I'll never forget the laughter you, Jon and I had in that taxi ride to the CEX last year 😂 This video was a joy from start to finish! Thanks for making it buddy
It’s on Good vibes gaming. It should be the one where they’re looking for street pass tags. It’s a terrific video lol. It’s called using street pass in 2022
Me hearing all the Persona music in the video: "Well, it seems someone is enjoying a Persona game." Felix: Shows Persona 5 Royal in the video Me: "Knew it."
Many people in the UK are fairly snobbish about CeX, but all my local stores have friendly staff and have always helped when buying, or returning any problem online orders. Like any used product, it can be a bit of a gamble when buying online, but in the stores you can ask to see discs etc. I've even bought systems at CeX in the past. I traded my black DS lite for a mint condition original white 3DS (back when the system was still active, don't think the slimmer models had released yet) and was able to replace my dead PS3 with a 160GB slim at the start of 2018 (still running now in Aug 2023). All items include a 2yr warranty too, so for their electronics especially that's a nice guarantee on used systems. My only issue with CeX is their policy of using printed covers, for lost or damaged cases. Fair enough, but it should also be discounted (it's priced the same) and they're occasionally sent by mistake in online orders (their own policy says they should be sold instore only). Personally I think they should be stored separately or at the desk, and at a heavy discount considering they are essentially incomplete disc/cartridge only. Because you can bet that if you tried trading just the disc only to them, there's no way they'd offer the full value. But then print a cover and sell at full price? Bit of a piss take.
$1k isn't too bad over three separate vacations, and they were something you purchased while out with people you care about. Sounds like a good way to spend your money to me!
I may need to cave and import them in that case... as far as I know, the only major differences between the US and UK versions are just Luke's voice actor
Fantastic job Felix. Watching your videos keep getting better and better is such a joy. I'm so proud of how your career in the gaming industry is growing - keep up the great work! Game on my dude 😎
These types of videos are so good. Hope theres more videos like this one on the channel. Also that Eastward physical copy is clean i have it myself when i went to best buy randomly.
Man, in my country it's the same, no retro games shop, almost no Gamestop anymore, it's quite sad. Sometimes you'll find a gem on a flea market, but you have to be real lucky :(
Being from Denmark myself I got very surprised when you mentioned you were also from Denmark, i had no idea someone from our small country is working for Nintendo Life ✌️😁 It also made me so happy to see you had such great trips with friends and video games! I’m 34 now with a daughter and wife, so I really can’t do that stuff anymore or go on some big collection for games, since we don’t have good paying jobs and our focus is naturally our daughter. But it was sooo nice to feel the experience through your trip! keep doing what you love and appreciate it, someday family and work life will take most of your time and you will miss the freedom of youth 😊
12:20 The Professor Layton games are so much cheaper at UK CEXs (£3 - £4 for each of the original trilogy). Worth picking up them all next time you visit. An exceptional series.
I'm so glad that you got to join Nintendo Life, your perspective and unique background is a great addition to the channel and this was a great video only you could've made
Traveling + Video Games - a video topic combo which I can never get enough of. Keep up the amazing work. Would happily watch more content involving any and all video game collecting related.
Damn that's cool that the gamestop you went to had a decent retro game selection. The one near me has like, maybe 5 wii games, 5 wii u games, and maybe 8 DS/3DS games at any given time anymore
Perfect music choices in a great video. It’s nice seeing enthusiasm for CeX, I’m so used to it that I feel the only good stuff it ever has is over-priced, but there is an excitement to not knowing what you’ll see in the window
Even though games in Brazil are expensive (including old ones), seeing you struggling to find them made me appreciate the variety I find in my country. 😆 Very good video Felix!
I feel you very much in the start of the video, i'm from Norway and if you want retro video games here you don't really have any other option other than buying stuff online. There is maybe like 1 or 2 physical game stores in the entire country which are all grossly overprices. So the only other options you have are trying to look at thrift stores which almost never carry any games, and if they do, its almost only fifa games for ps2 or ps3. From visiting my local thrift stores for almost 2 years the only game i've actually gotten there was Burnout 3 on Xbox. Physically game hunting just isn't something you can do over here. I am going to be traveling to Japan in a couple of months and i'm very much looking forward to actually being able to buy retro games in a physical store!
That was me during my own trip to Europe. Visiting a CEX in London, a bunch of smaller game stores all clustered on the same street in Paris, and attempting to find more game stores in Brussels and Amsterdam (found one in Amsterdam, but had no luck in Brussels). I was definitely a bit more strapped for cash, and sadly the convertion rate of Euros to Brasilian Reais is terrible, so I couldn't quite buy that many games, but... I still managed to get myself a copy of Sonic Origins Plus and a japanese FFX-X2 for the Switch, plus a cheap Banjo-Kazooie amiibo! Plus during the 6 month stay I had in Tel Aviv, Israel, there was an OFICIAL NINTENDO STORE at a mall 20 minutes from where I was. Tears of the Kingdom release day was a dream come true.
Your Persona 5 rage at 9:30 was beautiful! 😂 I loved all of the subtle P5 references sprinkled through the video. There's two types of people in this world: people that love Persona 5, and people that haven't played Persona 5.
Here from Israel. Small country of 9 million people. We didn't have a main Nintendo distributor until 2020. So yeah, buying 3Ds games at the time was online only. Now getting switch games is fairly easy, although it is mostly big nintendo games in the main gaming store (which is computer store, but still sell games) which is called BUG. We never had gamestop.
That Super Famicom themed GBA SP is slick! I have the "NES Edition" SP that Nintendo released way back when, but yours is way cooler. The prices on physical games have seemingly shot through the roof in recent years. I normally won't shell out much more than the retail cost of a game I find in second hand shops, but I found and bought a copy of Wario World for the GameCube for $100 USD this past weekend. A bit more than I wanted to spend, but I didn't have it yet and rarely see complete copies in good shape.
I did a similar thing last month when I went to Tokyo. With the no region lock for Switch + many Switch games have support for both Japanese and English I ended up buying alot of games! Even many newer games were alot cheaper than eshop or from my local norwegian electronic stores!
I stopped collecting physical media a while ago. I'm a minimalist so I tend to try to not keep so many physical things. I do have some switch carts with cases but I stopped buying those physically after metroid prime remastered came out.
Glad you had an awesome trip in Canada. Game collecting here for myself is quite challenging due to the CAD currency. Thanks for sharing your amazing finds and purchases.
Honestly, spending $1000 on video games within one year ain’t that bad, especially since you work in the industry. If they don’t already, I feel like NintendoLife should offer a yearly stipend for their employees to buy video games to add to their collections.
We have that exact same vintage game store in the Netherlands, I recently went there and picked up both zelda wii titles I never owned and a couple of rare ps3 games. Somehow it has been here for quite a while and I never noticed the store. It came from the UK probably.
I guarantee you Felix spent way more on flights to these countries than the actual games themselves. 😂 Glad you had such an exciting travel experience though!
I've spent more than that this year alone for Switch games. Been buying either new releases, reprints or niche titles that I feel will probably go up in price or are already going up. I kick myself for getting rid of some Gamecube or Wii games, which is why I hold onto everything now.
Yeah, I agree CEX is a great place to look for cheap used games. Here in Malaysia too, the first CEX branch just opened last month and i'm so lucky it is near my house
Awesome story! I do feel that with more online storefronts, it's harder to find physical stores that carry retro games. Used to have a place called Play N Trade where I lived that had a very diverse selection of retro games but it closed as I was finishing High School. GameStop also stopped carrying GBA and GC titles around that same time. I only got into collecting after I graduated college and could actually afford games, but it's been a bit difficult.
@@sparkypack Sad but true. Nowadays I'm like Felix where if I get a chance to travel to major cities or convention events, that's when I try my luck at the used game market.
Same situation where I live, no retro if there was it's a miracle. Only the triple A games at a reasonable price and sometimes its for sale so ok for my wallet, great video👍👍
Have a buddy might be making a trip to japan to visit some family of his. Thinking of giving him a shopping list of switch games to get me because it would be so much cheaper if he bought them there than me ordering off of amazon or eBay 👀😅 Happy to see you happily picking up a copy of Omori. Im on my 3rd playthru trying to achievement hunt everything. Haven't been obsessed with a game in awhile and omori is just so charming. Have over 80 hours into it sofar 🥴😅
@sparkypack Switch is region free. Have a few import games. Ninja Gaiden master collection, monster hunter double cross, okami HD, klonoa collection, bare knuckle 4 🤓 You can also make a dummy profile on your switch and easily browse the Europe and japan eShops.
I so understand this. I live in Indonesia, and it’s a very similar situation. There is a huge selection online, but it’s not as fun as buying in person. I have a few stores that sell switch games, but a while back I had to try to hunt down XB2 and it was a pain😂
I'm from Denmark, my partner is from Germany. I have gotten soooo much gaming merch in Germany - and because wages are generally higher in Denmark than Germany, it's even rather cheap for me. A set of official Nintendo Animal Crossing magnets for the fridge for *checks notes* 40 DKK?! Crazy.
I used to love importing vocaloid albums until the pandemic started ever since then i'd stopped collecting them and i haven't got more since i stopped collecting them in March 2020
Years ago there used to be a closer CEX store, nowadays, I think it's like 2 hours to get to the closest one for me. But they do have a good range of items, I know that feeling for sure. At least have some other stores with decent ranges of items. Not so much for retro games or systems tho, which is annoying really.
I'll never forget the laughter you, Jon and I had in that taxi ride to the CEX last year 😂 This video was a joy from start to finish! Thanks for making it buddy
Which video was that?
It’s on Good vibes gaming. It should be the one where they’re looking for street pass tags. It’s a terrific video lol. It’s called using street pass in 2022
@@zacharysmith8148 found it!
Okay. Do more videos like this! The documentary style, and all the cuts to new scenes with the music making it weirdly fast-paced and exciting.
Yeah i agree
I love Felix’s youthful enthusiasm . He’s proven to be an awesome addition to the team
I can listen to stories about video games all day
Me hearing all the Persona music in the video: "Well, it seems someone is enjoying a Persona game."
Felix: Shows Persona 5 Royal in the video
Me: "Knew it."
Persona 🎵🎶 it just vibes perfectly with everything
Many people in the UK are fairly snobbish about CeX, but all my local stores have friendly staff and have always helped when buying, or returning any problem online orders. Like any used product, it can be a bit of a gamble when buying online, but in the stores you can ask to see discs etc.
I've even bought systems at CeX in the past. I traded my black DS lite for a mint condition original white 3DS (back when the system was still active, don't think the slimmer models had released yet) and was able to replace my dead PS3 with a 160GB slim at the start of 2018 (still running now in Aug 2023). All items include a 2yr warranty too, so for their electronics especially that's a nice guarantee on used systems.
My only issue with CeX is their policy of using printed covers, for lost or damaged cases. Fair enough, but it should also be discounted (it's priced the same) and they're occasionally sent by mistake in online orders (their own policy says they should be sold instore only).
Personally I think they should be stored separately or at the desk, and at a heavy discount considering they are essentially incomplete disc/cartridge only. Because you can bet that if you tried trading just the disc only to them, there's no way they'd offer the full value. But then print a cover and sell at full price? Bit of a piss take.
$1k isn't too bad over three separate vacations, and they were something you purchased while out with people you care about. Sounds like a good way to spend your money to me!
Here in the UK Professor Layton games are all £5 except Azran Legacy seeing them expensive in other parts of the world is strange
I may need to cave and import them in that case... as far as I know, the only major differences between the US and UK versions are just Luke's voice actor
“There was so much I got to experience for the very first time: see a basketball game, drink root beer.”
You are so pure.
We need more Nintendo Life days out. This video and Jons video where you and Zion went around London were great.
Fantastic job Felix. Watching your videos keep getting better and better is such a joy. I'm so proud of how your career in the gaming industry is growing - keep up the great work! Game on my dude 😎
These types of videos are so good. Hope theres more videos like this one on the channel. Also that Eastward physical copy is clean i have it myself when i went to best buy randomly.
Man, in my country it's the same, no retro games shop, almost no Gamestop anymore, it's quite sad. Sometimes you'll find a gem on a flea market, but you have to be real lucky :(
There is plenty here, but nobody can afford games anymore thanks to the insane cost of living.
This was incredible Felix! I admire how much work went into this video and dang! Proud of you dude! - Craig
Being from Denmark myself I got very surprised when you mentioned you were also from Denmark, i had no idea someone from our small country is working for Nintendo Life ✌️😁 It also made me so happy to see you had such great trips with friends and video games! I’m 34 now with a daughter and wife, so I really can’t do that stuff anymore or go on some big collection for games, since we don’t have good paying jobs and our focus is naturally our daughter. But it was sooo nice to feel the experience through your trip! keep doing what you love and appreciate it, someday family and work life will take most of your time and you will miss the freedom of youth 😊
12:20 The Professor Layton games are so much cheaper at UK CEXs (£3 - £4 for each of the original trilogy). Worth picking up them all next time you visit. An exceptional series.
Having a person on staff with a full Mario vs. Donkey Kong collection truly makes Nintendo Life peak nintendo
I'm so glad that you got to join Nintendo Life, your perspective and unique background is a great addition to the channel and this was a great video only you could've made
Traveling + Video Games - a video topic combo which I can never get enough of. Keep up the amazing work. Would happily watch more content involving any and all video game collecting related.
Seems like you like Persona 5 Royal, its truly a masterpiece
Damn that's cool that the gamestop you went to had a decent retro game selection. The one near me has like, maybe 5 wii games, 5 wii u games, and maybe 8 DS/3DS games at any given time anymore
Perfect music choices in a great video. It’s nice seeing enthusiasm for CeX, I’m so used to it that I feel the only good stuff it ever has is over-priced, but there is an excitement to not knowing what you’ll see in the window
Even though games in Brazil are expensive (including old ones), seeing you struggling to find them made me appreciate the variety I find in my country. 😆 Very good video Felix!
If prices are in Brazilian Real, I could possibly buy hundreds of games when I was over. 😂
@@sparkypackyou will still be paying about 100 dolars for any nintendo game( Botw, mario odyssey,splatoon)
@@maffiatmarcatto367 😮 oh no.
@@maffiatmarcatto367 where in Brasil are you finding these insane prices?
I bought zelda totk online and it wasn't this expensive
@@william41017 any retail store tbh, buying online does reduce the cost by a lot tho, you should be able to get any game by the 50 to 60 mark
What an insanely good video Felix! Absolutely loved it! - Aaron
Loved this gaming adventure video! It's a great change of pace. Keep 'em coming!
Really love this video idea! Super fun to watch
This was such a wholesome and well made video. One of my faves yet!
I feel you very much in the start of the video, i'm from Norway and if you want retro video games here you don't really have any other option other than buying stuff online. There is maybe like 1 or 2 physical game stores in the entire country which are all grossly overprices. So the only other options you have are trying to look at thrift stores which almost never carry any games, and if they do, its almost only fifa games for ps2 or ps3. From visiting my local thrift stores for almost 2 years the only game i've actually gotten there was Burnout 3 on Xbox. Physically game hunting just isn't something you can do over here.
I am going to be traveling to Japan in a couple of months and i'm very much looking forward to actually being able to buy retro games in a physical store!
That was me during my own trip to Europe.
Visiting a CEX in London, a bunch of smaller game stores all clustered on the same street in Paris, and attempting to find more game stores in Brussels and Amsterdam (found one in Amsterdam, but had no luck in Brussels). I was definitely a bit more strapped for cash, and sadly the convertion rate of Euros to Brasilian Reais is terrible, so I couldn't quite buy that many games, but...
I still managed to get myself a copy of Sonic Origins Plus and a japanese FFX-X2 for the Switch, plus a cheap Banjo-Kazooie amiibo!
Plus during the 6 month stay I had in Tel Aviv, Israel, there was an OFICIAL NINTENDO STORE at a mall 20 minutes from where I was.
Tears of the Kingdom release day was a dream come true.
Love the use of Persona music in the video! This was a cool trip and I’m glad you had a great time. 😊
Your Persona 5 rage at 9:30 was beautiful! 😂 I loved all of the subtle P5 references sprinkled through the video.
There's two types of people in this world: people that love Persona 5, and people that haven't played Persona 5.
The music is also Persona 4
Its always great seeing a video journal of you traveling and finding videogames.
My Son works in CEX ..he's such a fan of games and works hard to understand the customers needs.. thank you Felix Jon and Zeon ❤
Here from Israel. Small country of 9 million people. We didn't have a main Nintendo distributor until 2020. So yeah, buying 3Ds games at the time was online only.
Now getting switch games is fairly easy, although it is mostly big nintendo games in the main gaming store (which is computer store, but still sell games) which is called BUG. We never had gamestop.
Wow finding Kid Icarus Uprising for that cheap is pretty insane
I love the retro gaming content you have all produced! Keep it up! :D
That Super Famicom themed GBA SP is slick! I have the "NES Edition" SP that Nintendo released way back when, but yours is way cooler.
The prices on physical games have seemingly shot through the roof in recent years. I normally won't shell out much more than the retail cost of a game I find in second hand shops, but I found and bought a copy of Wario World for the GameCube for $100 USD this past weekend. A bit more than I wanted to spend, but I didn't have it yet and rarely see complete copies in good shape.
Great video, Felix! You're a great addition to Nintendo Life.
What a wonderful video from start to finish, I'm glad you had such a great time!!
I did a similar thing last month when I went to Tokyo. With the no region lock for Switch + many Switch games have support for both Japanese and English I ended up buying alot of games! Even many newer games were alot cheaper than eshop or from my local norwegian electronic stores!
Loved all the Persona music in this video
I love the Persona background music! ∩_∩
Omg the Winnipeg jets hat I love you Felix!!
I'm baffled that Alex wasn't willing to go into CEX stores with you guys. 🤣
I've met Alex in a CeX before 😆
I stopped collecting physical media a while ago. I'm a minimalist so I tend to try to not keep so many physical things. I do have some switch carts with cases but I stopped buying those physically after metroid prime remastered came out.
Glad you had an awesome trip in Canada. Game collecting here for myself is quite challenging due to the CAD currency. Thanks for sharing your amazing finds and purchases.
I live in the Netherlands, we have CEX stores everywhere. I didn’t know these old games where so hard to get
Honestly, spending $1000 on video games within one year ain’t that bad, especially since you work in the industry. If they don’t already, I feel like NintendoLife should offer a yearly stipend for their employees to buy video games to add to their collections.
Excelente video. Gracias, Felix! :)
We have that exact same vintage game store in the Netherlands, I recently went there and picked up both zelda wii titles I never owned and a couple of rare ps3 games. Somehow it has been here for quite a while and I never noticed the store. It came from the UK probably.
This is so cool , I love hearing stories like this, Felix you’re amazing and a fantastic edition to the Nintendo life team.
I love how your incorporate the Persona music into the video👌
How can you not love Felix? This video is SO GOOOOOD. I want to see more of the footage from Comic Con!
I really enjoy your story Felix!,finding all of these good games for cheap must have been an amazing felling
I guarantee you Felix spent way more on flights to these countries than the actual games themselves. 😂
Glad you had such an exciting travel experience though!
Zion Just carries Mother 3 repros with him handing them out
I wish we had more game stores for cheap prices like these in my contry too. Amazing video!
I've spent more than that this year alone for Switch games. Been buying either new releases, reprints or niche titles that I feel will probably go up in price or are already going up. I kick myself for getting rid of some Gamecube or Wii games, which is why I hold onto everything now.
I never knew the Picross 3D games had physical versions.
Yeah, I agree CEX is a great place to look for cheap used games. Here in Malaysia too, the first CEX branch just opened last month and i'm so lucky it is near my house
Wholesome video, well done Felix 😄
This was an awesome video, probs one of the better ones you guys have done! Nice work!
Awesome story! I do feel that with more online storefronts, it's harder to find physical stores that carry retro games. Used to have a place called Play N Trade where I lived that had a very diverse selection of retro games but it closed as I was finishing High School. GameStop also stopped carrying GBA and GC titles around that same time. I only got into collecting after I graduated college and could actually afford games, but it's been a bit difficult.
Many physical media stores had to close. This includes movie and music stores. Covid even sped up the process of most people buying online. 😢
@@sparkypack Sad but true. Nowadays I'm like Felix where if I get a chance to travel to major cities or convention events, that's when I try my luck at the used game market.
Seeing someone amazed by CEX is fascinating haha
Felix Sanchez, the world's foremost collector of Mario vs. Donkey Kong games lol
Same situation where I live, no retro if there was it's a miracle. Only the triple A games at a reasonable price and sometimes its for sale so ok for my wallet, great video👍👍
Have a buddy might be making a trip to japan to visit some family of his. Thinking of giving him a shopping list of switch games to get me because it would be so much cheaper if he bought them there than me ordering off of amazon or eBay 👀😅
Happy to see you happily picking up a copy of Omori. Im on my 3rd playthru trying to achievement hunt everything. Haven't been obsessed with a game in awhile and omori is just so charming. Have over 80 hours into it sofar 🥴😅
Make sure you have a Japanese console to actually play the games.
@sparkypack
Switch is region free. Have a few import games. Ninja Gaiden master collection, monster hunter double cross, okami HD, klonoa collection, bare knuckle 4 🤓
You can also make a dummy profile on your switch and easily browse the Europe and japan eShops.
this seems like so much fun, and the video definitively translated that well!
Compelling to watch your triumph buying these games in different countries throughout. Hope you enjoy them all!
Great fun video! Excellent to see you again!
Every game has a story, and the journey is fascinating. Hopefully many more adventures to come
Now this is some wholesome content right here
Love the Danish camaraderie with the Nikolaj Ehlers hat
Very cool vid loved seeing this!
I will always cherish the feelings of starting out collecting thanks for showing me the start of your journey
When you said you live in Denmark, I (a Dane) literally looked up at my phone in shock. I never knew!
Tal for gode videoer!
I so understand this. I live in Indonesia, and it’s a very similar situation. There is a huge selection online, but it’s not as fun as buying in person. I have a few stores that sell switch games, but a while back I had to try to hunt down XB2 and it was a pain😂
This video is so wholesome 🥰 I love it.
Felix! - Live streams when?! 🎉
I'm from Denmark, my partner is from Germany. I have gotten soooo much gaming merch in Germany - and because wages are generally higher in Denmark than Germany, it's even rather cheap for me. A set of official Nintendo Animal Crossing magnets for the fridge for *checks notes* 40 DKK?! Crazy.
Haha the Canada city is my city, I know that retro toy store
OMG! You were actually in my hometown! PNP Games is my go to place for retro games
From Sweden here. I feel your pain with the lack of game stores here in the Nordic countries.
I highly concur with you man😁
Dude if I can get around the region lock on my Wii and 3ds you can but I loved seeing the video and the around the world video game stores.
Ok... saving some money by paying for a flight, hotel and releasing so much CO2? No thank you
I love the CEX!
i wish you could make an irl video from each country and shop, this was a good video
Card shark is so good, more people should be talking about it
Edvard Eriksen is Felix's Great Great Great Grandfather? :)
Now this is character development
I used to love importing vocaloid albums until the pandemic started ever since then i'd stopped collecting them and i haven't got more since i stopped collecting them in March 2020
Years ago there used to be a closer CEX store, nowadays, I think it's like 2 hours to get to the closest one for me.
But they do have a good range of items, I know that feeling for sure.
At least have some other stores with decent ranges of items.
Not so much for retro games or systems tho, which is annoying really.
Hey Felix! There's a great video game store in Copenhagen called Nintendo Pusheren.
The 🐐. Yeah, there’s something romantic about this hobby.
Homeboy was definitely in Winnipeg 😅 I recognized those locations 💯
Felix, you madman.
0:16 Also, excuse me?
I don't have the means to collect but this video was fun, inspiring and I thank you for sharing.
We in Malaysia finally got our first CEX! Hopefully more stores to come 😂
That CeX looks identical to the one near my house..I guess they really do build em' all the same.
Felix has elevated this channel since he's joined the team. Awesome content.