Harry Potter Video Games

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Three, up, two across, tap that play button three times,
and walk through the archway into Dialogue Ali. Hello, and

(00:22):
welcome to Dialogue Ali, the Fisher Potter Collector podcast, where
we talk about Harry Potter books and book translations and
all other things magical.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm Melanie, I'm Eric, and I'm Carly. Carly sounds a
little different. Not today.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
No, we have our friend Johnny recording with us. Carly's
on like a little euro vacation right now, which is
so awesome, and she's getting all the pretty books while
she's over there. So we have Johnny recording with us today. Johnny,
have your quarter with us.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
You have, but like not in a bit.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
No, it's been a while. Maybe season two, I don't know.
And I was with you and Carly, not Eric.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Yeah, because when Johnny was on, I was at the
Wizarding World in Orlando.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh my gosh. Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, I get well plugged in sometimes, just like hey,
come come fill a spot.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
And I and you talked about Funk.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
I did, Yeah, it was that long ago. I did
like a whole collector's primer on Funk Coo Pops, a
thing I don't even enjoy, but I do know about collecting.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
I'm done to Funko Pops. That's the worst I had
to stop.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
I got defeated and I stopped. And I don't know
how I feel about it. They're they're in my living room.
They look cool. What I have I don't know. That's
that's where I'm out at them. But Johnny has been
like a member of our discord from the very beginning.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
In fact, he is.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
I feel like what we could say is like the
architect of our discord, which has been the coolest thing.
And Johnny, we're like always so crazy thankful for like
how you've helped our platform kind of like take off,
and how our discord has grown into what it is.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
It is just really cool. So it's cool to have
you on with us.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Thanks for having me on. Always happy to help, you know.
Glad you guys got off of those ig chats if
anyone still remembers those, and onto a place where I
can listen to you, not live. That's you know, in
my car and stuff. Nice.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, bad.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
And for those of you that don't know, Johnny is
also a collector and he has Harry Potter books in
his house. But Johnny's main thing is collecting video game.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
That is true.

Speaker 5 (02:47):
Yes, I don't know what. I don't know why he
said it.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Like video games, yeah, all right, video game right.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Yeah, But just briefly, Johnny like, what what what are
your main jams when you collect games?

Speaker 5 (03:00):
What are you?

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Okay? So all of them pretty much. I'm a big collector.
I collect sets. It's not the right way to collect.
I don't advocate that. I have a podcast where I
talk all about that, and you can hear all about
game collecting from me and that in that ben. But
I also love to talk to other collectors. In fact,
one of the first things I ever did was talk
to Carly about collecting and how book collecting and game
collecting is similar. And I think we'll touch a little

(03:22):
on that. But if you want to know, like my
main jams, it's like mainly sets, old retro sets, but
I have new stuff. So I have stuff from you know, Atari, Commodore,
sixty four PC, eighty eight, Japanese systems, all the way
to switch to games sitting in the living room, so
all over them. I have over ten thousand games and
we have over a thousand Harry Potter books souse. My

(03:43):
wife is a big translation collector, as well, so we
got a lot of books and we've got a lot
of games.

Speaker 5 (03:50):
That's awesome, awesome, love it.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
So if you couldn't tell, today we're going to be
talking about Harry Potter video game collecting, and we'll talk
a bit about like the similarities between book collecting and
all of the things that like go into game collecting.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
What these video games are. I know, like Eric and
I both.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Play a few of them, so we'll be able to
like chime in here and there as much as we can,
but definitely can relate on how it is similar to
book collecting, which is which is really cool. So this
episode is seats in six, episode two. I can't still
can't believe that we're up to season six. It's like

(04:37):
absolutely wild. If you're new to our podcast, Yeah, we
talk about Harry Potter stuff. We talk about Harry Potter books.
We talk about collecting mostly like translations of Harry Potter
books and the books from all over the world, which
is really cool. So today we're going to be talking
about all sorts of games and stuff, which is really key.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Just I mean, first we just have we have.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Like one little like nibblet of news and then we're
gonna just jump right into it.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
So take it away, Eric, it's going to be a
bumpy ride. No, it's not. That's that's a Harry Potter quote.
Get it. Take it away, Ern, it's going to be
a bumpy ride.

Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yeah, I get it.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
No one reacted. I was like, don't have to explain
it to you people.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
No, what I was gonna say, it's not really that
bumpy because there's like one major news news thing that
we want to talk about and it's again relating to
what we discussed more in depth last episodes. So if
you missed it, last episode, we talked a lot about
the dramatized audiobooks that are coming out on Audible, and

(06:11):
we just essentially talked about how excited we were for them.
And at the time, some of the voice casts had
been announced, but since that recording, they've announced even more people.
And I know, like when I saw the cast listing,
I was really excited, but Melanie was like even more excited.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
So we got some big names.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Melanie, Uh yeah, And don't be mad at me for
saying what I'm going to say, because I'm going to
refer to them as their Game of Thrones characters because
we have a bunch of Game of Thrones characters doing
these audios, which.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
And Kiera Knightley Parts of the Caribbean Kiera Knightley.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
No, I know Kiera Knightley, but like I'm excited for
like John Snow Hello. So I'm trying to look. I
want to make sure that I get like all of
the casting completely right. Pretty sure John Snow is going
to be Lockhart, Ramsey Bolton is gonna be Loopin', which
is unbelievable. His voice is so iconic, So I'm absolutely.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Pumped for that. Kier Knightley was Cassa's McGonagall.

Speaker 5 (07:18):
Yes, I thought she was umbrage.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Is it? Oh, it is umbrage.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
You're right, I think it's umbrage.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
No, I think you're right. Hold on, I'm trying to
look at like the announcement.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
For I'm pretty sure it's umbrage because I remember, like
when I saw kier Knightley, I was like, oh, she
was a babe and Pirates of the Caribbean, and then
I was like, who's she gonna play? I looked it
was like the most unbabe character in the.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Whole so funny, all right, So some that we already knew.
We knew Hugh Laurie for Dumbledore, which I'm absolutely stoked about.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
So cool.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Kier Knightley is umbrage. We did get Kit Carington as Lockhart.
I'm absolutely stoked for the girl who is your grade
Joy in Game of Thrones is also in I'm pretty
sure she's gonna be Tonks, absolutely like unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Let me see who else? Oh my god, what's his
face is in it?

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Now?

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Too? God?

Speaker 1 (08:27):
I just saw all of this like in an article,
So like now I'm looking for the article that I
saw because I was so excited, mostly for like all
the Game of Thrones people, because like this is what
they're doing with everything now, like they're just doing Harry
Potter books.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
I think it's a it's an interesting way to get
the Game of Thrones people back into doing something very
prominent without people being like, hey, it's John snow because like,
you know, it's the same thing that like Daniel Radcliffe
and Rupert Antonema Watson all that got into when they
were in Harry Potter movies and then they tried to

(09:03):
do something else and it's just like, hey, it's Harry
Potter and you're like, no, I can do other stuff too,
you know, and that's I feel like the Game of
Throne stuff was so hyped. And I know that other
people like Peter Danklish and stuff, they've done other things.
It's not like they've just fallen off the planet with
Game of Thrones, but I think they had such a
recognizable appearance and personality, like it's almost like they're the

(09:27):
same person. Like you even said, I'm going to refer
to them by their Game of Thrones names.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
I know, sorry, and I'm pretty sure this is a
good way to do it.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
I'm getting like some of these mixed up because I,
like I said, I like refer to like this one article. Okay,
so Gemma Whalen, who was your grade joy is actually
Professor Sprout, which I think is awesome, So that's very cool.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
We also have.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Simon peg is Arthur Weasley, which is fantastic. I think
is such a cool one. And probably one of the
other very iconic ones is James McAvoy is Matti Moody.
So now, okay, so James mc I'm like, you guys,
I don't want to say okay, right.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Also, I'm like Splice, like, who was phenomenal in that
movie is like one of my absolute favorites. So, like,
this cast is unbelievable. It's like a movie cast. I
feel like I'm almost more excited for the audiobooks than
i am for the HBO show now because it's just
gonna be unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
I'm so pumped.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Well, now we have Nick Frost and Simon Pegg both
in Harry Potter, but not together, which is a mistake.
But he's like perfect casting for Arthur. So I maybe
I'll bring him over for the series because unless I've
alread announced that, because that would be really good.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
I mean, Tonnie, what's your what's your what's your vibe
about the dramatized audiobook?

Speaker 5 (11:04):
Are you a big audiobook person as your wife been a.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Huge audiobook person? All it's like all I do. I
drive in audiobooks. You know. I've listened to the Harry
Potter audiobooks quite a bit. And that's kind of a
problem because I really like Jim Dale. I liked when
I read Harry Potter.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yeah, I hear.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Jim Dale in my head. It's not even my voice.
It's just Jim Dale doing all the voices and the minute.
It's not that I'm just like, what what am I
listening to? Like, I can't listen to Stephen Frye. People
are like, oh, Stephen Fry's great, and I'm like, no,
he's just not. He's not it. I've been listening to
the audiobooks since the beginning too, since I first started
these books back on like actual cassettes in my car.

(11:44):
So yeah, oh my.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Gosh, did you listen to our last episode?

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Because that's literally exactly the same thing that I said,
Like I said, I listen. I listened to him on
cassettes when I was a little kid. So yeah, audiobooks
are just so nostalgic. I'm excited. I feel like it's
the same way like if they recreate a movie, you
have to view them as like two different mediums, right,

(12:08):
Like if you get a movie that was made however
many years ago and they refilmed the movie. The same way,
we're kind of looking at the Harry Potter TV Show
versus the movies, like we're trying to treat them as
two separate entities.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Like it's almost like we have to treat the.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Jim Dale original audio books as complete separate entity from
these dramatized ones it's like two separate mediums almost, so.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
It's totally different. And like if you have Lord of
the Rings books, like there's a bunch of audio dramatizations
of Lord of the Rings and a bunch of different readers.
The most recent one is Oh God, what's his name?
I played Golham just read them and I yeaes and
those were really good.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Just listen to those two.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
They were really good. He did a great job, you know,
Like I like the classic reading. I like the dramatization.
I can get over that. But I've listened to Harry
Potter so many times, like I said, because Jim Dale
lives in my brain as these characters even more than
the movies. It's hard because you spend so much more
time with the books and the audiobooks and I than
I do the movies. Like if you give, if I

(13:12):
had to kill one save one like audiobook movies and
or the series, I would. I would kill those so
easily to keep the audiobooks. So it's going to be
it's going to be hard for me to I'm excited
to hear it. I'm trying to keep an open mind,
but it it is an uphill battle. And I understand
all of my biases are gonna be there. I'm gonna

(13:33):
listen to it. I'm gonna do it in good faith.
Like I it's gonna be way easier for me to
watch the series and forget about the movies, because the
movies are are fine. I understand everyone grew up with them,
but they were just like, I don't know, visual representations,
like kind of like, hey, if you kind of didn't
feel like reading here's here's a movie. But the series
will be a big, complete thing, right, So I'm excited

(13:55):
by more screen time, more accuracy, more detail. Audiobook was
hard complete thing, so now we're it's more of a
one one to one comparison. So yeah, harder for me,
harder for me.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
I can't wait.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Well, I can't wait either. So I think we're just
gonna keep hearing more about these, just like with the
HBO show. So I mean, I think we'll probably end
up talking about these audiobooks and the HBO Show or
both in every new segment until they're out, because we're
just gonna learn more and more.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
About them, which is fine with me.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
Gives us something to talk about in our news segment
every week, just in case we have nothing else translation related.
But here's something else that's not translation related, Melanie, and
it is. It is video games. As I mentioned at
the beginning, video games. I've played a video game once.

(14:51):
But no, let's let's move into our main segment and
talk about Harry Potter video games. Because I love video
games and I love Harry Potter, so naturally the those
two things go together in some way, either for good
or for bad, but for collecting purposes. Probably for good,
because I don't think there's quite as many Harry Potter
games as there are Harry Potter translations to collect. But

(15:12):
you never know, Johnny's gonna maybe prove us all wrong
in just a moment. So let's move on to our
main segment. All right, So for our main segment this episode,

(15:43):
we are going to talk about Harry Potter video games.
We're talking about pretty much any video game that's existed
that has to do with Harry Potter. There were games
that related directly to books.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
I know.

Speaker 4 (15:56):
There were games that were I guess you want to
call them spin offs, like quidditchd Cup. There's games that
are kind of just using Harry Potter ip characters, like
Lego Dimensions just has characters from like literally every ip
you could probably think of. So if you ever wanted,
like Marty McFly and Ron Weasley to team up and
kill the t Rex from Jurassic Park, like, you can

(16:19):
do that in like dimensions, which is pretty crazy. But
other than that, I think we're just gonna let Johnny
take it away because there are so many There's so
much to talk about just the games and then the
collectibility of them. So I'll just turn it over to you.
Where do you want to start.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Let's start kind of at the beginning. We'll just we'll
do some basics, so before we even get into Harry
Potter games, let's just talk about video game collecting versus playing,
because those I want to dispel the notion that these
things are the same. It's the same thing as buying
a translation or another copy of Harry Potter that you

(16:54):
definitely aren't going to read and putting it on yourself.
That is video game collecting. It doesn't mean you have
to play. You can just appreciate it as an object,
as something you own, put it on a shelf, admire it,
pick it up, smell it if that's your jam. Most
people don't smell their games, not like we smell our books.
But you could if you like, it's got manuals, it's
got different components, you can pick it up, you can

(17:15):
check it out. You know, it's got a spine. You
want to be careful with all of these things. You're delicate.
You want to keep them nice, get them on their shelf,
protect them, and look at them, catalog them, you know,
all the things you do standard book collecting. You do
a lot of the same things. So like one thing
I'll do is I'll be looking at, you know, like
a UPC code, seeing if it's different. It's like, oh,

(17:35):
these look the same, but as the UPC the same
like some some video games even have ISBNs, which is
always strange. When that happens, you can a ICBN can
be issued to video games, so if you didn't know that.
So there are many and it's not just like Okay,
hey Harry Potter was released and here's here's you know,
seven games or eight games if they're based on the movie.

(17:56):
Like Eric said, some are based on movies, some are
based off the books. It is not really it's not
really a contained thing. They there's no uniformity to this scale.
Like the first one they released is two thousand and one,
So think about what life is like in two thousand
and one, and they are suddenly making Harry Potter video games.

(18:16):
And the first systems that they come out for is
the PlayStation one, the Game Boy Color, and the PC.
So these are your first Harry Potter games. If you
don't know what a Game Boy Color is, that's a
predecessor to the Game Boy Advance, which is a predecessor
to the DS, which is a predator sister to the
three DS. And then your switch Okay, so like that's
your lineage switch to. Like it's a long time ago.

(18:39):
It wasn't like Game Boy Color. The big thing about that,
why it's called color is because that's the first time
Nintendo put a color screen on a video game on
a portable. Okay, because before.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
That was just a big deal.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, who is a huge deal. Sega had done it
with a game gear. But that's it. Harry Potter games
have been going for a long time. Two thousand and one,
we've got over twenty years of Harry Potter games. So yes,
it's a little bit after the books came out, but
not that much longer, and before a lot of countries
even had translations. So if you put it into perspective,
how long these games have been coming out and they

(19:10):
are not the same. You know, games in France might
have slightly different translations than they do in the US,
so you might get some some different verbiage, much like
the UK ones, they might have slightly different language because hey,
who knows what a hose pipe is and a jumper? Right,
we do because we've read Harry Potter or you know,

(19:32):
we've been to England, but you know, some people didn't know.
It's like, oh that's a sweater. Okay, So the languages
were changed. So you have kind of these games that
look very similar, but there's minor differences. And like books,
we have variants. You have different prints and things can change,
like oh this this spy or this cover, you know
the heart. The actual cover has a diamond print on it.

(19:54):
This one doesn't have a diamond print, but it basically
looks the same book. We have small variants like that.
In video games. The world is your oyster when it
comes to video games. It's not just like there's seven
books and there's seven games, and that's the way it
the way it checks out. But I'll give you just
some numbers so we can get to the Harry Potter stuff.
So that's kind of like collecting in a nutshell. It's

(20:15):
all over the place. It's multitude, it's varied, just like
collecting books, so you want a different language, well regions,
it's all there.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
And I think Johnny like people all of a sudden
here like you have ten thousand video games, like you
don't have to, Like you can also pick your criteria
for collecting. Like your criteria could be I just want
all the Harry Potter video games, or I only want
the Harry Potter PlayStation games, or I just want all
the different cover art for the video games, because like

(20:44):
you mentioned, and this was like really prominent. I guess
it's more commonplace now. But back in the day when
we had like Nintendo PR magazine and you'd see like
a cover and you're like, wait a second, the cover
of Japanese Mario three is different than the cover of
Mario three that I have at my house, Like that's crazy.

(21:04):
And you can just do a Google search now and
find all the different cover arts for different games. But like,
to me, that's really cool too, Like there are people
that would look at it and go, wow, I think
the Japanese cover art of this game is really interesting.
I'm curious why they did it that way. And that's
the same thing we do for book translation collecting. I know,
Melanie and I don't need absolutely every Harry Potter translation

(21:27):
that exists on the planet, but we really do like
to collect all the ones that have unique cover art
or different cover art or cover art that's similar but
different enough to set it apart, like visually, like right
off the bat, you're like, Oh, that's got the red foil,
that's got to be it. Or like the Hebrew book
we talked about last week, you're like, oh, it's the
American cover art. We're not the one last week, but

(21:47):
like the original Hebrew set, Like it's the American cover art,
but the foil's green on this one. That's crazy, Like
in the US it's this color. So like that part
of the collecting like really does appeal to me as
a collector. And I do like video games, and I
do like having physical media, as shown by my giant
book wall behind me here, but like that's the part

(22:07):
of video game collecting that I can really get behind.
Or like, oh, this French game came with a really
cool promotional poster on the inside for a new fast
food sandwich place that they were trying to get off
the ground and leone or something like, just just this
random stuff that like makes it cool and kind of
just cements that that game and that in that part

(22:30):
of time, just like just like books do, like when
they have the thing at the end like you also
might like. And then they mentioned books that are around.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
At that time.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
So that's that's what I really enjoy about, is the
different art, and I just wanted to throw it out
there that that's the parallel that I draw between translation
collecting with the different cover art and different video games
from around the world. Like it's it's very similar to that.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
I mean, it's also it reaches me on that because
the way you procure games and the way you procure
books from different regions. Some regions, as you know, it's
harder to get books out of like oh, it's so
hard to find a book here. Getting video games out
of Korea is a pain. Getting games out of Brazil
is a pain. Like to find Korean Harry Potter games
when you're getting charged to premium, there's only a few

(23:11):
of them and you're probably, it's just going to be
a pain for you to get them, and if you
want them, you're going to have to pay. And now
with all the tariffs in the way the world works now,
getting translations, getting video games in different languages, different regions,
it's it's a much harder value proposition than it used
to be. It was like, oh, well, I'll just go
on like, oh, I'll be on Japanese McCary and I'll
just like see what Yahoo Auctions Japan is doing. And

(23:33):
then oh, this side over here, like we know that
this is there are Craigslist equivalent, so let's go check
this out. There's even Canadian variants, which some people don't know.
It's like North American but also sometimes Canadian. There are
specific Canadian releases which we'll have French texts on the back.
Same with South America, mainly Mexico. We'll have Spanish releases

(23:56):
on the back, but still have like a US upc
on it because they consider one region, but the one
that's released in the US is slightly different. There's all
kinds of these variations that exist, and like you said,
there is some different art. Good news if you want
to collect different art for Harry Potter games. It's not
as much as the books. It's it's far less exciting
in that realm. Like they don't they didn't drastically do

(24:17):
a bunch of different things with art. There's a few,
and it's like cool when they exist, because you know,
it's easy to identify. You're like, that's awesome. That has
different art. I'm gonna go get that. But you also
get different promotional items with video games that you don't
get with like books. Like you get a lot more pins,
lots more chotch keys and stuff that that get thrown
on video games than you would uh with books. Right,

(24:37):
it's like, oh, this one has a ribbon, and this
one came with the bookmark, and this one came in
a slipcase, and that's book collecting video games. You know,
you're like, this one came with a lego Okay, that's nice.
This one comes with the lego Hogwarts Express and a
cardboard outer or slipcase, and it's always damaged and I
hate that and it's never gonna look nice like you.
That's that's a video game. So that's a little bit

(24:59):
on how they're different. Now they're somewhere and I can
get into some of the numbers. I could bore you
just for hours on all the like the minutia. But
there's a lot going on, especially with Harry Potter games,
as I was going to get into, not seven games,
not eight games of the movies. So you we actually
have nineteen physical different games, and that expands quite a

(25:22):
bit when you consider that these games were released on
multiple consoles. Like I said, they started on the game
Boy Color. They're all the way up to the switch
to the most recent console, and that's going to continue.
These games will get re released over time. It's not
like Harry Potter is a dead ip as these As
video games entered this new period where re releases are
more common than they've ever been, people are going to

(25:44):
look at this and be like, oh, yeah, we should
start re releasing some of these classic games and bundles.
Now a lot of this is going to become more digital.
You know, books still hardcore physical, you have a digital continuent,
but video games are moving into the digital landscape much so.
These are also artifacts that are going to disappear quicker,

(26:05):
but they're going to keep being released and there will
always be special additions that come out. So you're going
to see more of these, you know, in in the world,
you're going to get new arts as people are like,
oh yeah, I think I would like to try that
original PlayStation one. Unfortunately, unlike books, video games are are
timestamped in such a way that they don't they don't

(26:26):
age as gracefully as books. When you go back and
you look at a PS one game, it sure looks
like a PS one game, okay, compared to a PS
five game. You know that. So that's a hurdle for
some people. They don't want to go. So there's a
little bit less revisiting, but there is still in the
Solida factor built in. Fun fact about Harry Potter. It
is one of the top ten best selling PS one
games of all time, so most people discount that, but

(26:49):
it was I mean, Phosphor's Stone Sorcererstone, huge, huge game
for Sony. It was a big, big deal in video
games and sold big numbers.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
But anyway, so that was the first time you could
the first time you could be Harry Potter, and that
was crazy, right, Like, there's a lot of appeal to this.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
So and like I said, it came out in the
PS one. But here's what I'm saying, we have nineteen
games but released on all these systems, but it's not
the same game on every system. Everyone's like, oh, it's
got the exact same title. I've got Harry Potter and
the Sorcerer's Stone on the PS one and I'm sure
that is exactly the same as the Game Boy Color.
It is not. These vastly different systems, and in fact,
the whole design of the game was different. And then

(27:29):
they re release Harry Potter right and the Phosopher's Stone
SORCER's Stone on the Game Boy Advance the next system,
but it's not even the same version. Even though they
keep the same cover, they changed the style of the game.
It becomes a dramatically different game. And that's not the
same as the PlayStation one game, and that is not
the same as the PC game, which was also released
in the same kind of period. So while it's circulating

(27:52):
around the same general story, you're playing Harry Potter, you're
playing the Sorcerer's Stone, but you weren't playing the same
style of the game once like more action, one's more
RPG like. They have different little elements in them, with
different gameplay styles, different camera angles, completely different graphics, different
story beats, things that are included not included. So, yes,
it's Sorcerer's Stone, but it's not exactly the same game.

(28:13):
And that goes on for every every game and every
system that It's just some of it is very slight
and some that is dramatically different. So like we get
to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on the GameCube,
which you're thinking, oh, that's that's cool, that's they put
the first game on the GameCube. Actually the first game
that came out on the GameCube of this Harry Potter
is Chamber of Secrets, which is different than the Chamber

(28:35):
of Secrets that was released on the Game Boy Color
PS one, but it is the same as the one
that was released on the PS two and the Xbox.
There's like you have to keep track of all of
this nonsense, and this is like more of an open
world style game, think Morizelda Ocherring enough time, especially SORCER's Stone.
So it actually comes out second, even though it is

(28:56):
the first game in the series. And that's the other thing.
Not every system that a Harry Potter game. It didn't
get all seven because the seven books span a long
time before they come out right, you've got was it
ninety six to two thousand and five or something? Was
that or two thousand and eight. I can't remember the
exact range that the books came out, but over that
span that the books are coming out, systems are coming
and they are going. And when a system goes away,

(29:17):
especially back then, completely gone right, it's like that's trash
out with the old and with the new new graphics better,
old games bad. That has kind of changed. People got
into retrogaming. Now we have video game collectors like myself,
But that was that was a whole thing. So you
just like didn't get all seven games. You can't be like,
I'm gonna play the Harry Potter series on the PS one.

(29:38):
You know you're not. That's not happening. Would you like
to play the whole Harry Potter series on the PS two?
You can't, you know. That's so there's no uniformity really
until you get to like the Lego games where it's
kind of combined several of the games and you can
play them all. But that's like a little bit about
the differences and like how video games and they work. Again,
I don't want to like bore everyone with these but

(30:00):
i'll get you quick nineteen different games that came out.
You have obviously one through eight, right, you know, because
they basically they did the movie thing. It's like because
those games became movie Tians. The first ones were more
book right, but here we get movie Tians. So you
get eight games, and then you get then you get
Lego Quiddy's World Cup. In the middle of that. In

(30:21):
two thousand and three you get the Lego Harry Potter games.
There's one through four and then five through seven, and
then you get a collector's package with a slight remaster.
They change a few things, fix a few bugs, and
they put them all together. So that's technically considered a
different game. If you want a parallel, think of it
as the German Bible Book, right, like where they jammed
off seven into one thing. You don't count that as
the same thing. It's this is a new entity onto itself.

(30:44):
Then you get something. And these were fun, not well received,
but kind of fun. If you were a kid. Book
of Spells. Do you know what is a wonder book item?
It's the PS three the Book of Spells and Book
of Potions. And this was using the PlayStation move and
this is when PlayStation three decided after they had said
that the Wii is stupid and the Wei modis for babies,

(31:06):
they're like, oh, people are still using that thing, maybe
we should capitalize on that marketplace that's there. So they
made this thing called the PlayStation Move Controller, which is
just like a little wand with with the orb on
top of it that changes called little plastic Ball. They
made these games which came with this Wonder Book which
a camera would read and you would wave the move
stick around like a wand so you would concoct potions

(31:28):
and cast spells, you know, through these games. It came
with this like blank book with these scannable pages on
it that looked like a spell book when you look
through the camera and like you had a wand in
your hand. Kind of fun. Didn't do well. And there's
like there's different versions of these things. All these games
have different versions. There's variants of all that. I'm not
going to drag you down the list of that, but anyways,

(31:48):
after that, you get Lego Harry Potter Connect on this
Xbox three sixty. Again they're getting into the camera stuff
and they're like, yeah, you should move in front of
the camera and do stuff and like fli your armor
and like act like you have a wand and now
you're casting spells on the Xbox and look you're in
the Wizarding World. Amazing, you know. Kind of terrible, Yeah,

(32:09):
kind of terrible. But it is a thing you can
go buy for like twelve dollars. It's not expensive. So
there is that. And then, as Eric said, then you
get these things called lego dimensions, typically classified as toys
to life. And what that means is is a toy
that is brought into the video game world in some way,
usually like an NFC reader, a little chip in the
bottom of it you can touch a thing, and then

(32:30):
that is. But the lego dimensioned ones are interesting because
embedded in them is new content, not just the character itself,
but it opens levels that weren't previously available. So we
start to weigh, like, is this its own game? The
Fantastic The only way to play any of the Fantastic
Beast content is through this. You know, often talked about
Fantastic Beast content. No one like is going to be

(32:53):
lost to time at some point, but yeah, you could
play some of the Fantastic Beasts if you, uh, you
want to be new you want, you want to go
save Jacob in the bank. That's the thing you can
do in Lego Dimensions. And you know, you know, have
a cool Niffler pet awesome, but you could only do
that in Lego Dimensions. And this if you bought this
one specific pack that had all of that content, so
it's kind of like its own game. Then you had

(33:14):
like a Harmony pack and a Harry pack and Harry
Versus Voldemort, so you have like this additional content. It's
almost DLC, but it's almost its own thing because it
is still part of Lego Dimensions. But it's unsure how
to classify it. We'll just call it toys to Life.
Know that there's specific content tied to these, I don't
really classify those as games. And then you got this

(33:35):
big thing, you know, big big deal in Hogwarts Legacy,
which is not specifically Harry Potter, but it is Wizarding World.
Did we mention Quiddity World Cup? I can't remember if
we said, quindit you World Cup Quidditch game. You can
play it, very enjoyable.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
But Hogwarts Late I loved, I loved that game, like
I played that game a ton that's like the one
on this list that I think I played the most
of because it was not a movie tie in, I think,
and I think that was the appeal to me because
I'm a book person and the movie games were just
kind of like it's a movie tie in game, Like
none of them really did anything for me, but the

(34:15):
notion that you could play for for all intents and purposes,
like it's a sports game, but it's a made up sport.
And there were things that I wish they would have
done better with that game, But for what it was,
I thought it was pretty enjoyable at.

Speaker 5 (34:30):
The time, Like it was just it was cool.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
You get to see a little bit more of the
Wizarding World outside of what you had just given were
given like in the movies or books, which which I liked.

Speaker 5 (34:40):
I thought that was cool.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Quick parallel to that, I don't know if you've seen,
it's the new game that is out, which is Quidditch Champions,
which is another Quidditch game, because they're like, we need
to do more of what that game did, and they
tried to bring that in and because Quiddache people enjoyed
Quiddache in Hogwarts Legacy, which I'll touch back on, but yeah,
they brought that out. And this is an interesting game
because provide some dilemmas and it I'll just talk about

(35:02):
this quickly because it branches us into the new world
of video game collecting. There's a PS five copy, there's
an Xbox one copy. You can buy these. They are
physical copies. Now, there's a thing in video games where
it's called a box code in a box, so you
get it looks like you're buying a switch game, and
inside of it is just a download code that you

(35:23):
go when you put in, you open your box, You
then go to the store put in your redemption code,
and then you get the game. And people say, well,
that's not really that's not really a game. That's not
physical media. Well what's the difference? And I pose this
to people and you'll get people mad. Is that different
than the code that's on a disc that is also

(35:43):
just a redemption code that might trigger an instant download
when you put it in. It's media, right, like a
printed insert is still media. It's just a different time. Yes,
you don't plug it directly into your system. But a
lot of times these discs aren't actually games anyways. They're
just validation keys that go in and begin downloads. So
there's this whole landscape.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
And they can that card with the code on it
is something you can hold. It's not like you're just
buying it online. So the code itself is going to
be different on every game. It's not like it's the
same code for every box. But it's still something that
you can collect and put on your shelf and say.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Look, I have this and that's different.

Speaker 5 (36:23):
Right, which is what we all do. You can hold
it up.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
I have this well, and it comes in the switchbox too,
so we would sit in your switch set and you're like,
oh right, that's fine. There are codes you can just
go buy and it's not a big deal, and they
come just like a little gift card. You can go
redeem it. But this is one that's actually in a box.
So we we fight about code in the box all
the time. It's a favorite topic where we talk about
whether accounts or not, and then you know, people get
riled up and we fight over our opinions and it's

(36:48):
good fun. But the big, the big deal hogwarts legacy,
whether you can it or not. In the in the
Harry Potter set, and I'm a guy who has over
one hundred Harry Potter games. And that's just like with
all the variants in North America, just keeping it to
North American Harry Potter games. With all these games that
are available, all the systems there out, you can own
well over one hundred and twenty different Harry Potter games.
So you can have one hundred and twenty North American

(37:11):
Harry Potter games, even though I've told you there's only
nineteen different games. So you can really branch out and
then you start going to the world, like I think
I have over two hundred Harry Potter games now just
specific to Harry Potter, which is like more games than
most people, and most people don't own two hundred games.
And I've got like just various dumb Harry Potter games

(37:33):
because we like Harry Potter. And that's why we're talking today.
So you can go and you like, I've got all
the UK ones, I've got Canadian variants, I've got Japanese ones,
I've got Korean games, I've got German copies. Like we're
all over the map, literally all over the map. So
you can do that. And like I said, Hogwarts Legacy,
whether you count that or not, it's got some fun stuff.

(37:54):
If you don't know what that is. It's an open
world game where which does have like a story, and
you if you really want to explore the Wizarding World,
it is the best Harry Potter walking sim there is.
You can just go in there and just be like,
I don't care about the story, but I'm gonna get
on this room and I'm gonna fly around and check
it out and like wander the castle and see the
common rooms, and this is pretty awesome. You can commit
as much or as little time to that as you like.

(38:16):
You know, I'm not the guy yelling at people to
go play their games. Collect them if you like, play them,
if you like, do what makes you happy. This is
kind of how I like to think about it. Anyways,
that's your nineteen games. Lots of different stuff.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
I know.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
I just spewed at you, guys, not spew but actual spewing.
So what questions have I left you with? If I
didn't explain anything, or should I talk more about and
if not, I got a few fun call outs after.

Speaker 6 (38:46):
The fact, I guess my question would be maybe not

(39:30):
even about the collecting, but have you played all nineteen games?

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Good question, Eric, Yes, I think that was my question.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
Also, Yeah, so answer you both. Yes, I have played
all nineteen. Well, I'm going to retract that i've played eighteen.
I haven't played the new Quidditch game yet, it's on
my list to play. I have not played them on
every system. So like Hogwarts Legacy just came out on
the switch to as well, I have not put that
in a switch to and I probably won't. You know,

(39:58):
my PS five is doing just fine for Hogwarts Legacy,
so I probably won't do that. But I did buy
it because you know, you got to complete the set.
But yeah, I have played almost all of them, and
then I didn't talk about it. But there's also like
four fourish prominent digital games. Also we get into like
what do you consider a game. There's like all these
old flash games that were like on websites. You can't

(40:19):
really collect those, but you know, there's what the Hogwarts
Mystery or whatever that my wife really liked that was
by and then there's like the Niantech kind of like
Pokemon Go game that was out for a while and
whenever there's a lot of ye, all right, there was all.

Speaker 5 (40:32):
The that was like a hot week of fun and
then people.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
They were over at the first Yeah, but Hogwarts Mystery
is gone, and it's like deep into the lore of
that game and all the spending you can do. You
can spend hundreds of I forgot about that.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
I forgot about that game.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
I did not make it very far and how far
that game probably went, but I enjoyed it for like
the first like month that I played in.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
I think you can play through all seven years now
if you want, you can. You can have a whole
whole year, whole seven years at Hogwarts if that is
your jam. So, yeah, go go check that out. That's
a mobile game. But again that's not like a real
physical thing you can collect. But there are like a
few specific cards you can get that were like for
that when it first came out, that you can go

(41:19):
and find kind of hard to find. But if you're like, oh,
I want a thing that talks about this one game
that never has any physical artifact, that's the thing you
go look for. So anyways, well cool.

Speaker 4 (41:30):
Well, so I guess like we could all search for
like top ten Harry Potter game lists or YouTube channels,
like do you have a couple that just in terms
of playing you would say these are probably the ones
that are fun, and.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
You should play absolutely Lego Harry Potter Collection. Just go
get or play one through four or five, five through seven.
The collection combines both of them. The Lego games do
a really fantastic job of kind of blending the movies
and the books and Lego into its own thing, and
it kind of gives you an open world. So imagine
what Hogwarts Legacy is kind of doing, but more more

(42:07):
in in the book realm and you know movie that
that time frame, you get to go do all that.
You get to live out Harry Potter stuff, but you
also get to free play, and you get to go
find all these different characters so you can play through
all the levels. It gives you a lot to do.
It's fun, it's got all the Lego charm. It's still
got the leg Lego babble language instead of them being
actually voiced. Some people like that, some people hate it,

(42:29):
but that that's in there.

Speaker 5 (42:32):
But yeah, I love it. And and those games like
they're so fun.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
I'm playing with my daughter, I play with my son,
and my kids are little enough where the stakes in
those games are so low, Like it's just all about
the fun and the exploration and solving puzzles, and you
don't really ever die, like you can't. You never get
to a point where you have to start a level all
the way over, like you just keep coming back for more,
and it's it's really just fun about the about the experience.

(42:58):
Those are probably my favorite Harry Potter games, And like
you said, you can get them all together on one.
It's always on sale on the switch e shop. I
don't know about the digital story fronts. Yeah, it's super
cheap sometimes, but it it's super super fun. And I
love playing with my daughter as she's reading the books
and she's like recognizing the stuff in there and understanding
because all the Lego games have kind of like weird,

(43:22):
like humor driven moments where like someone's supposed to pull
a wand out, but they pull out like like a cat,
a carrot or a cat or something, and like she
thinks that's hilarious, and my son think that's hilarious because
like they know what's supposed to happen, because you know,
she's read the books now and she knows that that's
not really what's supposed to be going on. So like
those are still fun and I can't recommend those enough. Yeah,

(43:45):
too even if you're not a big video game person,
if you like Harry Potter, I think it's super fun.
So I'm glad you brought that one up first, because
that is my absolute favorite me.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
It's an easy recommend. It's not hard, especially for people
who don't play a lot of video games. Like you said,
they're easy and they're rewarding, but they don't make you
feel like an idiot because you're not like I'm playing
on easy mode and this is so dumb. You're still
having fun. They're the charm and humor is enough to
carry those games and you are still exploring them. They're
very atmospheric, right, so they create a really good surrounding.

(44:15):
Like if you put the lights out and get in
and you're like down and you're like in the Prisoner
of Basketban levels and it's raining, and they really do
a vignette on the whole screen and it gets dark
and you hear the storm and it's really good, like,
you know, go go check.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
It's a full scored movie. I think it's a movie
soundtrack in those games too, so just as you're wandering around,
it's just got the classic movie soundtrack playing in the background.
It's just a fun time.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
It's charming, like they're they're very charming to play, And
I feel like what you're kind of saying about like
the Lego games is like my would be my only
beef with Hogwarts Legacy is I love Hogwarts Legacy, but
I feel like for me, it's too complicated for me
to play. Like I watched my husband play it, I've

(44:59):
watched them play the story I think three times now
we've had or four times because I think we've done
all four houses and wanted to explore that aspect of it.
But I know for me, like it's just a bit
too complicated. I'm a very big like cozy gamer, so

(45:19):
it's not exactly like my jam to play, but I
do love to watch it. I think that the story
is great, and it's been it's been very cool having
like such open access to Hogwarts and what they developed
Hogwarts into I think is the most awe like thing

(45:42):
that has you in so much awe is like how
vast they made the map just Hogwarts. So I do
love that game, but again, like the accessibility of it
for me isn't quite there as it is for the
Lego games, which I know I could pick up the
Lego games and play it through and have so much

(46:03):
fun playing them and get all of that story aspect
that I really enjoy from Harry Potter, like I can
get that in the Lego games.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
So that's what I love so much about them too well.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
And I feel like Hogwarts Legacy really looked at what
the Lego games did well and kind of copied some
of that, Like there's you can definitely see footprints of
what the Lego game tried to achieve in creating the
world of Harry Potter, and Lego and Harry Potter Legacy
went and looked at that and said, Okay, we can
do some of that. So imagine in some ways if
Lego Harry Potter grew up a little bit, it would

(46:35):
become what Hogwarts Legacy is. Both cozy games to play,
but yeah, Hogwarts Legacy infinitely more complex than the Lego games.
So Lego is like a two button, sit down enjoy
great if you have young kids, as Eric was saying,
great to sit down play with them. My son is
just getting to the AG six now and we're getting
into it, and he, you know, he knows Harry Potter.

(46:56):
He likes Harry Potter. We go to the Wizarding World
and stuff, and he he's all about this. He like
he'll go off and play by himself, and you know
some of the puzzles, you know, he gets a little
stuck on. But that's where you can step in and
two player co op on screen. It's not like you
have to do split screen or anything, which is gets weird.
You're like just on the screen together doing lego stuff.
And again stakes are low, so and if you're like

(47:18):
I'm bad at games, it doesn't matter. I will say this.
Don't get the one on your phone, like because there's
available on like iOS and Android. Don't get that version. Okay,
it'll be tempting to do that. Try to play on
a proper system, like on a PS four because that
has like the remaster where they fix some of the
bugs and clean up the graphics a little bit. Like
PS four and up. They also have new ones on

(47:40):
the switch, like Real easy to like jump in and play.
Not an expensive game, but those ones have a larger map,
a larger world. Because for the mobile games like the
DS and everything, the handheld ones and the phone ones,
they cut down a bunch of the content, so you
get kind of a truncated version and things that are
removed so you'll get the full game in PS four

(48:02):
and up. So that's just my recommendation. There other good games.
We just talked about about Hogwarts Legacy if you want
that more big game stuff. And then I think one
that people don't talk about is Sorcerer's Stone on the
game Cube. I mean you can get on PS two
as well, but that was really just a really cool
game because it was like it was exploration. Like I said,

(48:24):
think of a Karina of Time and suddenly you've got
like a Zelda like but it's Harry Potter. They like
this open world map again Hogwarts, you can get all
over it. You can go see the grounds and stuff.
Rather than the movie game. So as you said, we
get on the movie games. Movie game direct movie tying
games have never been well regarded and this stuff is
just like on rails, do a thing, hit every movie beat,

(48:47):
congratulations you played Harry Potter, where these ones are more like,
go have fun in the world, go see the world.
But also here's the Harry Potter story. So yeah, those
what if I was gonna recommend three, those are what
I would say to go and go and try and
play any other questions, or I can hit you with
some fun facts or fun.

Speaker 5 (49:09):
Fun fact fun to get the fun factor to.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
Read the fun Factory is operational Eric and uh Away
we Go. Japan has a very rare promo. So the
rarest Harry Potter game you can get is on PlayStation
Japanese PlayStation and it's The Sorcerer's Stone and it's a
Pepsi promo which they change the art on the disc
and it was only given away through the promo, and

(49:36):
there's not a lot of information. It's like we think
there's one hundred copies, maybe it could be a thousand.
No one really knows. The print runs and it's not
like when it's like a weird Japanese promo. It's not
like it comes to the US a lot. Not a
lot of people talk about it. Not a lot of
people are hardcore in depth on collecting Harry Potter games either.
So yeah, there's like this little Harry Potter promo and
it's got like a movie disc and it was coming

(49:57):
out around the same time as the the DVDs were
being release. You can kind of see that art in
the movies, so it's in that timeframe when the first
movie and stuff is coming out versus just like this
other one you can see on the PlayStation one disc.
It's not movie art on the front. It's because it's
coming out before they have movie stills, before the actors
are really cast, so you have art that's different, and

(50:17):
they just like go with like a weird blue printed disc.
But the Pepsi promo because it's in core. Like if
you remember when Pepsi was doing all the promo, well
Coke did him here, but Pepsi also had promo in
Japan for Harry Potter, so you all, this Pepsi promo
was going on over there for Harry Potter right when
the movies and first DVD was releasing. So yeah, really

(50:38):
exceptionally rare game. It's the rarest Harry Potter game. You
probably won't see it. I can post a picture of
it in the discord if people want to see what
that disc looks like. It's not that exciting. It kind
of just looks like a DVD, like I just pulled
out a DVD out of the case. But yeah, it's interesting.
The video game collectors, I talked a little bit about
the hardest of fine games. Our hardest region to get
games out of. Is Korea super hard to get out of,

(51:02):
which is a shame because seeing the Korean language on
the front of the game is really interesting. But sometimes
it's just like stickers over the language over like it'll
look like the American game, and they're like they'll do
like kind of just an overlay. There's some stuff like that.
And sometimes like one of the games just comes with
a strategy guide just because they just throw in this
extra item. I don't know why, because I wasn't around

(51:24):
in Korea to find out what all their promotional materials lent,
why they made these choices. It's just like, you know,
this one comes with this little guide. Okay, great, so cool.
Cool rarity is if you want to go find that.
But I think my funnest fact is that much like
in America and the UK, we have Harry Potter Sorcerer's

(51:45):
Stone and then you have Philosopher's Stone. Most people don't
know this that you can buy a North American copy
of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on the PS
one because it was released in Canada as the Philosopher's
Stone at the same time as Sorcerer's Stone was released.
And most people didn't even realize or didn't even think
about it because it didn't hit every region in Canada,

(52:06):
so there wasn't that many Philosopher's Stones printed out. But yeah,
you can go find a first print copy of Harry
Potter before they changed it over, just went hardcore Sorcerer's
Stone at everything for North America, and there was Philosopher's
Stone copies that made it to North America, which is fun.
The other thing that they did.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
At school that's kind of like the the Canadian Art
Scholastic Yes, exactly, weird hybrid for book collecting where it's like, yeah,
you wouldn't anticipate a Scholastic published UK art sold in Canada.
Like it's just the weird mashup of all these things
that you see. But then you're like, wait, what am
I looking at?

Speaker 5 (52:43):
Actually? What is this? And why why does this exit?
Why is this exist?

Speaker 3 (52:47):
So they did that on PS one. You could get
it on the Game Boy Advance and the Game Boy Color.
Those were the only ones that were like that because
I was the first run Chamber of Secrets Obvience and
like there's no naming differences there, so just this one
little bubble and I think those are really fun. The
other thing they did in these first print of games,
including the Game Boy Advance was if you remember Wizards

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of the Coast, which is used to print Pokemon and
still currently prints magic cards, they are a trading card game.
There was a Harry Potter trading card game that was
out for a little while. People there's called the Harry
Potter Revival. People still play this game. They print their
own new cards, they make their own stuff, so this
still game that kind of exists that people are enjoying online.
They play online tournaments and stuff. But these first versions,

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in the first print, they packed in a trading card
with this game, and that's sad because that was kind
of near the end of that trading card game's life too.
So after like the second, third prints of these games,
they like to remove that trading card and they take
out all reference to the trading card being something that's included.
But you can get it. It's illegibus. I'm saying it

(53:53):
wrong because it's a weird word to read, but yeah,
there is one that comes with a card eligibilius. Yeah,
it's like it's always trips to it's too many l's
in that word. But yeah, and then Hogwarts Legacy actually
has one of the most expensive items you can get
for Harry Potter that is not like a weird promotional item,

(54:17):
and that's the Hogwarts Legacy PlayStation controller. So they had
this special controller that's decorated for Hogwarts Legacy very specifically,
and there's collector's editions of that too that come with
a bunch of Chotsky's like a floating wand and everything.
It's a bunch of nonsense. But the controller is something
everyone can use, and there are a very specific controller collectors.

(54:38):
There is a whole controller contingent people dedicated just to
collecting video game controls. This is a controller. Like PlayStation
controllers aren't cheap, but they're like fifty to seventy dollars,
and this is like a two hundred and fifty to
three hundred dollars controller all day long if you can
find one that's out there.

Speaker 4 (54:53):
So that wasn't the initial retail It was like seventy dollars.
Oh yeah, okay, And that wasn't a pack in with
the game.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
That was special controller. There's also like this really cool
promotional Xbox which they decorated like a three sixty Xbox
like like Lego Harry Potter that was like a giveaway.
So there's there's cool promotional items. Some of the Japanese
Hogwarts Legacy games came with like little house pins that
you could go get that are stamped with Hogwarts Legacy
on them. So there's lots of little little stuff. If

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you want to collect video games and all the antle
Hary items, you can have thousands and thousands of Harry
Potter items if that's what you want to do. That
are just video games. We're not even talking about movies
or anything. And then we of course, well I said,
we don't have movies, but we do because the PSP,
and people always ask if discounts PSP had movies. If
you remember PSP is this Sony PlayStation which was a

(55:49):
little disc system that you could buy movies for called
umd's Universal Media Disc, and uh, there was Harry Potter movies.
I think six of them made it for that that
you could that you could play in your little Sony PlayStation.

Speaker 4 (56:03):
Terrible resolution, not as terrible as the ones for Keyboy, Yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
The game Boy Advanced Video.

Speaker 5 (56:11):
Real bad. It's like it's like two frames per second.
It's all not.

Speaker 4 (56:18):
But yeah, I forgot about the I forgot about those videos.
I remember, and they were they were not cheap. And
that was before you could watch video on any sort
of device.

Speaker 5 (56:27):
That was like just.

Speaker 4 (56:28):
Before iPod videos were a thing where you could like
put the bad resolution movies on your iPod, not even the.

Speaker 5 (56:36):
Touch just like the wheel one with the screen.

Speaker 4 (56:38):
But I remember like this one kid in my math
class that had a PSP and had I don't.

Speaker 5 (56:45):
Think it was like Happy Gilmore. No, it wasn't Happy Gilmore.
It was Oh, I don't remember.

Speaker 4 (56:51):
I think it wasn't Adam Sandler movie though, but now
I could be wrong because you probably know all the
movies that came out of the piece. But anyway, he
had like one movie and he would just watch it
like all the time, over and over because it was
the only movie he had. And so if it's like
he wanted to watch a movie on the go, that
was his movie to watch on the go. It wasn't
like streaming anything to your phone these days. That no,

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you know, you can desire it's like, oh, you want
to watch a movie and you're traveling, Oh.

Speaker 3 (57:15):
Well, yeah, that's well. I like I bought my wife
movie on it because she wanted. I was like, we
were going on a plane. I was like, here, I
got you Labyrinth. You use my PSP and I'll play
my DS or whatever, and she was like, okay, like
watching Labyrinth on this horrible PSP. But yeah, So there's more.
There's lots of fun variants that come in. There are

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a bunch of Fairy Potter games that came with movie
tickets included, which is my favorite type of variant in
all video games is when they pack a movie ticket
into the game and they tell you it's like, oh,
five dollars like concession cash, or here's ten dollars redeemed
to go see Harry Potter. So I always liked to
find him with the movie ticket still and someone didn't
go get that value. So my favorite thing is to
find those. And the Harry Potter games have like three

(57:58):
or four of those that have movie tickets that can
find around, but there's dedicated systems. There was like a
PS five that that came out with It came with
a three D version of Deathly Hollows. I think I
want to say, and I think lego Harry Potter, and
it's got like Valdimort and Harry on the box. So
but it's not for a game specifically, it's it's more

(58:20):
they the PlayStation three was just promoting the movie. So
you can find all kinds of stuff in video games.
That crosses over, especially into Sony, because Sony had some
time there where they were getting all kinds of movie stuff.
Like I said, you can buy legos, you can buy
carrying cases, system cases, anything you want, any kind of
Harry Potter stuff that you want. If you want that's

(58:41):
like a video game item, you can pretty much do
it with Harry Potter. It's a huge tranchise, as I
think we're all aware. But that means that I got
a lot of games and it because it got so
many international releases too. I used it as a learning
platform to like learn how to collect foreign games, right
because I could go and explore and like, oh, here's
like I know what this code on this box flat means.

(59:01):
This means, this is a language code. This is what
a revision is. But it's like you find a number
line on books, like it's not quite the same when
you go into other countries. But Harry Potter was across
and that's enough countries I could create a unified system
to like learn about it. So you know, Harry Potter
was an important tool for me even to learn about
collecting video games outside of the United States. So you
can do as much or as little as you like.

(59:22):
Like you said, Eric, you could just go collect a
few cover variants. You could just say I want one
of each, or you could be a wacko and go
have two hundred Harry Potter games, a couple of systems,
a controller, expensive promo items, or you could just go
spend like forty dollars and have the whole set. Do that, easy, pasy.
That's Harry Potter video game collecting and a very small nutshell.

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It probably sounded like a lot, but that's the super
condensed version of this conversation.

Speaker 5 (59:49):
Well, I think I loved it.

Speaker 4 (59:50):
I loved hearing about that, and I think it's just
really cool again to see the parallels between collecting books
and collecting Harry Potter video.

Speaker 5 (59:58):
Games or video games in general.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
That's the more you talk to people that collect different things,
like I know Peter collects minerals, I know someone that
told me that, I think my wife's boss collects marbles.
Like there's all these things that you hear about right
away and you're like, that's kind of weird, But really
it's all the same mindset. It's all the same thing,

(01:00:21):
and I think at the core of it, as different
as the actual physical collection would be, we're all like
the same we have the same they have the same
brain it's the same thing.

Speaker 5 (01:00:32):
Beanie babies, same thing.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
We all have the same chemical issue that got developed
way back when when like Pokemon and beanie babies were
everything and it.

Speaker 5 (01:00:42):
Was going to catch them all exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
Like Peter and I joke about that all the time.
It's like, oh, well, Pokemon just conditioned us to got
to catch them all, Like I have to catch them all.
I have to have them all. And that's the collector
kind of mindset.

Speaker 5 (01:00:56):
I mean the.

Speaker 4 (01:00:58):
First time I remember the first time as a kid
hearing that the Beanie Baby bull there was originally Tabasco
the Bull. It got pulled because there was a copper
infringement and they renamed it. And I'm thinking like, oh
my gosh, like.

Speaker 5 (01:01:16):
I gotta find one of those, like I need a
Tabasco of the bull. And it's the same thing. It's
the exact same.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
Oh yeah, it was.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
I remember I remember my second Beanie Baby that I
ever got was Blackie the Bear. And in Blackie the
Bear's tag, it said that Blackie's best friend was a
bear named Cubby. So I had to go on a
hunt at every Beanie Baby store looking for Cubby the Bear,
and I got like twenty or thirty other Beanie Babies

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before I ended up getting Cubby.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
And that was exactly what they wanted. I just played
right into it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:54):
So they wanted that I knew was my downfall is
when I saw a checklist on the back of a
card and I was like, oh, I could collect all
of these, and it tells you collect all of these,
and it's like, okay, I agree with you. Thing that
has no power over me suddenly I do. I do
need to collect them all.

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
It's not even a it's not even a question. It's
like collect collect all seven. It's like, oh, all right,
I'll be right, I'll be right back.

Speaker 5 (01:02:19):
I could do that. I can try it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:20):
I think I can get right onto that for you.

Speaker 5 (01:02:23):
I'll get right on it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
My son, I fear for him because he saw, like
if you remember when McDonald's was doing like the one
hundred promotion, the Disney like one hundred or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
My son looked at that box. Yeah, he looked at
it and went, Dad, we could collect all of these.
And I was like, no, we absolutely cannot collect all

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of these. But the fact, like unprompted he was very young.
I think it was like for when he looked at me,
it's just like, we could collect all of these. I
was just like, ah, we are in trouble. You have
the same broken thing that I have. Great, great, awesome,
you got it?

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
Yeah, yeah, I had.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
I had that revelation with the Spot books because Nora
is like very into like where Spot And on the
back of the book it shows like four different editions
and their geniuses because you'll buy those four different editions
and those four different books have different covers on them,
and now we have like twenty different Spot books. And

(01:03:24):
she still says, but Mommy, don't you remember we need
this book too, Like we don't have that one.

Speaker 4 (01:03:31):
Oh no, that was Berenstein Bear Books for me, like
because they had the on the back of the Bearnstein
Bear books, they have those two. It's like, oh, but
we don't have the one where they move. We don't
have Moving Day, like what we gotta find it, we
need to read that one. We need to get moved day.
Then you get moving day and it's like too much birthday.
I don't even know that one was exist What too

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much birth What is that? So yeah, it just goes
out to.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
The GBA Berenstein Bear's game that comes with a book
in it for Halloween, so you can go get that
and uh yeah, it comes with a little mini Berenstein
Bear's book in it, so please enjoy or go collect that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:08):
I will, Well, do we want to talk about a
book or do we want to wrap it up?

Speaker 5 (01:04:14):
Melanie? What do you think?

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
Honestly, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
I was like we were I feel like we were
gonna do a book, but I feel like this episode
is not about It's not about that, Like this episode's about.

Speaker 4 (01:04:27):
I was just thinking that too, Like I got we
just have this very like non bookish vibe on here,
and it feels kind of weird to go right into
talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
About I mean, are your people going to be mad
though that you didn't do the time, like you didn't
know the tots.

Speaker 4 (01:04:40):
No, because we talked about beanie babies. As soon as
you bring up beanie babies, or Funko pops. Everyone just
goes crazy and that's.

Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
Fine, right, So let's talk about Pokemon, Johnny.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
Are you are you disappointed? No, that's that's my biggest concern.
If you're disappointed about not doing a TOTS then no,
we'll figure it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
I'm okay, I have I have my I had my
books brought up, but I'm okay. I can smell all
the books at home because we got a lot of
books and I can smell them. I give this. Uh yeah,
I don't know about this one.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
I'm all right, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
So so wasn't meant to be so Pokemon cards, like
we can talk about.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
That's what my son collects. Now, that's that's his jam
is Pokemon cards.

Speaker 1 (01:05:46):
I bought a binder, and like I want to I
wanted to say, like a re replanted, like I would
like repot a man drake. I like repotted all of
my Pokemon cards into this new Pokemon binder. And because
like our household dream is to like recollect the original
one hundred and fifty Pokemon in their original card form,

(01:06:10):
which obviously is like no easy task, but like it
just is the worst and most painful thing to say that,
like you know, we had a holographic Charizard like in
beautiful condition in our possession at one time that my
brother like gave to a camper at our day camp,

(01:06:31):
probably like fifteen years ago and thought nothing of it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
And that's a sad, said, uh thing that I have
to live with.

Speaker 4 (01:06:39):
Well, I think I think one exists at my parents'
house somewhere, because my sister pulled one and she didn't
even really care about it. And my mom had given
us like two packs, one for me, one for her,
and the one I had had some stupid like trainer
card that was this star rare card Leam, and then
she pulls the Charizard and I'm like, are you kidding me?

(01:07:00):
Like my younger sister gets the jarizard and she doesn't
even care about Pokemon.

Speaker 5 (01:07:04):
Oh No.

Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
My brother used to know how to like bend the
packs to feel whether or not it had a holographic
card in it. And we were friends with the guy
that ran the card store in our town, so we
would go, like we knew and he'd have shipments and
he would like kind of hold a box of cards
like behind the counter for us, and my brother would
feel through every single pack to find the holographic cards,

(01:07:27):
and he'd throw me a pack, and I like he'd
have a pack, and like I still have a lot
of my original cards. But the thing is is like
Nora's like little four year old brain will like take
it and then play with it for five seconds around
the house and then now I just have Pokemon cards
all over the place. Granted she doesn't have a lot
of like my original cards are not like all over

(01:07:49):
the place, but there are Pokemon cards all over this house.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
Well, just you can come from.

Speaker 3 (01:07:53):
You can get the original base set. So just don't
go for first edition, get one limit, like, don't go
for shadow lists, just get just get unlimited base set.
You can do them. They all all the same art,
and you know you can get your one fifty one there.
I mean, the Mew promo is a little paint like
Charles Ard is gonna be like a little expensive. Gangar
is a little expensive, but they're not too bad. It's

(01:08:15):
weird because modern Pokemon collecting is actually super expensive and
ridiculous now and like these weird in between the Skyridge
and all this these sets, I've I did not know
anything about Pokemon a year ago, year and a half ago,
like I knew some cursory stuff because it's been around
for a long time. My wife likes Pokemon. But now

(01:08:35):
because my son collects Pokemon, the way my brain works
is go figure everything out, go learn everything. Now I
have too much Pokemon knowledge in my head and I
don't know what to do with it. And well, it's
like okay, but well here's the good ones. Yeah, you
opened that one that's like forty two dollars, so that
was like a good pool man. All right, let's make
sure we put that in a sleeve and get into
the binder. But that's that's how we likes to collect.

(01:08:56):
He's like, all right, dad, we got a good one.
Let's put it in the binder. And that's that's nice
that his brain works that way because it makes it easy.
He doesn't want to play with him. He's just like,
all right, we got it. Put it in the binder. Yep,
it's in its spot. Look how nice it is? Like okay, cool, cool? Thanks?

Speaker 4 (01:09:13):
Yeah, And I I think people that don't get it
will never get it, like, but we get it, like
there's a spot for this, and now that I've put
it here.

Speaker 3 (01:09:23):
It's good.

Speaker 5 (01:09:23):
It's there.

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
My brain feels a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:09:25):
Now we're good, like, but you're not gonna do it
an You're like, what are you gonna do? Look at it?

Speaker 4 (01:09:30):
You're gonna look at it once every two months. Yep,
that's that's it. That's the Maybe once a year, maybe
once a year. Maybe I won't know, Maybe I won't
see it for ten years, and then I'll open it.

Speaker 5 (01:09:40):
Up and be like, Wow, I have this. This is cool.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
That's how it goes. We're building a whole, the whole
poke decks, trying to like one of each pokemon that's
ever been created. So like when he buys cards, we
have a purpose with them. It's like, okay, do we
like this art better or the other art better? Or
is this one more expensive? All right, oh this one's foil.
This one's a reverse hollow. Okay, let's put this in. Uh,
you know, so we we debate like sometimes, you know,

(01:10:04):
like I don't think that one's better. Oh no, this
one's clearly like he gets into it, and then, like
you said, we slide it in there and then the
conversation is over and we don't revisit it until we
find one that might have a better art.

Speaker 4 (01:10:17):
Yeah, no, I love that and I love that. I
think oftentimes people think about collecting is like there's one
way to collect, and there's there's just not It's just
really it's such a personal thing. Unless it's like got
to collect all seven Ninja Turtle action figures that it
says on the back of the box, then that's a
little bit, you know, there's there's not.

Speaker 5 (01:10:38):
As much flexibility to get that creative.

Speaker 4 (01:10:41):
But no, it's just it's really cool and I love
I love talking to people about collections. It's why I
love talking to Johnny about collections and stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:10:50):
That's how I met Carly. It's just it's that's how
I met her. I was just like, I want to
learn about Harry Potter collecting, and you are probably like
I reached out to her and Peter before everything was big,
and I was like, all right, I want to learn
about this, Like my wife wants to collect some translations
and I want I'm going to go out and do
the thing where I learn everything. And uh yeah. So
that's how it started for me. And now now I

(01:11:11):
know a lot about Harry Potter books, like would you
like to see my my and you have a lot
I'd like to see my French first edition with that
has the illustrations in it. Why do I know that
that Chamber of Secrets has you can get those with illustrations? Cool, guys, Cool.

Speaker 5 (01:11:27):
I know, And I don't have one of those. That's
that's one of my passively.

Speaker 4 (01:11:31):
Looking for books that by the way, thanks, I want
but don't want to spend two hundred dollars for it.

Speaker 5 (01:11:36):
Oh did you get it from? Brocky offered it to
me and I said no.

Speaker 4 (01:11:39):
Yeah, so right, guys, Well Melanie, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
So we talked to a whole lot about collecting today,
not collecting Harry Potter books, but collecting Harry Potter video
games and the similarities between collecting Harry Potter video games
and Harry Potter books, which is absolutely amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
And if you want more information on.

Speaker 1 (01:12:48):
Game collecting, definitely like check out all of Johnny's stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
Johnny, do you want.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
To plug all of your information as far as like
where everyone can find you?

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
Your podcast all that jazz?

Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
Sure, So I'm at the Collector's Quest podcast. Well, Instagram,
I'm at Johnny Auci YouTube you can find me under
Johnny Auci or Collector's Quest podcast. And you know, I
also have my own discord for patreons if you want
to come visit there. But if you just need to
reach out to me, you can reach out to me
on discord, send me a private message, or reach out
to me on Instagram. Happy to talk, happy to let

(01:13:22):
you know if your stuff is worth anything or not.
Most Harry Potter games not too expensive, so if you've
got a few yet, you're not. It's much like having
us first first editions. Not too expensive, but they're fun
to have. Please enjoy them.

Speaker 1 (01:13:37):
Yes, awesome, Yeah you could. Uh, so you can reach
out to Johnny that way. You can also, like if
you didn't want to reach out to Johnny for whatever reason,
he's in literally the nicest guy of all time, you
could reach out to us and we could put you
in contact with Johnny. So you can find Eric Nopturn Eric.
I'm at the Harry Potter Collection though, I as I've

(01:13:59):
recently discovered, I'm so bad at my Instagram, Like I
had a message from December that I didn't even realize,
Like I don't check my Instagram that often, so definitely
reach out to me at Dialogue Alli podcast or even
our Dialogue ally email or on our discord. I'm trying
to be better. You could also find Peter at the

(01:14:22):
Potter Collector. He's on vacation, Carly's on vacation. Everybody is
just having a great time. It's just a rough time
to be a teacher in September, so we don't get
to go on vacations right now. We have a website
which is Dialogue Alley dot com and we have a
really cool interactive tool that you could use on there

(01:14:42):
to value your US Harry Potter books, which is really cool.
And yeah, I mentioned our discord, but you get access
to our discord by supporting us on Patreon. So our
patreon is Patreon dot com, slash Dialogue Ali and we
have ad free episodes on that we come out with bonuses,

(01:15:04):
but it's really about connecting the Potter Collector community through
our discord is our our biggest thing.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
So we absolutely love that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:15):
And I just wanted to once again say thank you
so much to Johnny for joining us today. This was
like an awesome chat I found myself. I didn't have
video today because I'm on a different computer. So literally
I'm like sitting here with my head and my hands
like just engross listening to like I when it's not
something that I feel like I can like contribute a

(01:15:36):
crazy amount. I just love listening to other collectors talk
about how passionate they are about the things that they collect,
and you know, Harry Potter, video games are awesome, and
I thought that this was great.

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
So thank you so so much, Johnny.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
Well, you guys are very welcome. Thanks for having me on,
Thanks for everyone indulging this not book episode. I forgot
to mention you could also reach me on Dialogue Glly
Discord by just finding Johnny my name there super easy
if you're already on the Discord.

Speaker 4 (01:16:08):
I do I love having episodes Harry Potter related that
are not necessarily book related, because I do think that
part of our collection, right, we always kind of like
dabble into things that aren't necessarily book collectors because we
do just generally like Harry Potter, Right, I think most
of our jam is the book translation collecting, but I
do like Harry Potter. So if there's other stuff to

(01:16:30):
do with Harry Potter, with the exception of Funko Pops,
which is why I let you do that one when
I was gone and you filled in for me and
I didn't have to talk about that otherwise. Otherwise, there's
just always fun stuff to talk about with Harry Potter
and any.

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
Other Okay, we got legos next this part, we got
a whole lot.

Speaker 5 (01:16:47):
I love legos, so I am ready. I'm ready to
round for the lego.

Speaker 3 (01:16:51):
And then pin seeking. The oft talked about Harry Potter.
Pin seeking that was on the Harry Potter Fan Club. Yeah,
that's there is a whole exclusive line of pins you
could get. Eric, you don't have like all eighty seven
of them or whatever it is.

Speaker 5 (01:17:04):
Nope, nope, I do.

Speaker 3 (01:17:06):
Oh well, good thing. I've got a resource. I have
a resource, so I sent it to you. You you
can go look at all of them because I documented that.
Because I'm an idiot. Don't do an episode on that.
That's not no one wants that.

Speaker 5 (01:17:18):
Okay, okay, we will not.

Speaker 3 (01:17:21):
All right, guys, thanks again grabbing me on. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
Yeah, thank you, thank you so much, Johnny.

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
And with that is now time to walk back through
the archway and into her daily lives and we will
catch you next time.

Speaker 5 (01:17:34):
Bye.

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
See uh

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