Can These NASTY Retro Video Games Be Saved?!

[@ApplesWhoDance]

Lived in the area for several years before eventually moving, but local businesses such as yours truly brought so much life to the area for locals. The staff were always nice and helpful whenever I would stop by. Glad to see you guys are putting out some content online and getting some eyes on it!

[@RadJunk]

Thank you!!

[@trunkmonkey355]

I know profit margins gotta be tight, but it's awesome you guys are able to grow a business you're passionate about. I was also blown away by the arcade tour!

[@RadJunk]

Thank you so much!! 💙

[@DarthRevan-rp5sn]

@@RadJunk It's probably sold by now just asking out of curiousty how much where you guys asking for the Collector's Edition of Resident Evil Village that's right behind you

[@mitchpattimusic]

I'm originally from Crestview but I live in the Tampa Bay area now so I only get to make it home once or twice a year for the holidays. We visited the store when y'all first opened and another time a few years after that, always a great experience. You channel started popping up for me and I was so glad to see y'all thriving! I'm hoping to make it over again this fall to see what I can score for my vintage collection. Congrats on all your success!

[@RadJunk]

Hey thank you so much!!! So cool seeing locals (and previous locals) find us on here!

[@chalmerznorman1149]

this has been my new favorite channel

[@RadJunk]

Heck yea, thank you!!

[@radelta]

Simp

[@TimmyTurnerfan27]

I am a simp to

[@Arcthaw]

Love your content. Grew up in south Florida, seeing your shop helps keep my childhood nostalgia alive!

[@milty66]

this and tates

[@Mattyisokay]

Now idc if the consoles are crusty or not but i think it would be cool to see replacing screens on handhelds or testing/fixing old machines…i want to see how they work and whats needed in order to fix them. Hopefully that makes sense.

[@RadJunk]

We have a ton of that on the way, we hope you enjoy it!

[@beverchakus4441]

"Sometimes you gotta scrub a crusty Starfox" made me remember to hit the sub! Love you take on this stuff and your proper way to care for these old gems. I'm in!

[@randomguysays]

I love video game repair, breakdown and clean videos. Those are seriously some of my favorite videos to watch..

[@fabricatedego]

You just showed up in my recommendations lol I always hit you up when I visit my home town. Love that you are on KZbin as well.

[@MeanderingMikesManCave]

91% Isopropyl alcohol is good ... amazing that you got all those working! It is a bit more expensive, but I use 99%.

[@joestrk1333]

when blue video game woman makes a video, i watch

[@RadJunk]

💙

[@mitosiskain]

💍

[@Anpeo]

It's simple really. A man sees blue video game woman's upload, a man's happy.

[@cyan0xide]

​@@Anpeo if hair dye was illegal mens productivity would raise 300%

[@SilverShadow17]

😂

[@mikehoepfl9436]

Crazy that I had been to rad bar a bunch of times since it opened but never to the actual shop until recently. Wife loved the OG gameboy color games I got her from there! Love what you guys provide for the community.

[@VinnyDisorderOfficial]

wow thats awesome u can do so much about fixing and renewing stuff! im an old gamer myself and seeing other enthusiasts makes me happy!

[@ianhall6614]

My most anticipated video of the week. Can’t wait for more!

[@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305]

those old catridge games never die.. i lost Wave race64 as a kid, and 7 months later my dad found it in the leaves he was raking.. washed it in the sink.. dried it.. and it still works

[@luske2]

This was my dream for many years to open up a games store with retro games, collectibles and some sort of gaming café... I'm very impressed and hapoy for you guys! I never had the courage to open my own business so instead I became a social worker 😂

[@driftwoods2229]

Id suggest throwing a quick spray of computer cleaner into the cartridge before doing isopropyl with a Q tip. After opening doing a squirt of purple Super Clean and a power drill with a small car detailing brush to agitate everything, might save a lot of time. Love the channel!

[@RadJunk]

I’ll give that a shot! Thanks for the tip!

[@FunfactorGaming]

Happy Monday! Thanks for the great weekly videos, keep em coming! ☀️🎮

[@domingo84]

Really like you guys are dropping a lot more videos now! Love the shop and like seeing what kinda trades you guys get in!

[@RadJunk]

Thank you!!

[@AgustinRodriguez-dd6mj]

The crust just gives those old games character 😂

[@coolergappney1943]

Blue video game girl: subscribe or die! 🫡 Shop 🐭: Die! 😈

[@jettjedi73]

Great video Sam! I am just blown away that some people don't take better care of these old games, I just cannot relate.. LOL!

[@brianrichards8013]

If you open to board I would use bright boy on the pins also a MR clean sheet works wonders with a dab of simple green or 90% alcohol for a easier clean process

[@JonGhostz]

I remember my parents renting me smash bros for the weekend but it refused to work. I was so mad until my dad did the same trick at 4:55 and got it to work. Definitely a blast from the past to see it!

[@CharlieTheCAM]

I never thought I'll see the original Ramona flowers in the flesh! Thank you very much for the video. I'll love to pass by the store to buy some gems you have there, but I don't like on the states. Keep up the good work. Have a nice day

[@elbackapacko7138]

This popped up onto my recommended so started watching it and thought "that store looks very familiar..." I came in several years ago when you guys were brand new! Glad to see you're still going down there! Still got the NES you guys sold me. Will probably stop in when I come back to visit some friends in a few weeks...

[@RadJunk]

Heck yea! 💙

[@AVantinfluencer]

The nicest and funny Lady... awesome channel and store. 😮😮😮

[@DaveSimonH]

I always have a decon process when buying any used games, blu-rays etc. For the plastic cases I use 'Mr Sheen' multi-surface polish + a couple of yellow dusters, one for cleaning then 2nd one for the buffing/polish stage. It's surprising how a crusty, battered case can often clean up really nicely. Obviously with card slipcovers, paper sleeves etc. you have to be more careful, any liquid to a minimum and making sure to leave no trace of it. For cigarette smoke smell, you can sometimes cover it by wiping a little scented fabric softener on/in the case and a tiny amount on the paper covers. But occasionally they are just too far gone. I remember a white DVD sleeve partially exposed from plastic, stained dark yellow. Had to throw out the case & cover, as the smell was so strong.

[@xjayfromva7730]

It looked like someone spilled soda on those carts. Lol good job getting em back to playable.

[@datelovuelta]

my complete respect about you been able to maintain the store of your dreams!! in most parts of the world thats impossible

[@sirdaveysockrocker]

It may be Rad Junk, but it’s CLEAN Rad Junk 🧼

[@rometherevenant8749]

Man this store is so cool. Really loving the uploads!

[@Naruto_uzumaki120]

2:53 now this is pod racing

[@RadJunk]

Wooohooooo!

[@MFSpaceboy]

“It’s working! IT’S WORKING!” -Star Wars Episode I: Racer

[@rjbishop6128]

The green thumbnail writing is So 90s, love it😎

[@Codmaniac91]

I remember learning a long time ago to always look for holes in a used disc before i purchase it. Especially when it comes used games and even blu ray discs.

[@radelta]

seems pretty obvious

[@kevinjohnson9929]

Out of the thousands of cartridges i have bought and 18 years of reselling i have only came across 2 that I could not get to work. I have had to leave some in the system with the power turned on for several hours and then they started working. I have not “Relowed” any yet but I hear that is another way to get them back to life

[@MrGiovanniOSFP]

What a beautiful shop!

[@HIROsilverstar]

300 grit sandpaper always was the perfect thing to clean the cartridge terminals.. it's the best thing like for real. Only seen a couple people ever use it here on KZbin

[@cabalcore2555]

I have a decent collection of retro games/consoles/collectables and I cannot agree enough about crusty and smelly stuff. I have a plastic tote that I fill with dryer sheets and put my smelly stuff in and I have iso and plastic wedges for the crust lmao. Keep up the great content. I love it!

[@RadJunk]

Dryer sheets work wonders!

[@Jashn20002000]

Whatever camera you are using is amazing compared to so many other KZbin videos I have seen, I mean the color on your footage is extremely vibrant.

[@Dan-gw3cu]

Love these restoration videos

[@illegalsmirf]

i love watching u scrub crusty stuff more please!

[@AngelStitchMusic]

I am planning a road trip soon and this place is on my list! Thanks yall for the videos!

[@mauaraya141]

I had breakfast watching this vid, great company, cheers

[@RadJunk]

Glad you enjoyed it!!

[@irunonwindows]

3:25 maybe they left it in on a window sill and the sunshine got to it. 😂 btw i love this channel!

[@UndrAttack]

Will never understand taking filthy items in for trade. It's even more degen than taking in stuff without a case. 1. It's like do they not want the maximum from a trade? & 2. Do they really have no shame in letting other people know how disgusting their living space has to be?

[@illegalsmirf]

LOL

[@eatmoreporkporky4342]

Welcome to Hicksville or the hood. Take your pick. When you're smoking meth and crack hygiene isn't paramount.

[@TheManoGalo]

Thank you, KZbin algorithm, for recommending this amazing channel ❤

[@CaffeineKing]

Yep!! No idea how I got here either! 😂

[@cadenpolen001]

So glad that you were able to save the Star Fox 64! 🦊

[@Kane-yg5zy]

Great store! And great videos! I wish i was in the area to stop by.🎮💙🤘

[@RadJunk]

💙💙💙

[@RokushoHasashi]

Super Mario 64, Majoras Mask and Ocarina of Time are very rare and pricey [especially loose]. Star Wars Episode 1 Racer is actually on Xbox Game Pass, and it plays pretty good on it 😀 Seeing you take apart Star Fox 64 and cleaning up and restoring it to its former glory was amazing 👏🏽

[@3DJapan]

I hate that collectors make these prices go up so high. There are games I'd like to play that I never got to when I was younger but they're still so expensive, sometimes even more than they were new. Even broken ones! With anything else you'd see things get cheaper when they're outdated.

[@KingDirtyThunderblade-hi4yf]

Oh wow what a great shop you have !

[@RadJunk]

Thank you!

[@HKT-4300]

I never liked how the launch 3DS XL's all had a coating of color with black plastic underneath, makes every scratch so much worse cause of it.

[@_l3m35_]

I get a bunch of old stuff on a regular basis (I run a site about games, so readers sometimes send things to me), and some of it is much, MUCH worse than this. I remember a Mega Drive III (Genesis II in US) that looked like it had been abandoned under the sun and rain, and when I opened it up, it had a lot of DIRT, like a reddish soil inside. It could have a plant if it wasn't dry and dark. I guess the guy was living where dust storms were common, maybe Mars. No ideia how that crap ended up inside the console. And some cartridges look beyond cleaning until I brush the contacts with fine sandpaper. Most of them come back from the dead.

[@RadJunk]

It’s crazy!

[@LeeJoRo]

Damn. When I trade stuff, I make sure it's as clean as possible

[@YTALPOOL]

I’m in the UK and we have a store here, CEX, where the clerks always compliment the condition of my trades. They tell me most people bring in garbage.

[@LeeJoRo]

@@YTALPOOL same. Some of the things I've seen people (try) to trade at CEX is pretty bad / embarrassing. Have some pride!

[@Codmaniac91]

I love your channel btw! I've been new to it for around a month. And I love it so far!

[@bubba966]

This is reminding me of a Conkers that i got that had been puked on. Was able to clean it up just fine except for the RF shield. That was corroded so I just swapped in a nice clean one and then you couldn't tell it had any issue.

[@dragonborne8687]

I have never owned an N64. I think it's about time for me to try one. The early days of 3d.

[@atrax7023]

When you do get an N64 a must have is GoldenEye 007.

[@dragonborne8687]

@atrax7023 So I played a 007. The menu music is amazing. Control a bit stiff, tho 😄

[@atrax7023]

@@dragonborne8687 I'm sure you will get use to it but playing multiplayer is a blast.

[@Evercade_Effect]

Glad you were able to save those games.

[@Ellenslife851]

I would love to visit your shop if you ever do game system repair. My grandmas snes needs repair work. I used to play a lot of Tetris on it just like my grandma

[@gustavo9758]

That is a NICE store you got there.

[@michaelcharach]

Poor Sam, having to clean all that crust. I would definitely wear gloves.

[@the_str4ng3r]

get to work on the merch! Been dying to buy some shirts n stuff ever since I found your channel!

[@RadJunk]

We just got new merch in at the shop and should have some available online soon!

[@mysongislove]

Hi! Love your videos so far! :) I was wondering if I can use the isopropyl alcohol to clean my Super Nintendo games, too? And would you recommend cleaning the console like this too?? Thank you! Btw I like watching these cleaning and taking apart the games vids ❤😊

[@lilsushiboi99]

I love content like this... I have a dreamcast and love retro games, they are the best! jetset radio remake!! wooo!!!

[@edwardgreenjr167]

Simple Green for the win. I had to *bathe* arcade parts in that stuff to resurrect them. Curious what the Q-Tip/iso-alcohol/simple green budget is for trade ins, lol.

[@Jazzy_Waffles]

This has been such a fun channel to watch. I live in Arizona, and wish we had some used game stores that take the same amount of care you all do! Great casual videos! Side note, what camera are you using to film?

[@RadJunk]

Thanks for watching!!! We use a few different cameras from a Nikon z8 for the podcast, to our phones for shorts. This particular video was shot on a DJI Osmo Pocket 3!

[@Jazzy_Waffles]

@@RadJunk Awesome! Free publicity for that pocket camera. Everything looks sharp smooth!

[@RadJunk]

Seriously thank you! It’s so appreciated.

[@SilverShadow17]

I enjoy watching these types of videos.

[@SherringtonBun]

Just saw this channel today. Weirdly entertaining?! Subbed.

[@RadJunk]

Thank you!!

[@decepticonmark]

Breaks my heart how some people treat their consoles and games. Also, at least a dead roach didnt fall out of that Star Fox😅

[@roytrenneman2200]

Yep i use glass cleaner on old snes game's. Keeps em clean and they all work perfectly! 👌

[@chrisstephenson8311]

Your hair makes me think of avatar🤔👍🏻 we need more places like this…I would buy from a store like this over chain places👍🏻 I just did a new factory battery replacement in my first gen Nintendo switch along with the joy cons too and was fun and pretty easy👍🏻

[@Dan-gw3cu]

You can also try using mr clean magic eraser for those yellow parts

[@ZhuoAo]

Having a video game store like this is quite cyberpunky.

[@VERMrunner]

What adapter do you use for the your 64 to the newer tvs?

[@Darkuni]

I dig on these cleaning videos.

[@OregonChronic]

New fan of the channel. I love your voice 😍

[@benwu7980]

'maybe nicotine, who knows, I don't, I don't wanna know, quite frankly' words of wisdom. The Mario Sunshine disk rot is honestly impressive for all the wrong reasons. I don't really grok quite what happened to it.

[@CornyPuddle]

I've cleaned a lot of n64 games in my day. But damn those were DIRTY

[@scottyj.8211]

Sooooooooo relaxing!!!!!!!Loving these Rad crew!!!!!!!!😎🙂💙

[@picklemetimbers3003]

You can clean the games with a damp magic eraser. Less exposure to chemicals. You are welcome 😊

[@hollywoodspiral]

Your hair looks amazing

[@RadJunk]

Thank you!

[@thestendhalsyndrome]

Would like to see more stuff like this and some of the cartridge cleaning shorts i saw you guys put up before. there's some scary ones i saw like the one with dead bugs.. Also awesome seeing Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn on the shelf in the background when you were showing the handhelds... what's your price for it 👀

[@LittleRhubarb]

This channel is becoming one of my favourites but please wear gloves when cleaning up that sort of mess

[@RadJunk]

🧤🧤

[@maxnova9763]

11:00 Famous last words.

[@RadJunk]

🥲

[@driftwoods2229]

Wish I was closer to the shop, would love one of those lime green Game Boy Colors

[@michaelroth6975]

Maybe a vid of the most common questions you get asked, games/systems people want. Maybe what people have requested for the shop that are good and bad ideas in terms of layout and accessability.

[@RadJunk]

Great idea!

[@kevinjohnson9929]

That Mario sunshine looks as if someone let it soak in some sort of experimental solution.

[@sehrgrossesglied5000]

Cleaning crusty stuff ASMR is a thing you know 😊

[@ocstrangeness]

Just wanted to point out that without any context of a title, that preview thumbnail suggests a very, very different story.

[@1981mrdavid]

We think alike. Fellow men of culture. Lol

[@RabidBeave]

We got plenty of regular Ds's in our store, but 2/3Ds is missing in action.

[@RadJunk]

Regular ds’s and ds lites are great when you’re out of gameboy advances!

[@Jerome-C]

thank god we can change the cover of those trashy Handled

[@Throughchrisinblood]

You dudes should totally do a series where you scrub just crusty stuff!! Oh, and don’t dudes ship stuff too?!

[@arlingtontrains7]

I honestly want that StarFox!!! Ben wanting to play it again, my brother lost our game as kids sadly, let a friend borrow it and never got it back! 😭

[@Polyvinci]

I have all of this shown in this video, with the exception of the DSi, and then some. Perfect condition. I have two PSPs, my O.G. 1000 with the normal square button hanging over the edge of the PCB, and a 2000, which ended up with the D-Pad not working, although it's mint condition. I'm not sure what is wrong with the 2000; I don't think that it's physical. Not sure if my Jag CD needs to be capped or not. It's been on a shelf on one of my Jags for years. Oh, and a perfect copy of Snatcher for the Sega CD which I bought new back in 1994. I kept one of my Virtual Boys. I sold fifty others to coworkers at a Bank for $50 each back in 1997, when EB was liquidating a mountain of them for $25 each. How did I sell them? I played one in the break room. People kept on coming in and tried it. They were non gamers, but they wanted one. I was chewed out by management a few weeks later when Virtual Boys were in cubicles all over the call center. You can sell anything if you position it right.

[@atrax7023]

Too much radness in here totally subbed.

[@RadJunk]

Raddddd 💙

[@Nldalie2772]

That disc almost looked like it had been thrown in a microwave for a few seconds. I used to do that with old scratched up CDs for fun.

[@RadJunk]

That may or may not have been a thing we used to do 😬

[@ReFreshz1]

If that's how those games looks like just imagine how that customer house looks like 😬🤣

[@shaolin95]

I love watching these videos! 🎉

[@RadJunk]

Thank you!! 💙💙💙