stopped collecting.
Why is this even a question? What would she do if her husband stopped collecting? Who asked this question? I suspect that she did.
Oh my god. Then she says that she would divorce her husband if he stopped being interested in video games. Not even joking. I have to get the quote now because people won’t believe me otherwise.
“If he walked away from it and said, ‘I don’t want to see a retro video game for the rest of my life’, we would probably have a bigger issue than just our collection because there’s no way I think I could be with somebody who could not be into video games or support somebody who likes something. It’s a big thing to be supportive of each other and have those connections with something.”
Unbelieveable. This is straight up psycopath behaviour. No empathy for other people. It’s all about her.
She talks about being supportive of each other but she’s just talking about him being supportive of her. Because she made it clear that he’s out the door if he ever loses interest in video games. Forget about all of these other shared interested and experiences and whatever that they presumably have. Video games is it. I don’t care about all of the time that we’ve spent together, the connections we’ve made, or you as a human being. If you don’t like video games, it’s over and I’m going to get Pops’ house in the divorce.
It’s fucking digusting. And she submitted this video. She thinks that these are appropriate comments.
1:27:15 – So now there’s some other psychopath talking about how his wife had cancer. Unfortunately, it’s not Super Awkard Gal’s husband speaking. So he says that he needed something to distract himself from his wife having cancer.
Un-fucking-believable. He’s actually going to tell a story about how he sunk all of his money into video games after his wife’s CANCER DIAGNOSIS. You know, instead of maybe saving it for the inevitable MEDICAL BILLS.
“I needed something to distract myself from that part of my life and wanting to get into something new.”
I’m completely speechless. His wife gets diagnosed with cancer. So what’s his response? “Well, out with the old (my cancer-ridden wife), in with the new (video games).”
This guy saw nothing wrong with any of this. He released this video. And there are pictures shown throughout this of this guy’s wife, bald from chemotherapy, and their daughter. Fuck those people. I want to play some Wario’s Woods now.
“So I basically started liquidating my toys and comics and started funneling, it en masse, into a video game collection.”
And there’s footage of this man’s daughter, whose mother is near death, toddling along and putting video games into a bag. This guy sold his toy collection over this. Toys that this girl probably enjoyed and played with. So first she loses her toys, then she loses her mother. And this was all orchestrated. This guy is in a “documentary” BOASTING about this. Boasting about how he sold his comic book and toy collection to buy VIDEO GAMES right after his wife was diagnosed with CANCER.
This guy really needs to get with Super Awkward Gal after Super Awkward Gal kills her husband. This is a couple who were made for each other.
Then he says that his wife died and he was her primary caretaker, “For that entire journey, which was about four years.”
It’s the same fucking disdain and resentment that Super Awkard Gal would give when talking about her husband’s grandfather. What a burden it is to have to care for somebody. IT’S YOUR WIFE, YOU FAGGOT.
“When she was diagnosed terminal, which means no chance of ultimate survival, she wouldn’t be able to be cured at that point, then her life insurance policy unexpectedly paid out.”
AND HE’S LAUGHING AT THIS! His eyes lit up when he mentioned the life insurance. I can’t fucking believe this. Have the police been shown this video? It seems like this guy should be prosecuted for something. Check under the floorboards of this guy’s home.
Oh my…what? I have to back up and quote this too.
1:28:00 – He’s talking about what he did with the money. “So we did lots of responsible, adult things with most of that money but then afterwards, she had some left over and she came to me and she said, ‘Hey, you stuck through me with this, and you took care of me, and I love you. I’d love to do something for you. What do you want? This was the copy of Stadium Events that my wife bought me.”
Unbelieveable. This guy thinks that he deserves a reward for taking care of his WIFE.
My girlfriend comes to me and says, “I have cancer. It’s terminal. I don’t have long to live. But I appreciate you sticking with me and taking care of me. What can I do for you? What do you want?”
I’d tell her that what I want is to spend as much time as possible with her. I’d tell her not worry about how I took care of her. I’d tell her that I was happy to take care of her.
You know what I wouldn’t say? “Well, I could use a Stadium Events.”
It’s unbelievable. This guy’s wife, the mother of his child, is dying from cancer, and while she’s still alive, he’s spending TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS on a VIDEO GAME.
This is so beyond deplorable that I don’t even know what to say. And this is being presented as a positive thing?
Maybe put that money away FOR YOUR DAUGHTER. No, I’m going to get Stadium Events.
Then he says that it’s his favourite “piece” but not because of the monetary value, but because of the sentimental value. Oh my fucking god. This guy is insane.
And he only started collecting like four years earlier. After his wife’s cancer diagnosis. But now he’s all about video games.
And he’s showing this game in his room that’s full of shelves of games. Shelves of games that he purchased within the past five years or so. And he’s a single father to a young child. He must have put tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars into this.
Then he just starts talking about the goals he set for his video game collection. Okay, dead wife, that part is over. Now it’s time to focus on video games.
He says that he got an entire Super Nintendo set of games in two and a half months. Reminder: his daughter’s mother recently died or was terminally ill. And he’s spending this money on VIDEO GAMES.
1:29:45 – “I started to get to the point where I started to get bored with games.”
Just like he got bored with his wife. Presumably, this guy has a large insurance policy on his game collection. Expect a house fire soon. Hopefully, he’s not also bored with his daughter so he brings her with him while the house is ablaze.
So anyway, this guy is showing the various non-video game shit that he has in his collection now. They’re video game related but not actual cartridges or whatever. He’s showing a lot of rare and expensive stuff. Reminder: he only started collecting within the last five years, when his wife was diagnosed with cancer.
I just can’t get over this. Let me get this guy’s name.
Stephan Reese. He owns something called The Art of Nintendo Power. Whatever that means. Let’s see if I can find this guy. Hopefully he’s in prison.
https://www.instagram.com/art_of_nintendo_power/
There’s his Instagram. Bunch of pictures of his unfortuante daughter who has short, pink/purple hair. In some of these, she’s nearly bald. Hopefully she doesn’t have cancer too. Well, if she does have cancer that just means another copy of Stadium Events for this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/@ArtofNintendoPower
There’s his Youtube channel. Three thousand subscribers, he rarely uploads, and nobody is watching the videos. So at least there’s that.
“I’m Stephan. I have been collecting rare and unique retro gaming artifacts for a number of years now”
That’s from his description. Yeah. FIVE years. Why be vague about it? It’s FIVE. Since your wife’s cancer diagnosis. You wanted a distraction from that unpleasantness.
God, this might just be the worst human being I’ve ever encountered.
“Please remember to be kind to those of us having a hard day today for whatever the reason. It takes no effort to be kind.”
This from a man who absolutely reveled in his wife’s painful, cancer-ridden death. Fuck you, asshole.
1:35:45 – Back to the video. We’re at Deniz Kahn. You know things are bad when it’s a relief to see Deniz Kahn. Deniz Kahn is a complete scumbag piece of shit but he’s Mother Theresa compared to Stephan Reese.
So anyway, Deniz is apparently BFFs with Stephan Reese. Eugh. I should have guessed.
1:37:00 – Stephan is back. “Rarity is a subjective thing to talk about especially when you’re talking about the value of things. At the very rare end, where you’re talking about one of a kind or just a couple of something in existence, it’s very hard to talk about value.”
This faggot’s wife was one of a kind and he easily placed a value on her: $0.
This guy has apparently spent hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars on this collection that he only started within the past five years, after his wife’s cancer diagnosis. Where did this money come from? According to his Twitter, he works at some video game company. How much can that job possibly pay? Maybe his wife had an enormous life insurance policy.
Then the video just abruptly ends. WITH THIS GUY! This is how they ended the video. With this complete psychopath.
8,800 views after ten months. This thing was not a hit. But Edward Whatever, according to his IMDB, is already working on a “sequel”.
Let’s check out the comments. This article went on WAY too long but I just could not believe that last guy and his unconscionable behaviour towards his wife and daughter. And it was just presented like this was normal. Oh, sure, everybody disposes of their wife after her cancer diagnosis and moves on to video games instead. Totally normal.
- “Screw this, i didn’t know this was a giant commercial. Stopped watch, get this trash out of my feed”
It’s true. This was an ad for this grading company. It was also full of complete psychopaths from Stephan to Super Awkward Gal to Deniz Kahn.
- “Did wata sponsor this? All the wata stuff felt so scripted, especially the dentist dude.”
- “One of the most irresponsible “documentaries” I’ve ever seen. There is some good stuff peppered throughout but the shilling for WATA and the time spent with that disgusting dentist upset me when I watched this a year ago and I’m still mad.”
A lot of comments like this.
- “Old mate that lost his wife to cancer, rough story, I bet he’d give it all back for his wife. I don’t say that to be an arsehole, just an observation on the important of ephemera. Very very cool collection though.”
I’m not sure that we were watching the same video.
- “What a weird way to start the documentary with the quote of a child murderer.”
I didn’t even notice but it’s fitting, given the inclusions of Stephan and Super Awkward Gal.
I was watching the credits just now, because somebody in the comments mentioned Screenwave, and at 1:40:30, it says, “In Memory of Heather Reese.” This is the woman who Stephan reveled in the death of. Absolutely disgusting. Would she want to be associated with a video where her husband talked about how he wanted to move on from her cancer diagnosis by purchasing video games?
Anyway, did Screenwave have some involvement with this “documentary”? It would make sense if they did.
These people make John Riggs look normal.
It’s true. A lot of the people in this thing were just pure evil. Like comic book levels of super-villainy. By comparison, John Riggs is just a big fat guy who’s a lousy dad and constantly trying to cheat on his wife.
when you put it like that Riggsy sounds like a standup dude
can you please make a post about that famous video of Justin being completely blanked out by 3 assholes acting like pompous dicks to him and then he got booted out when his roomate started to taunt the “host”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04To5Vbk49M&ab_channel=MizmoDLX