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BoxTrick: Ep 107 - PS1/N64 Pickups with DeeGee2009

·1 hr 20 min·2 clips

Posting vertical instead of 16:9 removes friction, and DeeGee2009's watch time on his top-10 videos "went through the roof."

1. BoxTrick: A Retro Gaming Podcast, Ep 107, covers PS1 and N64 pickups, with most of the talk about what DeeGee2009 bought at the Siege convention in Greenville, South Carolina. 2. Host Matt Brady, who lives in Portland and collects N64 mostly through eBay, talks with guest DeeGee2009, a Kentucky-area PS1 collector and streamer who has posted video for almost four years. 3. The central thread is DeeGee2009's PS1 collection, which stood at 987 games, 13 short of his 1,000-game goal for the year, and the heavier, rarer titles he says remain. 4. At Siege he found Mega Man Legends 2 and a sealed GTA box set with the London mission pack, marked $140 and sold at 50% off, at a booth he says sold $15,000 in the first hour. 5. He missed a Rule of Rose that sold for $500, against a usual $800, by one hour, and says he once paid $20 for the game before his ex pawned half his collection. 6. He criticises vendors who pressure buyers after a conversation, citing one who offered "five bucks off" but demanded a decision on the spot, and contrasts that with a seller who chatted about Gurren Lagann without asking him to buy. 7. The pickups include Space Hulk for about $20, an MLS game for $30 that he says typically goes for $60, Psychic Force for Dreamcast, and Celebrity Deathmatch, and the two discuss Vanark, which Matt Brady describes as similar to Star Fox 64. 8. DeeGee2009 gave Cardinal Sin a harsh review, saying he spent three to four hours without getting past level four, and Matt Brady recommends Roscoe McQueen as a "truly a hidden gem" with Johnny Bravo-style humor. 9. On content creation, DeeGee2009 says his 60,000-subscriber Star Wars channel drew only about 100 views on long-form videos because the audience came for Shorts, and that vertical-format top-10 videos raised watch time. 10. Retro game collectors and small YouTube or TikTok creators will get the most from this episode.

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