Dollar Store Gaming - Scott The Woz

[@Leggimtha]

"For a kid on a 20 dollar a week allowance" .... Suddenly Scott's insanely free and easy stance towards spending exorbitant amounts of money on landfill makes a lot of sense

[@LincolnRon]

That's how much most kids I knew got when I was a kid. In 1973 a $5.00 item would cost $22.70 in 2006. That same item would cost $31.30 in 2021. So $5 a week was probably the normal allowance when I was a kid but now $30 a week is probably the normal allowance for a kid.

[@hugoj4839]

When I was 12 yo, I had...2 euros a week. And I was fine with it :p

[@LincolnRon]

@@pollard068 I take it you grew up in the 1950s & 60s or early. Because the average price of a candy bar from 1900 to 1969 was a nickle. A sugar shortage caused the price to double (a dime) in 1970. Then 15 cents in 1973, 20 cents in 1976, and a quarter in 1978. Prices for candy bars have continued to stedily rise at about the same pace.

[@LincolnRon]

@@pollard068 That's a really recent trend. I take it you must be under 30?

[@blue_axolotl64]

imagine getting an allowance lmao

[@recorderdude]

I vividly remember the shelves of my local five below toppling from the weight of unsold Skylanders a few years back.

[@NoahsArchive357]

Someone should turn all those copies into a maze

[@mrchair5676]

Mine had old ps3 games

[@GiffanyCD]

Lucky, I wasted hundreds of dollars on Lego Dimensions like an idiot, when I could've just went to five below for them yeah they sold those for a while

[@persfoe]

you can see the involvement of the checkmark, many, many likes compared to other comments

[@Grenino]

Skylanders is godly

[@Gn0ki]

$20 a week allowance? Young Scott was really living it up

[@goodusermaadinternet6774]

Ikr that’s what I would get in a year

[@Shaniverse]

@@goodusermaadinternet6774 exactly

[@ConStormENT]

You got to have an allowance?

[@horacegentleman3296]

All I got was beatings and CPTSD

[@YakkoWarnerTower]

That's reasonable ngl.

[@fernandoantoniomusic8712]

The fact that Scott considers a $20 a week allowance a tight budget as a child is amazing to me. The only thing I ever got when I asked for an allowance was the threat of an ass-whoopin.

[@mgflo45]

Yes, the true childhood souls experience

[@Iamnotrandom565]

I mean, this is Ohio

[@qstan1999]

@@Iamnotrandom565 shut up

[@xldjvista]

😅

[@hackman669]

Ouch.

[@TheMaskedChris]

I remember seeing a copy of Mario kart Wii on a dollar three once, I may never find that golden goose again.

[@supmichael]

Its the Wii Deleted You guy

[@JS_GAMEZYT]

ah yes the dollar three

[@yourfriendlysubaruoutback]

Considering that a used copy of MK Wii goes for upwards of $70 on eBay now, you WILL never find that golden goose again.

[@NewtubeWorldYT]

My favorite store, the Dollar *Three*

[@edgyslayer]

Why you didn't buy it

[@ChaseRaph]

100% with Scott on the dollar store experience, as a young child picking things out with a very limited amount of money was fun.

[@jace.r]

Those sticky hands were the best item there hands down

[@BulkBogan]

@@jace.r You forgetting about the pop guns????

[@swiftshock2615]

Even in our mid-20s, my sister still invites me to Dollar Tree for fun. Love looking at the cheap action figures with the goofy names! Probably why I binge Ashens vids so much.

[@Cheesehead302]

@@BulkBogan I remember getting the stink bomb one time and just unloading it directly in my grandma's living room. I honestly remember it smelling fucking putrid.

[@CaptainApathetic]

I feel it a lot bc I grew up in a shitty small town where the dollar general and family dollar were really the only stores other than the grocery store There was also a local Dept store chain named Alco that mainly operated in small towns but they shut down in like 2013

[@lukeskywalker987]

"$20 allowance." Well that explains the four Wii U's.

[@hoemalone]

My brain broke when he said that. Bruh comes from money money

[@imvermilion8010]

I'm 13 and get 10 bucks. And I'm Canadian so that's like 7 bucks in America!

[@turdboxes5660]

I only get 10 dollars every two weeks

[@cringycoolkid1542]

You guys are getting allowance?

[@walterhwhite9933]

I got 100 dollars every week

[@lochlannjohnson732]

Man, 20 dollars per week? You could buy 52 chicken shoots per year with that kind of money.

[@mro.p.9093]

52 likes. Ironic

[@LochlannJohnson]

This is my old account, and I am flabbergasted.

[@justaguy4575]

only 52??????

[@youcanletgox3]

$20 a week allowance?! All I got was $1 for lunch in middle school and a “good luck!” Little Scott was living like a king!

[@ascendedcat260]

I got whatever coins were dropped on the ground

[@mrserket1264]

Imagine having an allowance

[@CharleyMarlowe]

Wait allowance is real?

[@Steve_Johnson_]

Charley Marlowe: Piratecoric Voice Actor No, it's a myth used to trick kids into doing cheap manual labour.

[@YoDz-117]

@@mrserket1264 ya that’s what happens when you have parents who care

[@OrangeDied]

"I live in Ohio, your hobby was either that or getting shot." As an Ohioan, this is not true at all. You can also get diseases in the corn fields.

[@Spewa-em8cm]

I think every Ohioan had that one cornfield that all the neighborhood kids would go play in, bonus points if it was infested with stinkbugs and bullet casings.

[@seantaft3853]

You also forgot drug addiction. Whatever drug depends on what part of the state.

[@Social_Requirments]

@@seantaft3853 good ol Ashtabula

[@richardgibson8403]

@Spewa2233 wtf why didn’t I get corn

[@lilylopnco]

As a North Dakotan, I've already done at least two of these things

[@fx0001]

I remember my local Five Below being stocked with Infinite Warfare for $5, when Gamestop was buying used ones for $10, I bought $55 + tax worth and got back around $110

[@GenerationZ313]

I remember whe Dollarama here in Canada had a copy of NBA Baller Beats on Xbox 360 for $3 which traded in for $7. I only found out about it after seeing a KZbin video on it. I wished I grabbed more copies when they were more plentiful but you know hindsight is 20/20.

[@VonSnuggles1412]

My five below has had several copies of destiny 2 for like a year now

[@RedsHitpostMedia]

@@VonSnuggles1412 Bestbuy straight up gave me a copy of Destiny 2 PS4 when i bought Spiderman from them i didnt want it but free is free. Months before it went completely free

[@zooning-6843]

That’s epic abuse of supply and demand right there. Hats off to you sir.

[@kitsunez]

Back in the day when gamecube was still a thing dollar general sold gamecube controllera....can you guess how much money i made?

[@PerryMason123]

I worked at a Pathmark from 2011-2014. At some point we landed a Gamecube copy of The Urbz and nobody ever bought it, I think it somehow got in with an order of crappy DVDs we sold in one aisle. It even got marked down over 50% off and still nobody bought it. It was like 2013 and we were trying to sell one single Gamecube game. The Wii U was brand new by then.

[@KoopaKid660]

Bet it costs more now than your stores original price since Gamecube stuff skyrocketed in price recently.

[@PerryMason123]

@@KoopaKid660 It was a grocery store, we had no business pricing videogames. It's $25 now at most but I think it was like $5-$10 at most. This was like 2013.

[@GregTurismo]

$20 a week?! I can’t even imagine. That sounds like paradise.

[@takerdust]

$1,000 a year doesn't sound bad. Not counting birthday/Christmas money from relatives.

[@n646n]

Inflation.

[@fnerXVI]

I got a $5 a week allowance as a wee lad. Weekend Pokemon cards

[@SuperSireBoyYT]

ehh?

[@ThatGuy-dp5ni]

Ikr

[@cosmiclonk7518]

"whatever Walmart doesn't eat five below will clean its plate" This video is gold

[@deathstrike]

And the table scraps from Five Below will trickle down to the Dollar Tree where they will be sold in trial size packets for $1.25.

[@Cobalt985]

Every video by Scott is gold

[@PermaJeff]

yeah, Scott is the literal best.

[@BrendanJSmith]

Scott is a wordsmith

[@Zyphon]

Dollar Tree used to sell Wii accessories. Wiimotes wouldn’t even fit in some of them 🙃

[@MicahDeez]

The best thing near a console at a dollar tree for me would be like a single skylander figure

[@Thatguy-kg3tz]

I’ll stick with Donald Duck lemonade

[@MicahDeez]

@@Thatguy-kg3tz speak for yourself i would rather get that “authentic casino played cards”

[@TheLastProtheanJavik]

Dollar tree dollar general five fused and created wish lol

[@benbone2559]

I remember those giant bins of steering wheels and tennis rackets.

[@Tirgo69]

Scott introducing the concept of Mighty Number 9 being a kid's only game for an extended period of time haunts me to this day

[@lilwoodiewood3457]

For the longest time my only ps2 game was sonic riders lol its a reality .. it might as well have been my only game in general.. cause I was a 7 year old and my other shit was put away and I didn't know og ps games worked on the ps2 ..

[@Tirgo69]

Okay, actually, I do have a story like this... when I got my first GBA, the only game I had for a few months was a really awful Star Wars Episode 2 game. At least I could still play my GBC games so my situation wasn't quite so dire.

[@meme-hr8pb]

@@Tirgo69lol I played that game on my nds (by flashcart I didn’t pay for it)

[@ChristopherMoom]

1:22 Scott really is dedicated to these videos, he drove all the way back to a Five Below on a legit deserted island and re-stranded himself just to record a small bit of footage

[@Noid]

I’m pretty sure you can only find Five below on the moon…

[@helloill672]

@@Noid or Florida. Florida loves them

[@MUGENanaya]

@@helloill672 why do you think the cape canaveral exists? florida is the proverbial bridge to the moon

[@helloill672]

@@MUGENanaya well, that would explain all the odd white dust everywhere

[@fox7205-d8b]

he probably recorded each part separate, like doing all the island scenes on a beach or something and then moving on. sorry I just have a knack for this thing.

[@123silverslash]

The most shocking revelation here was finding out Scott had a 20 dollar a week allowance like damn little 5th grader walk-in around with mad cash

[@jaysutter9934]

Dude I was on about 20 dollars a year

[@joshmerchant8737]

@@jaysutter9934 you guys HAD allowances?

[@claytondavis2866]

I didn’t have an allowance at all lol.

[@damianhernandez3488]

That pfp is wild

[@caterpie4546]

@@joshmerchant8737 I got a dollar a week for about 4 weeks.

[@brooksbaczkowski8382]

Can we talk about how at 5:40 he's putting down a jug of milk for just a moment? I appreciate Scott's dedication so much.

[@GuestZer0]

I half expected him to also reveal a glass of milk he was drinking. 😅

[@shawninverted8551]

No stone unturned with our man Scott

[@LNERFlyingScotsman]

It's the kind of dedication that is what I would do. Which makes Scott one of my favorite KZbinrs.

[@HighPriestFuneral]

Not just that, but the milk is a smoke screen to picking up the plug and play console in a highly smooth transition.

[@QuintaFeira12]

The true dedication was that he did the following segment, including the slap, in one shot

[@astraldreamz1556]

This is exactly how I felt going into a Poundland here in the UK. "Everything's £1 or less!!" I spent £3.50 on the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs DVD collection, and haven't been able to live it down ever since...

[@Linky]

Scott is that guy who’ll go into a dollar store & ask the employee what the Black Friday deals are.

[@EpicMel0ns]

Top comment right here

[@AmericasVideoGames]

me too

[@hgb9872]

My local dollar general still has a copy of Thor for the DS selling for $20. They keep it behind the cash register.

[@VonSnuggles1412]

I know I'd buy it, even though I'd never use it

[@thecommenter6773]

You should probably get it before it sells out and the prices online for it, even when used start rising up to be way too high. Also, the DS version is apparently actually good.

[@BlueBarracuda]

Went into my local dollar general the other day and they had twisted metal for psp up for sale for 30$. I was so confused but so tempted to buy it just cause it was funny seeing a sealed copy of a psp game nearly 17 years after the release date.

[@gododoof]

That's a Wayforward game that has some really cool giant spritework bosses that fill up both DS screens.

[@dominosantos8272]

It’s like in Zelda games when they have 3 products and you have to assume that if you’re not buying it, no one is 💀

[@WigWoo1]

Looks like Scott has Dollar Store lighting for this video

[@SteinerTheShriner]

Was looking for a comment like this. Thank you.

[@wumpyjumps]

I hope the setup gets improved soon enough

[@tobyisawesome]

Yeah this is the first verified comment I agree with.. :/

[@BM-ff6oq]

@Crow Key it feels like he’s tinkering with the lighting because of G4

[@ashsquest1235]

It's just the explosion next to him

[@thecourticaljester9152]

5:08 I don’t know why, but the tone of Scott’s voice when he says “hunny” matches that or an exhausted mom.

[@VietKevin121]

Fr

[@alejandrovallencci]

The first line, “what do you do when you wanna play games but you’re on a budget?… find a new hobby” pretty much sums up the game industry lmao

[@shreknskrubgaming7248]

Let's hope that new hobby isn't playing a TCG like Yugioh or Magic because if that's the case, they might wanna go back to scraping the bottom of the bargain bin at Walmart.

[@bluedistortions]

I dunno, gaming is pretty cheap if you get second hand systems. My philosophy is, if it was fun a few years ago, its going to be fun today.

[@JC20XX]

@@bluedistortions /r/patientgamers

[@SkyTreeStudio]

​@@bluedistortionsman that barely even happens anymore. If you want anything besides the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 get ready to pay out the ass most of the time

[@hackman669]

Plat free games online. Or buy cheap consoles for TV. 😄

[@RainbowDash3l33t]

I have worked at 2 separate Rite Aids a few years back, and both had Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings for DS. I think they just come with the store at this point.

[@Dargonhuman]

So you're saying if I buy a Rite Aid, I get a free copy of Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings for DS?! What a bargain!

[@asianjackass237]

According to Rerez thats the original version. Wii version is shovelware and PSP version is the definitive edition

[@callmetony4399]

One rite aid had a ds guitar hero so long i saw it sun bleach in real time. Almost bought it but it felt like it belonged there

[@FroggeLord]

@@callmetony4399 wonder if it's still there

[@latindoggy8059]

Guy stocking the rite aid: “this crap will never sell” Scott: enters the rite aid

[@diet_water5455]

He’ll take their entire stock

[@jmreeves89]

Obviously that condom advertising was research based, seeing as wearing ninja turtle underwear will in turn get you into a situation where condoms could be used

[@casteelant42]

Can't wait to buy the officially licensed Scot the Woz Monopoly™ from my local Dollar General!

[@BadWolf3742]

🤣🤣🤣

[@joemedlen2924]

I've worked at dollar tree and I can personally vouche that everything he pulled from the bag is something I've stocked there

[@EpicMel0ns]

When he brought up that dollar tree raised their prices to $1.25, I felt that

[@leftysr.stupid1144]

Biden did that..

[@seereebee]

@@leftysr.stupid1144 Ok buddy

[@leftysr.stupid1144]

@@seereebee I ain't your buddy, and if you wanna try to explain this one away too I'll be waiting. But we all know how you stupid lefty's operate so I don't expect much.

[@Sketch-Motion]

@@leftysr.stupid1144 The government that controls Biden did that.

[@Mitcheru_]

@@leftysr.stupid1144 ok buddy

[@PrettyGothBoi6085]

I legit watch Scott's vids because no matter how bad I'm feeling, the dude always makes me laugh.

[@RotoMiner]

I remember back in 2016 my local Five Below had a ton of Metal Gear Rising PS3 copies. I had never played a metal gear game before and was like “wtf isn’t this game supposed to be good? Why is it here?” I just assumed it was a spinoff fans didn’t like that ended up making its way to the bargain bin. I bought it for shits and giggles and oh my god it was INSANE. Genuinely has been in my top 10 ever since. Hands down best $5 I’ve ever spent.

[@bellboy7809]

Damn, sounds like an amazing 5 dollars.

[@VForceWave]

I got my copy on steam for 5 bucks too, what an amazing game. I want a sequel so bad but it will never happen

[@weightlessliving9856]

The last bit was GOLD. “I spent $105 on these games at Rite Aid and found them all on eBay for $46.” Classic.

[@lochlannjohnson732]

@Weightless living I'll stick with Fifa.

[@jofficialchannel]

I like how this came out after Dollar Tree announced they're starting to sell stuff for $1.25 starting next month

[@AHun-t]

literally 1984

[@omega-xis1943]

just got to that in the vidoe lol

[@Nobodythatyouknowlol]

Lol

[@fatalbert2055]

1:19

[@SaulTeeNutz]

This genuinely feels like 1984.

[@jonathansanchez8401]

0:34 It's been two years since this video. Scott's days are running slim

[@Ry_My_Guy]

I remember finding Kirby's Epic Yarn for $15 at a Big Lots once and I've never had the same amount of dopamine again.

[@bernebelmont1857]

I did too, but at Target And Sonic Rush for 7 How times change

[@nicholaskroeplin81]

@@bernebelmont1857 lucky

[@bernebelmont1857]

@@nicholaskroeplin81 not really, I didnt have a DS and it was like 5 or 6 years ago now all they have is tokyo mirage secessions fire emblem for 50 bucks thats the lowered price, 50 for a wiiu game nobody ever bought

[@gambitschema]

i got breath of the wild for 25 at a goodwill once. highlight of my life

[@c0n22]

Borderlands the Pre-sequal, bought it with my grandpa for 5 dollers.

[@YuriNoel7]

My local Family Dollar had Bloodborne for $5 and I was baffled that such an amazing game was there to begin with and at such a low price, obviously I capitalized on this opportunity and bought that game without a second thought. How this Family Dollar got its hands on it is still a mystery to me.

[@Justin-ul7fh]

I got Mario Maker 3DS for free... right before Mario Maker 2 came out/got announced. Don't remember that much.

[@shadowalpha34]

You find an unopened copy for five buck and I buy a used copy from game stop that doesn’t work. How the world works in mysterious ways.

[@Kuku_1411]

It was there just for you

[@matthewlong7547]

"Someone left this here so we just put a pricetag on it"

[@FreyOdyssey]

probably because of DLC, I think Bloodborne released a GOTY edition or something with all DLC included. Since then, the vanilla version plummeted in price

[@dvtye3378]

'20 dollars a week allowance' Imagine having an allowance in the first place.

[@gagne6928]

Lol he was a rich kid

[@connermoore6850]

Legit!

[@ddjsoyenby]

couldn't be me.

[@YashaAstora]

I never got an allowance as a kid, which made the fact that media always acted like EVERY kid got one really confusing to me.

[@-FutureTaken-]

@@YashaAstora same

[@dmac7403]

Honestly that Sega with 80 games and being able to play games you buy for 30 bucks is a good deal.

[@jfoxxbrowning]

I have one and it has all 3 Mortal Kombat games on it and a ton of others as well as plays my cartridges and controls wirelessly.....it's still under the tv in my living room an yes I play it

[@wakcedout]

if it connects and works well on modern tvs then its damn near a steal. play retro games on emulated hardware on modern flatscreen tvs for only 30 bucks. hell new console aimed to play multiple retro game systems in one sell way more than that. so good deal....no no no, its theft, youre literally stealing it from the store for just 30 bucks. lets hope they never realize what they have lol

[@spider-ham7140]

The roms are trash and full of glitches and audio issues

[@rdclips3647]

@@spider-ham7140 there’s a newer version which was so much better the emulation is really good and the console looks like a proper genisis

[@nido84]

​@@jfoxxbrowningOMG I HAD THE SAME ONE ...and then i lost both the controllers

[@cidredwood6170]

"We know that cause I'll be dead in three years" Judging from how dedicated Scott is to jokes I'd start making my peace

[@johngreen8344]

Don't worry. He promised to send a text message if he dies. Anyway, hell be too busy to be dead, he has to buy a chef's hat first.

[@DaSheepKiller]

@@johngreen8344 He has jury duty in 3 years, which means he can't die. If he doesn't show up, he'll go to prison!

[@bazookasniper5167]

Dont worry, he'll get cured

[@PixelHeroViish]

Hopefully his Leg Day legs he needs for Leg Days will be unharmed

[@jackiejams]

@@DaSheepKiller Yeah, he also has a party to go to in three years.

[@BugsyFoga]

“I live in Ohio, your hobby is either that or getting shot” - Scott The coming to G4TV Woz

[@bigbamaboy13]

I got mighty no 9, the.3ds chibi robo and both brand new at family dollars for 5 bucks a piece.

[@sasquachbug1300]

As someone who lived in Ohio for 3 years for college this is frighteningly accurate. The town I was in had a dollar store, our college, a gas station and little else. The day I moved in someone got shot one town over. And yes going to the dollar store was an event to us

[@e2rqey]

He forgot about heroin

[@CommanderdynoS]

Ohioan here, can confirm all we have are corn, dollar stores and pregnant teenagers

[@V1VISECT6]

Sounds like something you'd hear in an X-Play review.

[@zephgamez]

can confirm dollar generals in ohio hit different

[@bobbyshewan4229]

As a native Texan, dollar generals hit kinda hard here too

[@white_suit_nickironswordfa208]

I can also confirm they hit different, You are right my goodness sir!

[@benwashacked3350]

In Michigan your dollar generals are scum

[@flashdr1ve]

north carolina sales associate, can confirm the dollar generals are abysmal here

[@StrikerSML]

I can also confirm

[@SuperSpamGuy]

When I was a kid I was at a thrift store and I found Nicktoons Unite for the GameCube for a dollar. I got hours of playtime out of it. Good times

[@MadsAboutYou]

Nowadays just a GameCube box alone is worth like $5. So that was a pretty good deal.

[@turtlesfan44]

@@MadsAboutYouyou can get lucky occasionally but It depends on your location I see games still for a dollar all the time only problem is they never get any except maybe once a month

[@lisaurquilla6726]

11:33 As a Yo-Kai Watch fan myself, Scott saying "Yo-Kai Watch" will happily live in my head forever

[@StelarVA]

Same lol

[@brandona1140]

Hell yeah

[@joesphterry3319]

Hell yeah

[@Patterrz]

The Dollar Store console: The Christmas present no child wanted

[@jackiejams]

This was me.

[@AndyStriker13LP]

@Man of the Rain ah yes, the old slavic bootleg consoles, my favorite was the one that was also a keyboard for some reason

[@1337w334b00]

Tiger Electronics games are crazy

[@HQ_Default]

...I was easy to please as a kid.

[@billygsell3625]

Proven to be true for myself... i bought that Coleco plug and play console from Dollar General in 2005 (which i was ten years old) after the christmas parade in freezing temperatures and it's the most utterly worthless thing i ever played. I had a bootleg console in the living room (but it wasn't my Christmas present) that didn't last a year weeks later.

[@NickMix]

Scott: I had a $20 a week allowance My friend: I had a $10 a week allowance Me: You guys had allowances

[@Butter-Milk]

Yeah, I had $40 a month, and that was because I had a paper route.

[@ddjsoyenby]

me: wait i thought kids had to pay their parents............MY PARENTS OWE ME MY 30 A WEEK BACK!

[@spideyfan1990]

I was allowed to live there

[@flamingpaper7751]

I used to have $10 a week until my step brothers would visit their mom a few days a week and I would have to do all the chores and my parents stopped paying me

[@Kapeeshy]

@@spideyfan1990 lucky

[@Ursagon]

I used to work at a Five Below. The only video game we would ever have in stock was Battleborn. There was never a moment where that one spot on the shelf in the tech section didn't have a copy of Battleborn on it

[@KAIZEROFFLINE]

Scott literally never misses, every video just keeps getting better

[@Gatorade69]

He's the exact opposite of Bames Ralph and Cinemassacre.

[@aturchomicz821]

Nah the PC hate lowered the quality here a bit smh

[@KAIZEROFFLINE]

@@aturchomicz821 LMAOO fair but my mans Scott been using a Mac since day 1 PC slander is his specialty

[@Gatorade69]

@@aturchomicz821 He has always complained about PCs, and personally I complain about Vista too. I didn't want to touch it and I hated having to work on it or computers with it. Yeah, Vista was that bad. So yeah a simple home computer with Vista was probably awful.

[@fwingebritson]

he missed all over the place. Not sure why this video was recommended as it's just a rant from a spoiled brat.

[@BradTheProducer]

I worked for Atari/Infogrames during the end of their time in the US, doing customer tech support for the shovelware they were supporting at the time. Almost every caller had bought their game at the grocery store and I had to walk them through running the games in compatibility mode because they were so grievously old. Our leads also had us walk completely computer-illiterate people through editing their registry file too, which was terrifying.

[@andrewr1355]

Ah regedit. We hate you

[@JasonXtK]

What Atari game required editing the registry?

[@seanyproductions2]

I wonder if anyone recognizes Scott while he’s recording the shelves at the dollar store

[@beepfd]

former DG employee, we went on red alert, or as they called it, "Scott Alert", he's too slippery to be seen

[@Darvoth]

That would require other people to live in Ohio.

[@andrezits9723]

@@Darvoth Scott is the main attraction of Ohio, people only go there to see if they can catch him recording Dollar General shelves

[@MrCumstein]

@@andrezits9723 No, I'm afraid not.

[@maffoo9775]

0:32 Scott has less than a year left.

[@GomerJ]

I bought Tri-Force Heroes at 5 Below last year which I figured was a good price to check it out before realizing it’s practically unplayable single-player. Shockingly there were matches online but people just spammed the emotes. Plus unlocking costumes was heavily tied to playing with others and miiverse functionality that’s not accessible anymore and I started to want my $5 back.

[@funkedtoast6773]

So the only way to play the game would be locally, but if you do have 2 other friends with a 3DS, you could buy all 3 copies for $15 to play together !

[@Victini7472]

i bought a copy of sonic forces for £3 and I still felt ripped off

[@Hugelag]

At least it looks good on a shelf...

[@thedipermontshow]

@@Hugelag for sureee. But yikes.

[@thedipermontshow]

@@funkedtoast6773 I would do that, I mean, most of my friends are ps4 owners so i was that kid who own mainly portable devices.

[@monkmane2345]

5:35 i dont know why but him buying the milk made me laugh the hardest

[@mindlessbuttonmashing3670]

6:35 the knee smash got me

[@Dargonhuman]

Right? That was such a quick gag I had to go back to make sure I saw it.

[@Vintagesonic1]

Holy shit, I didn't notice that he actually bought it!

[@chriskagero4583]

The donsld duck lemonade made me laugh harder

[@mckmitte]

Scott really encapsulated what it was like when going to a store with video games was a luxury, as I kid I really only went to GameStop if my parents needed to get the vacuum repaired next door, so I grew very attached to whatever gaming scraps the grocery store sold

[@PracticalBibleStudies]

I remember getting a bunch of UMD discs for PSP at the Dollar (and a quarter) Tree several years ago. Bought them all. They are still in my storage unit.

[@nikguimont8546]

There’s just a vibe in a dollar store that I just can’t explain like both comforting and sad

[@RedMetalHead97]

Man I remember my old locally owned dollar store had Call of Duty: Ghosts on ps3 for $59.99 In 2019.

[@Florescentia02]

Dog model

[@babatunde6950]

Walmart was selling those for 5$ in 2015

[@MichaelSmith-rn2vk]

Sick Amon Amarth pfp!!

[@andreasottohansen7338]

Glad to see them taking a page out of Steam's playbook

[@shreknskrubgaming7248]

@@babatunde6950 I got a copy on Amazon for $1 back then. It was a blessing for me that everyone else hated Ghosts because I honestly had a lot of fun playing it.

[@jibbyjizz]

I used to own one of those Genesis systems from Walmart when I was younger. We were poor, and it's what kept me entertained. Thank you for reminding me about those good memories.

[@HieronymousLex]

So did I, loved that thing. Now I’m an adult and I own my very own actual Genesis and I’d rather play it than my PlayStation. In fact, I’m about to go play it right now 😁

[@mr.azizsshitposts]

@@HieronymousLex how’d it go

[@Blernster]

They only came out a few years ago you talk like it was 20 years ago

[@HieronymousLex]

@@mr.azizsshitposts it was fun 🤩 thank you 😊 I played thunder force 3

[@HieronymousLex]

@@Blernster they were out 20 years ago lol, we’re not talking about the genesis mini

[@Daizedd]

For Christmas a few years back I got the Sega Genesis plug n play as a present from my dad, it's still one of my most beloved Christmas presents to date. That Christmas my dad, my sister's and I all sat in my room playing Sonic and Mortal Kombat. No Christmas yet has topped that one

[@MochaMilk595]

A little over half a year ago, I came across a bunch of 3DS/Wii U accessories at my Dollar Tree here in California. I was able to snag a New 3DS XL carrying case with slots for the cartridges, a few silicone Wii U Gamepad covers, Zelda themed styluses and two full-on Wii Remotes. I walked out of the store only paying a little under $10.00 It felt like an actual dream, it was so surreal.

[@revupofficial]

Which wii remotes were they? Motionplus? Maybe the themed ones?

[@faizaanimran503]

Scott saying the words “Bakugan: Battle Brawlers” enlightens me in some way lol

[@haydenbrady2651]

13:35 is the timestamp

[@geekygirl2596]

I think I had that game!

[@boiwifeyasmr4U]

$20 a week allowance… well, now we know. Scott was a rich kid.

[@steveosk8s]

I got $10 a week and my parents were broke. They just didn't tell me they were broke.

[@samjetstream9]

Im middle class and 13 still i get $20 a week in allowance???

[@steveosk8s]

@UCeY1ih8IecPMxt3Fy83ypcQ with mine, it was for doing the chores without having to be told, and for having good behavior.

[@samjetstream9]

@@steveosk8s i reluctantly do work right when im told, get near perfect grades, walk the dog for most of the time im home, occasionally feel less dead inside and set the table.... Yeahhhhhh......

[@theholymage7188]

I still can't believe people got allowances?

[@maggiedean5691]

As someone who loves in Indiana the dollar store trifecta was accurate. My children always beg to go to dollar tree. They always know they'll wiggle something out of me. Usually fidgets

[@iyeetsecurity922]

_"What do you do when you wanna play games but you're on a budget?!"_ The Pirate Bay, of course.

[@normankiefer6033]

Fit girl... much better just saying

[@katsuito1083]

First game I cracked was saints row three. I thought it was impossible but the freedom I felt riding through the city was god like.

[@iyeetsecurity922]

@@katsuito1083 I can't recall for certain because it was about 30 years ago back when floppy disks were still being used. So probably Space Quest/Kings Quest/Quest for Glory or Monkey Island.

[@iyeetsecurity922]

@Vansz BS. I literally use it everyday and have been for a *very* long time.

[@iyeetsecurity922]

@Vansz I've been working on PCs for ~30 years and can vouch that the vast majority of malware/viruses/etc are incredibly easy to avoid. The problem is that the majority of users are lazy smooth brains that expect their technology to do everything on its own.

[@Daluna13]

When you realize Scott will make back every dollar he spent on these games in like a week. Props dude

[@dafeels3085]

less than that

[@caw64]

Recently me and my brother were looking in a movie section at a local Walgreens. They actually had surprisingly big name newer movies…… and also 4 copies of Norm of the North on DVD

[@evilcow2114]

I hope after you left zero copies remained.

[@AVI-lh6rm]

@@evilcow2114 when that cold brew hits

[@andrezits9723]

You meant "surprisingly big name newer movies including 4 copies of Norm of the North on DVD", right?

[@KotTheSillyOne]

Snot the Woz dies this year….

[@NotaffiliatedwithNintendo]

Oh noes

[@r34dood]

Finally, a fellow dollar store dweller, this is an underappreciated art

[@Shadamyfan-rs8xc]

In highschool i got my lunches at the dollar store.

[@YakkoWarnerTower]

Dollar Stores were extremely nostalgic back in the 90's, and 00's like Dollar Tree, and Dollar General.

[@WaterMeLoan64]

Hey fellow Dollar Store Dweller!

[@_swesters_]

dollar store dweller meet up?

[@cassiebarber4669]

I was just there today

[@supersto5459]

“One of my favorite pastimes as a kid was to go to the dollar store, I live in Ohio your hobby’s that or getting shot” As an Ohioan I feel this on a personal level

[@Fritz1105]

Two paths in life, which do you choose?

[@somerandomgamer8504]

I think that's the bullet you feel

[@supersto5459]

@@Fritz1105 probably getting shot

[@nonsmarts660]

as an upstate new yorker so do I

[@gamersforlife1294]

Same here

[@michaelpitcher2820]

I appreciate that you take a financial hit for our entertainment Scott. Honestly. Lol. I spent years pining over this sealed copy of XIII for ps2 at a local rite aide and eventually purchased it at like 20 dollars knowing I could get it cheaper online. It had just been sitting there so long and was such a good game I felt I would be doing it a disservice leaving it to rot there on the shelf lol

[@Gatorade69]

At least it was a good game. I really likes the art style and the comic panel like kills with headshots.

[@Voltmander]

that game takes me back when i went to my friend to play 18+ games because my mom didn't let me play them at home

[@liaml1694]

I thought XIII was only on Xbox and Gamecube

[@michaelpitcher2820]

@@liaml1694 also ps2

[@edzzbutbetter]

5:48 *financial hit*

[@Jan12700]

In Germany in many shops we have something called "Grabbelkisten", boxes with cheap things in them. Most in electronic stores you can get movies, music, games and other thing for just 1 to 5 Euros. There is also the "Software Pyramide" and "Green Pepper" which did just cheaper rereleases of some older games.

[@red4mario]

5:37-5:38 I LOVE that little bit where he point it out the milk and then the scene transition cuts to him putting his milk away

[@jett9631]

Seeing Scott even MENTIONING Yo-kai watch is a dream come true

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

But he's not an RPG guy, remember?

[@ClairvoyantDreams358]

It is an indescribable feeling

[@fetch7312]

Honestly the series deserves more recognition. It got branded as a Pokémon rip off and the fans have been trying to wash away the stigma

[@thegalvean2220]

Haven’t played the series since 2016, but that doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten the series I kinda feel the same way

[@mr.cereal599]

0:32 Scott is the only guy who will remember this line for a video 3 years later.

[@requiem165]

BUT WHAT ABOUT ROBO EBOLA?! THE CHEFS HAT. WHAT ABOUT THE CHEF HATTTTT

[@goalhornfanatic9449]

As an Ex-Dollar General employee, I'd like to say DG is not a dollar store, and it drives us crazy when you call it that. 😆 It USED to be one when they first opened, but as it grew and started popping up everywhere it phased out of that. Now there's just a dollar aisle.

[@RetroJack]

I'm always amused when Scott says, "When I was a kid..." I'm like, "10 years ago?"

[@Butter-Milk]

More like 6!

[@coolbrotherf127]

Like 15 years ago now.

[@Butter-Milk]

@@coolbrotherf127 Isn't he like 25 or something?

[@coolbrotherf127]

@@Butter-Milk 24. His birthday is June 1997.

[@rigistroni]

That's a whole ass decade dude. That's a long time

[@tn0wl361]

being an ohioan, I sympathize with literally every single thing in this video. Dollar General, Family Dollar, and Dollar Tree! Rite-Aid! If he was over here at the eastern side, I'm sure he would've went to an Ollie's

[@MapexMiata]

We have the exact same lineup next door to you in Pennsylvania lol I never knew how widespread Ollie's really was. Nothing like seeing the same products on shelves for a decade!

[@vigil_vigil7802]

@@MapexMiata I love ollies there’s something about it that just feels old and vintage like its cut off from the rest of progressing society forever stuck in 2007

[@morgboat744]

@@MapexMiata i was thinking the same thing being from PA myself lol.

[@spoopbagoot4628]

West Virginia has all the same stuff too lol

[@tn0wl361]

@@spoopbagoot4628 ya, northern panhandle, right? I live in jefferson county so I'm right by wv and pa, Ollie's country lol

[@jamesxnickie99]

5:37 when Scott talks about milk and cuts back to him with a gallon of milk, that gives the exact energy every episode of Xavier Renegade Angel has

[@backlogbuddies]

And frisky dingo

[@Internly]

As a born and raised Ohioan, Scott the Woz always makes my childhood feel validated

[@mata218]

The store at 3:34 having Battleborn beside a sealed gba game is such whiplash

[@Parodox306]

Damn, kinda wish you hadn't pointed that out. That's painful.

[@vinnytheplayer5500]

I remember in 2016-2018 my local Walmart had PS2 and gba games sure they were all unsold garbage but when it got to mid 2018 i saw they had only 1 PS2 game left called out of chute so i decided to buy it just so i can say I'm the last citizen in my city to buy a sealed PS2 game at Walmart and it costed 15 dollars also fun fact it took 10 minutes to purchase it because it had some old scanning labels on it so the cashier guy had to talk ask other workers for help because it wasn't scanning

[@bigtimehardline03]

1:22 the continuity of Scott's videos always gets me

[@JohnRiggs]

$20 a week!? Ballin';!

[@jaxsterminator8634]

Hah. I get 25 a week.

[@wworsey954]

That's loaded, damn

[@tomcruise7481]

You guys got allowances

[@Kratescz]

All I got was ass whoopin

[@Xenobork]

I got a rock

[@ShyDethKittenOfficial]

for anyone wondering the song Scott is playing at 10:41 is called "salvation" by rancid with Johnny Napalm at the Rat Cellar on easy difficulty

[@adams.2407]

“Why be a gamer, just DO IT.” Words of wisdom from Scott!

[@uhh_p]

V

[@uhh_p]

B

[@PixelHeroViish]

Y'know, I'm a Gamer, but maybe I should give being unemployed a try some time

[@moisesgarcia960]

I absolutely love this one! I used to work in a Dollar General and I can tell you guys the video game selection is weird. Some that I remember are the burger King Xbox 360 game, Warhammer 40k on 360, Guitar hero on 360, a Jonas brothers game on ds, El Shaddai, and some more. I actually never saw anything Scott mentioned. I live up in NorCal so I think Dollar General just sells whatever they find wherever they find it.

[@JamesTDG]

I actually own a copy of sneak King! (My dad actually ran into a bk once just to buy it, and the nearest burger King at the time was a 7 mi walk, played the shit out of sneak King back then)

[@Enzo_UwU212]

I absolutely died of laughter at “That’s why people love Adderall!”

[@deathstrike]

Shhhh!!!! Don't give doctors an outlet for their promo medicine!!! Meanwhile at the Dollar Store Adderall is going for the paltry price of 49.97 for a 500 pill bottle.

[@peridot3264]

I know right.

[@peridot3264]

@Enzo Esteruelas love the pfp

[@fahid3342]

@@deathstrike What?

[@mansmann]

@@deathstrike people are really ruining it for people with ADHD. Its not even addictive to ADHD peeps, hell, I forget to take it for a week at a time and only realize after I nearly get myself into car incidents from not being able to focus without it

[@Kale13000]

0:57 "Many times these stores would have mediocre and forgotten DVDs" *shows return of the king in the corner sacrilege

[@nonamebro0032]

6:39 made me laugh more than I'm willing to admit

[@NintendoPlayer307]

Since its an AtGame product, it was deserved

[@2013mrmike]

I often went to the dollar store with my grandma and would buy pipe cleaners and make my own action figures with them. Looking back at it now it's amazing how creative innovative kids can be.

[@onpoint4gamers]

I still remember when Toys R Us was shutting down and they had shelves upon shelves of unsold Disney Infinity 3.0 packs for 80¢! What a time to be alive!

[@UrLocalRuckaRuckaAliFan]

1:19 that's what I yelled after a fake robot replaced the Arby's manager of my local Arby's

[@schneedlemusic]

This video and gaming on a budget make me appreciate the one console with one game simplicity.

[@syntaxerror9994]

I love dollar stores! My family started a Christmas tradition where we all go to the dollar store with $20 and get stocking stuffers for each other. Got my teen a home drug test for the LOLs.

[@feministadentata4041]

That's a cool tradition! I love dollar store gifts. We play a game around Christmas with dollar store gifts where you compete for the gifts with each other. They might be silly little things, but people always get hella competitive. It's hilarious.

[@GreyWolfLeaderTW]

I hope Scott does an episode dedicated to video game rentals from old-school video rental stores (although it's gonna be hard for him to find any surviving video rental stores).

[@smelly_nut_hut2776]

Movie rental places sell movies and stuff so maybe he will, throw it into the video game rental section, I'm sure he can find some

[@ConStormENT]

Well. The Blockbuster in Bend Oregon might still be around

[@smelly_nut_hut2776]

@@ConStormENT as an Oregonian, yes we do it still exists

[@notpark3r]

everyone questioning scott’s allowance *scott laughing in only child*

[@-elthiccy-1388]

My favorite Dollar Store game was getting the steak and finding out if I survive the night

[@ddjsoyenby]

same though the hospital made me stop after my 40th stomach pump :(

[@thefunwashere6221]

I remember as a kid really wanting a Wii, but my mom didn’t want to spend so much so she improvised and got me the Sega Genesis bundle. Poured so many hours and got me into retro gaming. (Ended up getting a Wii layer though).

[@masterdoge17]

the Wii layer™️

[@Laynel8]

Make sure you don't take off that Wii layer, because you'll then be stuck with that god awful Genesis classic game console layer

[@TheMauricewright1]

Same story as me but with a PS2 👍

[@thenoseguy]

"They call me... the Wii Layer." "Why do they call you that?" "..." "Hey! HEY! What are you doing to my Wii!?!?"

[@GenerationZ313]

I really wanted a Wii in 2010 and so my mom would pt away $20 each week until we had enough. But as it turns out we didn't have to save until Christmas as one of my relative gave me and my sister a $75 gift card each. So i ended up getting the console a couple months early.

[@BulkBogan]

The most shocking thing Scott has done in his KZbin career was buy over $300 worth of bargain bin video games for a single video... Ya know, that really says a lot about the guy.

[@maryz9319]

. . . Yes, for a video.

[@BeatsbyVegas]

@@maryz9319 right within 2 weeks this will have over a million views so I think that 300 dollar investment will earn itself back many times over. Plus he can write that 300 dollars off as a business expense so it really won’t cost him anything as I imagine he is making a lot of money now. So this just helps him make more money and lower his taxes. Nothing wrong with that. Scott doesn’t run ads (by this i mean he has never had a 10-30 second sponsor spot in his videos where he is promoting a product, in over 4 years on youtube i have not seen a single one of his videos have a sponsor spot) , doesn’t make clickbait or bad content. So if he makes money because a lot of people like me genuinely enjoy all of his videos and watch them, then good for him. I hope he stays successful.

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

He can write it off as a work related expense on his taxes.

[@somerandoontheinternet4224]

He often resells the games/consoles after the videos anyway, besides that's part of comedic appeal.

[@meyadin5844]

didnt he buy a whole ass 64dd complete in box for his n64 video to only show it for like a minute

[@hankhumble3552]

1:54 I literally saw this last week at the thrift store and took a picture.