I Bought A Bunch of Random Stuff At Too Many Games 2024

Today we're taking a look at my pick ups from my recent trip to Too Many Games. I went in looking for retro games and left with a couple surprises.
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[@ishyaboy2k24]

You’re a good pal, Jon. Taking care of the drunken elderly

[@MrFaleh1129]

timestamp of him saying that ahahaha plz

[@armandomorales0921]

His name is spawn wave

[@raspberrydva9298]

Sean has a drama video today, while John is like look at these neat things I bought

[@MikeApZone]

Which is why I still sub to John and not Sean 😂 bro turned into crying and clickbait

[@raspberrydva9298]

@@MikeApZone hahaha I love em both!

[@MikeApZone]

@@raspberrydva9298 I used to! But rgt changed when his channel got bigger. Ah well.

[@MedalionDS9]

RGT had his TMG haul video up not long after TMG ended

[@raspberrydva9298]

@@MedalionDS9 I know I watched it haha

[@Martinj1417]

I love attending too many games. I have been there 4 out of the last 5 years. I missed this year because I had my son’s funeral. He also love going there. Last year he found a copy of lunar for the GBA and was super happy. RIP SAM

[@armandomorales0921]

@@Martinj1417 where is this place at? And who's Sammy?

[@Martinj1417]

@@armandomorales0921 Sam is my 21 year old son who was murdered April 29. The convention is the greater Philadelphia convention center in oaks PA

[@lemonlime8949]

That is horrible, god bless you.

[@christahphur]

Sorry for your loss. ❤

[@jarrodjob]

Too Many Games Timestamps 2:30 - 🎁 Pixelated Samus Art - Melted Plastic Beads / Ironing 3:19 -🎁 mega man x command mission Japan release 4:20 - 🎁 For kiddos - Kirby 🧸 🍴 GameCube 🧊 4:56 - R Racing Revolution - x Pac Man Vs (pack in) 5:59 - Pikmin 6:53 - Pokemon Channel 7:58 - Time Splitters 2 8:44 - Yu Gi Oh - Falsebound Kingdom 9:57 - Need for Speed Underground - Players Choice 10:48 - ShadowBoxes - 11:15 - Zelda: A Link to the Past 12:08 - MegaMan x3 For future vids 13:30 - PS4 Slim 14:38 - Summary

[@nfmjcn2687]

I’m not kidding seeing flasebound kingdom on the cover of a video is such a great feeling. Fucking love this game and play it still! Top 3 nostalgic game for me, yugioh back in the day was so fun for me as a kid in elementary and middle school. This game was different from a lot of them

[@YaBoiUnit]

It's cool to hear that Kirby is the house mascot lol

[@armandomorales0921]

Kirby fully loaded

[@NappaAbridged]

It was so nice meeting you there! I was in the Hawaiian shirt! Thank you for taking photos with me!

[@just_delightful]

You are a tender person.

[@armandomorales0921]

@@NappaAbridged hopefully you called him Spawn Wave!

[@ItsBeenTooLong]

That yugioh falsebound kingdom is goated!!!!! I just enjoy the monster collection feature, recruiting characters and strategizing how to move your teams. I can see most people not liking it cause the battle system is a bit basic

[@timelymirror7826]

I had it before

[@mikemurray8682]

I'm actually replaying it right now. Love that game.

[@ItsBeenTooLong]

@@mikemurray8682 bro im about to join you, i just don’t have a save so those first few chapters are going to be annoying to get stronger

[@armandomorales0921]

​@@ItsBeenTooLongI don't like the fact it's not a traditional Yugioh game

[@Regnier575]

Was such a good game. Loved duelists of the roses and the one where you move pieces on the board too

[@MedalionDS9]

Shadowbox Video game scenes look amazing, I am gonna check this out

[@jimmyvau]

If you scan the QR code it opens up a website that plays an AR version of the scene. It's pretty neat. I paused the video and scanned it and it played the scene on the shadow box in the video.

[@martinholden9686]

I had r racing Evo with the PAC man disc. I actually got it back in the day for the PAC man disc. It's a multiplayer game where 1 player plays on the GBA via a link cable as PAC man who can see the whole maze while 3 others played as the ghosts with a limited view around them on the TV screen who all chase him.

[@joshuac1364]

That's really impressive for the tech back in the day. Nintendo doing it again!

[@Fester1500]

Amazing to see how large this convention has gotten. I went four years straight, both before and after the rebranding. Snagged me a copy of one of my favorite Sega Saturn game the last year, Off-Road Interceptor in it's case! Probably spent way too much on it but I couldn't resist.

[@grahf4215]

I love Yu Gi Oh: The Falsebound Kingdom. I always bring it up in recommendations whenever I can. It's a weird real time tower defense with turn based battles game. You start by setting up your "marshals" with a team of up to three monsters based on Yu Gi Oh cards. You'll then begin a campaign where you have a goal to either beat everyone or to capture a certain base. You'll start in your base and you'll send your marshals out to capture other bases. The second monster is the one that will be displayed on screen. This will affect walking speed and the size of your contact radius. There's also a terrain bonus. If you bump into an enemy marshal or are ambushed by monsters you'll switch to a turn based battle screen. There you'll have a limited amount of moves for each monster based on their star levels. The higher the star levels, the more moves you'll have each battle. The battle ends when a team is wiped out or no more moves can be made. In which case there's also a scoring system that will determine the winner. You gain experience for winning battles for the monsters and the marshals. Stats and star levels go up for monsters and they'll learn special attacks are certain levels depending on the monster. You can also unlock unite attacks between certain monsters as well. The marshals can gain passives as levels increase. The monsters and marshals have colors associated with them. It's best to try and match the colors. However constant fighting will begin to change the colors to match. You can equip each monster with up to three items. Armor, weapons or consumable items. Some items can even "evolve" a monster into a stronger monster. Some monsters have equipment only they can use that will boost their attack by a ton or will unlock special attacks. There's an item that can even fuse your monsters together in battle to form a new monster but it's only for that battle. When you take over bases, you can spend money to unlock up to two facilities. Tower defenses, extra healing, stores and so on. Each base's store has different stock and you might have to go out of your way to find something good. These items are expensive though and money is difficult to come by. However you can input the Konami Code at any time while on a map to gain money. But you'll have to do it repeatedly. There's a ton of time to kill anyway so might as well just keep doing it. The whole game works as a new game plus. In that after you beat one character's story, you can take all the monsters, items and levels you gained and start the other story. Marshals don't carry over though. Once you do the second, a third story will open up. You'll need to do this to get all the monsters as some you only get in one route and their partner in another. Or you'll want to regain monsters you upgraded previously. The best thing is that the enemies will scale to you so you'll always have a challenge. The scoring system for battles is a tad unfair at time. You can kill two enemies and knock the third down to one hit point while taking no damage yourself and still manage to lose the battle due to the score. If you miss to many times for instance. A neat trick is to know which monsters fuse and put them on a team equipped with the fusion items. When they're down to one star, fuse them together and you'll have a new monster with a bunch of stars to continue the battle and you'll gain a lot of points. Admittedly it's slow and plodding though and is kinda dull to look at. But I really enjoyed the battle system in it. There's two similar games on the PS2. Similar in the fact that they have nothing to do with the actual card game or even the dice spin off game. Capsule Monster Coliseum and Duelist of the Roses. Capsule Monster Coliseum is a tactical turn based RPG. The monsters move similar to chess pieces in that they each have their own moment style instead of just moving them in any spot in their movement range. It also scales as you keep replaying. Duelist of the Roses is difficult to explain. It's card based in general but not in a "normal" way. It's map based again and you'll have a "deck master" which is a monster you'll set as it. You'll lay cards out on the map that you can move around, even magic and trap cards. The point is the move along the map and beat the opponent. The map squares each have something terrain effects. It's been a while since I played that one though. They're an interesting trio of games. Games before and since have all been based on one of the two Yu Gi Oh associated games (cards or dice) in some way. Some of the earlier games did have different takes on the card game but they still played mostly the same. The rest are just simulators of some sort. But that trio of games (Duelist of the Roses, Capsule Monster Coliseum and The Falsebound Kingdom) were great and quite different. Most probably passed on them thinking they were just more card game simulators of some sort and they weren't. They were different styles of turn based RPGs.

[@dbfuture4881]

Dude Yu-Gi-Oh is awesome I played the PS1 and PS2 but not the GameCube one it sounds fun the way you're explaining it

[@grahf4215]

@@dbfuture4881 It was fun as far as I'm concerned. I've played through all three stories a few times. It's just this weird mix of play styles that surprisingly went well together. It was fun gathering all the monster pairs. There were three BEWDs and each had their own name. They had a unite attack as well as the fusion, obviously. The Gemini Elves were split up into two separate named monsters that have to be recruited separately and have a unite attack. The Swamp and Lava Battleguards are recruited separately and have a unite attack. Moisture Creature is the most difficult monster to obtain and sucks as it will only ever have like 3 stars total due to how "powerful" a card it was in real life. In this game, the lower the average attack and defense it had as a real card, the higher the stars it had for moves in this game. The higher the average attack and defense it had as a card, the less stars it gets but they're also more powerful in general. It wasn't that bad of a tradeoff. I wish Konami made more games like this. I wish Konami made more games in general. They need to stop sitting on their hands and release Suikoden 1 & 2 HD already. I wouldn't even mind if they made another of those Yu Gi Oh games with the deck limits again. They made a bunch of them on the GBA but then stopped. That era in gaming is when they stopped making the Yu Gi Oh video games that were more than just standard card game simulators.

[@SamPeiffer]

I was unable to attend this year. But my friend Matt was able to meet you and the other Spawncast members at the panel. He mentioned the wait time and he was glad he waited! Very cool of all of you to do that.

[@Mysticalturkey]

Im glad i got to meet you the years i worked for TMG. Always a pleasure to have you. 2018/2019 defender here. By far a favorite convention of mine.

[@ryanknight5276]

I hooked ya up with the pokemon channel and pikmin at my friends booth. If you’re ever in NJ check em out! Kill screen games in Asbury park

[@sshuraii]

Thank you for speaking to me in person. It was my birthday that Saturday and it meant a lot to me that I was able to take a picture with you. I was unfortunately sweaty and worn out by that point. So I’ll be sure to make it back next year.

[@DP3com]

Time Splitters 2 for the win. I still own my GCN copy. Sunk in LOTS of hours playing it with my younger sibling. Absolute classic.

[@TheCoolerJess]

It was awesome to see y'all again and I'm happy y'all were able to sign my poster!

[@RetroNirvanaGaming]

I also went to Too Many Games. Picked up a Watermelon N64 Funtastic Console! Very happy with it! Picked up a lot of great Gamecube games aswell! Great finds!

[@PacMaster]

Jon to answer your question about the R Racing Evolution game and Pac-Man Vs. Back in 2003 or so to promote the GameCube and GBA connectivity with each other, Nintendo partnered with Namco to create Pac-Man Vs. a game which required the GBA and Link cable to promote the feature. The game came bundled with one of the three following Namco titles: Pac-Man World 2 (The most common way to find Pac-Man Vs. as the Player's Choice edition of Pac-Man World 2 came with the game as a double pack), I-Ninja, and R Racing Evolution. Fun Fact: Pac-Man VS. is narrated by the voice of Mario, Charles Martinet.

[@armandomorales0921]

@@PacMaster his name is spawn wave

[@RockstarMazy]

that live spawncast y'all did there was pretty good bro. kudos to you all.

[@res1dentgearsol1d]

The “mega Samus” was made from pearler beads! Real fun stuff if you like pixel art, and easy too!

[@AndrewO83]

The artwork with the depth is super clean. I think I love these over the games. Great picks too.

[@Tjoeb123]

Kirby's the big one in your house....Well I guess that explains why we see your Hoshi no Kabii (or Kirby of the Stars; it's the Japanese name) shirt in News Wave.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

90 degree heat? I usually have blizzards at my conventions. 4:30 I bet my sister would want that.

[@noeldoesthings]

I bought R: Racing a couple of years ago because of Pac-Man VS. haha. I'm not sure how I discovered them being together I vaguely remember looking up Pac-Man VS. and R: Racing popped up. I haven't played it much, but it's an ok racing game

[@tripandfall2379]

I have the Ridge Racer Pac Man game. RR is pretty bad, but playing PMVS with a GBA and 3 controllers is one of the best local multiplayer experiences I've ever had.

[@WeavePap]

It was great getting to meet you and the rest of the Spawncast! I didn't get too many games that are noteworthy, just a lot of stuff that I have had on my list of games to buy for a few years now. Also picked up a bunch of Nintendo Power Magazines. Hope to see you again next year!

[@chrisvw352]

I love following all of the Spawn Cast follow up videos. That Patreon video showing up in my inbox was a pleasant surprise.

[@TailwindZ]

It was good to see you there! Sad to see you not be able to see the Elestrals booth but I'm glad you had a good time regardless! Let me know when you have time to chat about what we discussed (music stuff for your channel)

[@bogbupog]

Oh dang, sounds like it was a good time despite the weather

[@RedKoopaShells]

The shadowbox portraits were absolutely the best art pieces imo. I bought a Yoshi's Island one for my future nursery at my house.

[@komborekt7016]

A pair of glasses and a PS3 home screen away from being Classic SpawnWave ;]

[@TimeSorceror]

I have very fond memories of The Falsebound Kingdom. I don't think it holds up to contemporary titles, but I had a great amount of fun with it as a kid.

[@crabbuckets7506]

Ohhhh too many people wanted to see you. What a predicament 😂

[@RazzRG]

yu gi oh the falsebound kingdom Is such a gem of a game. It's like yu gi oh and final fantasy had a love child. And R: Racing Evolution is such a good sim racer with a twist of arcade mixed in. It's also a ridge racer spin off. That's what the R stands for. Ridge.

[@armandomorales0921]

If only that Yugioh game played like GBA versions

[@Lucario1121]

Game is nothing like Final Fantasy 😅 if anything it's more like Starcraft

[@felony211662]

It seemed like an awesome turnout and i hope you enjoy continued success. I truly value your videos

[@jorgegutierrezabdo]

I like those shadow boxes, need to look for them online

[@BrooklynMenace]

I had a great time at Too Many Games this year. It was awesome watching you guys try out Glens Sinden Shotgun over at his booth. Looking forward to the next one 🍻

[@Alexander-sr5fg]

Falsebound Kingdom is such a fun game!!! So was Timesplitters 2, a couple of my faves on the Gamecube!

[@cyxceven]

X3 is the GOAT! Blizzard Buffalo's theme still gives me goosebumps. Oh hey, I scanned that QR code, and it played a clip of the boss fight overlaid on top of the shadowbox. That's pretty cool.

[@tha1neo418]

Glad you had a blast at Too Many Games Jon! A few of my friends and coworkers went to the Southeast Game Exchange in Greenville, SC; your photo of your event looked very similar to our event. I ended up picking up one of those beaded Major’s Mask items, similar to your gifted Metroid/Mega-Man beaded item. Sucks both events happen around the same time, else I’d recommend you attending ours next year; Phoenix Resale was there though, which was awesome!!

[@armandomorales0921]

@@tha1neo418 his name is Spawn wave. Not Jon.

[@jesusesquivelgarcia]

R racing is a really cool racing game. Basically, in the beginning your character is a girl that is an ambulance Driver and she rest a wounded racing guy. And she got to the hospital extremely fast and the guy that was inside the ambulance took notice of how fast she got there and how she drove and basically offered her a spot in the racing circuit. That’s pretty much kayak how the story is and you just start racing and you do have a rival. Overall, it’s a great game in my opinion I still got my original copy from back in the day.

[@Lucario1121]

8:50 "This guy went around the booth looking for Yu-Gi-Oh! cards and got shot down, 80% of the time" oof glad I wasn't the only one, well I wasn't looking for cards per say but yeah there were so many booths I noticed that just had Pokemon cards just cause. Sad part is I'm sure they have those there mostly for collectors over actual competitive players.

[@UNxBLEExVABLE]

False bound kingdom is one of my favorite games from game cube, great grab Jon

[@blizmo2]

Happy Sunday 😎 A Link to the Past Shadowbox 👌 All time great game

[@pazzoeo]

Oh trust me, the PS4 slim in the summer heat is not silent at all lol, can personally confirm since I still use it, although the rest of the year it is pretty quiet

[@RareRootie]

YOU WENT TO TOO MANY GAMES?! OMG MY FRIEND WAS THERE! !!! imma just have to go next year because I would have LOVED to meet you spawn wave you are my idol!

[@MedalionDS9]

Yo that Mega Samus Man is dope

[@ridge_r4cer]

Those shadowboxes are incredible!

[@Stuarts_youtubepage]

I was on the floor and I spotted you and Josie. I didn’t go up and greet because I was anxious. But I also didn’t know you guys were doing a meet and greet later.

[@0dn4mr4]

Those shadow boxes really have picked my interest, look amazing

[@Kaas465]

"In the North East..." Ah yes... Finland. Americans are tiring.

[@williamscsharpwalkthroughs4316]

Awesome!

[@b3lial]

That's awesome Jon. I remember when trying to meet AVGN (James) in LA. Me and a friend waited for 3 hours to keep on getting pushed back to the end of the line by one of the organizers (James wife). After letting about 6 people in front of of us, we gave up and left home. Glad to hear there's some good KZbinrs meeting their fans.

[@ssj3fox]

The shadowboxes give me 3DS vibes

[@RAXtheGREAT]

pop that purple foam on mannnnn lol do itttttt

[@Hako_exe]

I am very excited to go to too many games next year. Been getting into retro games again and I’m excited to see what they have!

[@hanimahoui8339]

Never thought to see John picking up one of the most underrated racing games ever with R-Racing Evolution. Capitel B Based. PS: This is basically a spin-off of Ridge Racer with licenced cars and tracks.

[@armandomorales0921]

@@hanimahoui8339 his name is spawn wave. Not John.

[@hanimahoui8339]

@@armandomorales0921 As If I didn't knew the name of a channel that I already follow for 3 years now. Thanks anyways tho

[@cam86191]

Jon will you ever do a game room tour to see all this stuff you pick up displayed?

[@megamanfan0328]

X3 is my favorite game in the X series, and I don't even care about Zero a lot, if I'm being honest.

[@josephferrel3413]

I am glad you had a good time.

[@amelialacroixch8283]

R:Racing Evolution is like a branded car spinoff of ridge racer series. Was a little too arcade like for people wanting the driving simulation game genre. Good find though!

[@talon12020]

I have to ask, how do you remove those GameCube discs from the case so easily? I have never been able to pull one off that spindle as effortlessly as you.

[@Lucario1121]

I saw Spawnwave holding something Yu-Gi-Oh and immediately clicked

[@LWAllen]

Went to my first game con this year. Got Suikoden and Yakuza Dead Souls. Among other whatever.

[@Harerazer]

Congrats on Falsebound Kingdom. The Yugioh games on Gamecube are all great fun especially Capsule Monsters.

[@Dcramer710]

The Samus is made of diamond dots

[@SeaSlug]

they gave away pac man vs for free at gamestops back in the day. also I got pac man vs from pacman world. i didn't know they also gave away pac man vs with other games. if you want to play pac man vs without the gba link cable they have it on switch as well but you have to use two switch systems. wish they would bring back some of the nintendo lan games that way.

[@MedalionDS9]

Hulk Hogan entrance theme will not be denied

[@armandomorales0921]

Hukster!

[@MedalionDS9]

@@armandomorales0921 If you cannot articulate your thoughts why you make such accusations, you will be ignored.

[@tombystander]

Duelists of the roses and dark duel stories were bsolute god tier as a kid

[@LordIronFish28]

you made out like a bandit.

[@RobMost]

Falsebound kingdom is fun, one of my favourites from my childhood. Duelist of the roses is fun too btw, but get a few cards from codes to start, because without cheating it's absolutely miserable. The dice one you mean is Dungeon Dice monsters, which is fun, but a bit empty/not much to do.

[@armandomorales0921]

Dungeon dice monsters for the GBA is boring

[@RobMost]

@@armandomorales0921 I enjoyed the concept, but there was no challenge or story. It was too easy to trap the opponent by summoning low lvl mosters and making it hard for them to summon.

[@masterx1907]

Duelist of the roses is amazing!!!!

[@justanbaca2323]

Falsebound kingdom 👏

[@dzill95]

I’m going to try to go next yr. Completely missed it this year

[@walkerthewastelander964]

I got so many good games there this year.

[@TheOtakuVerse92]

Saw Falsebound Kingdom and has to click!

[@metaknightguyWII]

R racing is ridge racer

[@timelymirror7826]

with licensed cars

[@AnthonySmith-bj9mo]

hi Spawn Wave

[@armandomorales0921]

That's his real name! Good job!

[@peetja12]

Falsebound kingdom is amazing I love that game!

[@DubstepKirby]

Where can I find a so cal video game convention schedule?

[@Regnier575]

Yugioh falsebound kingsom was awesome

[@dragonitesr_ttv685]

i loved that yugioh game on the gamecube

[@solonepeon5805]

SONY news, they are releasing a crypto exchange in Japan. Don't know how well it will go, but they are going all in.

[@SaintKnight42]

Maybe do a collaboration with Reggie and MJR

[@chaikagaz]

So basically a flea market for nerds

[@CalebToroReviewsProductions]

the only thing i mostly got was GameCube games as well and gba games and one DS Game

[@kara4971]

The kiddos will love Pokémon channel!!

[@tadams587]

I NEED a remaster and/or remake of yu-gi-oh falsebound kingdom for the Nintendo Switch or better yet its successor console.

[@KirillNeko]

"PS4.....slim.....silent...." Bruh....

[@neonhenry]

can you share the vendor who sold you that Link to the Past shadow box?

[@TdogGaming_Vods]

yugioh falsebound kingdom is the GOAT! same with duelist of the roses

[@richman555]

Maybe we will have a Switch 2 by Too Many Games 2025?

[@fjod1689]

New Yugi Oh is not whhat it used to be

[@LelloGarolfo-xl2lv]

Nice

[@JamJim]

0:39

[@k.ms.perkins8644]

Hi 👋👋👋👋👋👋 spawn Wave 🌊🌊🌊🌊

[@plufim]

Had R Racing back in the day. Played pacman vs 10 times more than the actual R Racing game lol. The R Racing game is decent, and has a very dumb CG intro thats worth watching.

[@Tyler-ml6ip]

Show us your Yu-Gi-Oh collection