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I've been looking for years for a good place to buy retro video games. So is Retro V Games the place for me? Well, I don't know. Alex, why, OI, are we looking at Retro V Games with their cool, GPT-like graphics At first glance, everything looks good. It's like they're saying everything right. Hey, we restore, we clean, we do it all. You buy things, we will send them to you within 1-2 days. Also, at the very top of the site it says free shipping and a one-year warranty. Things I'm looking for. So I agree.
Seems promising. Yes, there are a few more red flags. Uh, the community in general. Not a fan? Yes, there are several posts on Reddit saying not to buy from Retro V Games. I mean, that.Okay, that's always an indicator. However, I will say that sometimes the loudest voices are the most contentious, and there are many people who are happy and say nothing. So, I think it's worth taking a closer look to understand if these guys are legit and what exactly you're getting yourself into. What is your return policy? One year. Wait, what's the return policy? If you have any problems, you can exchange the item for store credit within 1 year. Click on the refund policy. The
return or refund period is 30 days. Please note, 30 days is enough. Why did you just tell me it's a year? Let's actually see what we have here, shall we? Bestseller $270 for Wii? What for Wii with Wii Sports Resort. I have a very bad feeling about this. Save $200. What are you talking about? $270 dollars? He also apparently has a 505 rating. No, it doesn't. So great with this product. The Nintendo Wii console looks great on my shelf. Verified buyer. Wait, wait. Wait, dude. This is fake, just Wow. August 31st must have been a busy day because they must have received so much feedback. Dude, they get like 22-23 people giving him a five-star review in one day for a random Wii?
Dude, that's not a yellow flag. This is a bright red, glowing flag Dude, what the hell? What the. They charge $250 for the Switch Lite. That's more than a new one costs. What are you doing? What? Why? And do you know the base color? No preferences, with a spelling error. Like really.That's bad. Actually, I'll say that if you have the letters B, A, and D next to each other, it's not as bad as what I see now. Which is a little more complicated the more you think about it . But, uh, it's good in my head So, my friends, I have my packs from Retro V Games that I want to take a closer look at. And I also have all this stuff that also didn't come from Retro V Games. What? So, to do this, we split all of our
merchandise into two different orders, two different names, two different addresses, neither of which was Austin Evans. And we received two tracking numbers that relate to these two parcels. But five more parcels also appeared. I think at the ordering stage we could have assumed that the prices were so high that it was probably dropshipping. Well, I can tell you that these items were almost certainly dropshipped. So, these packages are from Good Games Fast in Ohio, D&D Deals in Florida, Jack in Texas, Bryson in Kentucky, and Megan in Oklahoma. I think it seems incredibly obvious that a significant portion of the items we purchased from Retro V Games were simply going to eBay, searching for the item,
clicking "buy now," and providing a shipping address to my address. I don't know how you feel about this, but when I pay huge amounts of money on your site for inspection, cleaning, packaging, and all that stuff, I could just buy it on eBay myself if that were the case. So I want to get to the heart of this. But before we do that, let's see what Retro V Games themselves sent us, and whether any of it was even remotely worth it. So, we have a game that I'm actually excited about . This is 4x4 Evo 2. I had it on PC and played all of it and it actually looks pretty good. Okay, we have her and the Wii.
We also have something similar to an Xbox controller, but without the Xbox in this kit. How do we know this? Could we know? Uh, we have a copy of Super Smash Brothers Brawl. So we bought not only the console, but also a game for each console to review everything together. So they gave us a copy of Brawl. So this is our supposedly new 3DS. Remember, your console comes with a 121-day free warranty. Wait, isn't that 365 days, which is a year? Did I miss that? If you have any problems, you can exchange the part or get store credit within 1 year. The refund or reimbursement period is 30 days. Well, I feel like this is one of those videos
that we really need to pay attention to, because there are so many items scattered haphazardly throughout all those boxes. We need to unpack everything and make sure that it's all really here and working. And then a whole bunch of stuff for the Wii. Okay, of course. So this is box number one from Retro V Games, which is about half of one order. Box number two directly from Retro V Games, unlike anything else we've received. We have a PS1 controller that is authentic And that's it So this entire box was just the PS1, literally nothing else. Everything else was probably delivered by direct delivery, probably from eBay. So from here we just need to dive in, figure it out and try
to reverse engineer, do we have all our stuff? And does it work? So, the first packaging for a console that I don't have yet. Wonderful, wonderful. So this is, uh, our game for the Sega Master System. A. So Retro V Games paid an eBay seller 14.99 cents to send me a copy of Gran Turismo 2. Okay. So let's continue. Two boxes left. I think we're missing a lot of things for two more boxes. Good. Next, we will reveal whatever it is.
Decent packaging. So, this is our Master System. Good. It's very clear that this is just direct delivery. They didn't have a Master System or the game, so they just went on eBay and bought it. This is funny. I'll say this: Oh. That's great. Oh no. This is a LEGO set, baby. Maybe everything is okay. Maybe everything is Perhaps. What for What? There is a problem. Hmm, that's the only detail you really need. Good. Well, that's probably not a good thing. I will withhold judgment until we know more. I don't want to talk. I will hold my tongue. It seems to me that you could start
judging now. Yes, I judged. What could give you reason to judge now? Good. So, this is our last box. Oh, okay. I see, I see a lot. Presentation-Xbox. Let's actually see if these guys work for the price we paid, and then we can figure out exactly how this happened. Oh no. Let's start with the Wii. Hey, let's go. OK. That is, I'm not really upset that they gave me a third-party Wii remote. I mean, at least it's new, even though it seems a bit cheap. For the most part, he is normal. So far
, everything seems to be fine. Let's try it with a copy of Brawl. Good. Let's see. Is the disk drive working? Very smoothly. An error occurred. Please press the eject button, remove the disc, then turn off the Wii console and troubleshoot. Okay, then we'll remove it. And again I was like, "Oh, my God. " Bring this disc a little closer." I didn't even look at him. What the hell is this? This disc is completely cracked. Very, very clearly cracked. Let's try a game that I know definitely works because we actually had one on the Wii a month ago.
Wii system update. Wait, what? So this Wii came directly from Retro V Games, right? Hmm, like this copy of Brawl. So you can't blame it on eBay as a seller. It was them. This is after quality control. Oh, yes, I forgot. Oh, wait, what? Oh, oh, oh, oh. That's it. I understand. Good. If I hold it at this angle, everything is fine. I think at this point I'm confident that the Wii is functional. How much will we pay for.Let's start with Brawl. How much will we pay for a copy of Smash Brothers Brawl? I think I got a little excited.
We paid $47. Yes. Uh, what if it was a worker? How much does it cost? Honestly, somewhere around $20. So you're telling me I paid twice as much for a copy of a cracked game? Yes. I mean the case with the instructions Cover. How much will we pay for this? Good. Yes. Okay, maybe not a very good start, okay? But at least the Wii is intact, and our drive is split into two parts. At this point in the video, no amount of positivity will resolve my disappointment. But let's find out anyway. So, we have our original Xbox. Let's try it, okay?
Xbox. Profile, I always win. I always kill you, school bus driver. Oh, you know, maybe I should stop reading. Actually, wait, wait. Steeply. At first glance, the Xbox does seem to work, but let's see if the 4x4 Evo works. Notice how I pressed the eject button on the disk and nothing happened. I'll just.do it again so everyone can see it. This is the sound of the disk drive trying to open. Oh, wait, what about the swivel mechanism? I could probably take a rotary mechanism and do that. I'm like a lock picker now. Don't say I didn't try. Here, let me do a simple thing.
You know what? Sometimes, when you're 25, it doesn't work the first time. You know, you need to get out of bed and say, "Yeah Trucks, buddy. Two- player mode. Wait, who wants to play? Me. How do we change? I win. Catch up, loser. Wait. We're on the road too. We don't have to drive on the road. That's the whole point. You can just wander around, wherever you want I thought I was going to win the race now. Uh, there's no race. What are you talking about? How much are we paying for the 4x4 Evo 2? We paid $15. I think it's worth it. It's intact and in the box. I don't know if anyone else besides me wants to play this game, but how much are we going to pay for our
dropshipped, mostly functional original Xbox? We paid $240, guys. I think that's more than DKOldies. You can get one for about $185 on DKOldies right now. Why Shouldn't we talk about this when we're done with the rest of the merchandise? Because I'm trying really hard to keep the internal voices in check. No, say it. This, my friends, is our new standard 3DS. Not the XL. A little scuffed on the outside and pretty scuffed on the inside. I feel like if you took 5 minutes, you could just take the panels off, just give
them a good wipe down, because this is actually from Retro V Games. The screen has. Wow, yeah, it's not very good. There's a white spot on the screen here at the bottom. So, I'm not sure how well it shows up on the camera, but there's some kind of little pixel, some kind of backlight blur or something. I'm squinting right now. Of course, the most important thing we need to do is check out this awesome 3DS camera. There's something about this 3DS camera that's just fun, man. It's pretty fun. Also, I just realized that the hinge is pretty worn out. Imagine you're in a car, and here what you see. Let's try to play the game to make sure it's fully functional. I mean,
it works, at least. Um, and that little hot spot on the bottom screen, it's not that bad. So I know we paid a lot for this, but I actually think we might have done a pretty good job with it. So remember, this was part of a Minecraft bundle. Of course, it was part of a bundle with a game that didn't come with it. Yeah. That's right. As for the bundle, yeah. We paid $330. We definitely overpaid without the game. The condition is not great. I think if I paid about $300 for a really clean new 3DS, I would actually be about right, because that's what I think is the going price. The problem is, in this condition, I'm guessing
it's probably worth about $230, $240, maybe $250. Hey, I don't know how else to say it. It's in really bad shape. It's not good. Okay. So this PlayStation that was from Retro V Games, let's see if it wants to work. The good thing is that the disc trays on them don't actually break. The lasers and motors do break, but at least you can always get your disc out when you break your PlayStation. These discs came, even though they were all supposedly from the same set, these discs came from different vendors. So Gran Turismo 2 came from one, and Gran Turismo 1 came from another.
Everybody, everybody, do it, everybody. Sorry, but I have to do what I have to do to win. Oh, okay, we're not. God, this console is so flawed. This game works. We know it works. Why don't we try Gran Turismo 1, just to make sure everything works? Oh, God, it's so funny to do it in a row and see how different the physics are. Oh my God, man. How are they all so fast? Take them. Take them now. We don't need a replay. We. Nobody wants to see this. It's all good. But. Oh. Yeah, now the power is back on in the studio, and we know our PlayStation is working. Let's continue. So we paid for the bundle, which is a PlayStation 1 and two games, $155.
You have to take a hit where you can get it sometimes in life. Let's get our main system out. Oh no, I forgot. It's going to work. I believe. That's the most important thing. This is the main system itself. It's all just decoration. And you think this is still working when the whole case is down. No, no. Look, look at this. It actually fits nicely. I don't know where the power button went, but so we're going to put this down carefully. Okay. We're going to load the game. Oh, okay, it's in. Yeah, it's all good. We're completely. Look, we're back. Oh. Like new.
Barely used. Not a scratch. Okay, let's play Space Harrier on our fully functional main system. Don't look too closely. It just doesn't look like a remastered Afterburner, and I know some people might be upset about it . I'm kind of going from flying to running on the ground. Don't worry about it. It's fine. What can we say? Really, what can we say? Help me. What can I say? Um, how much did we pay for our main system and how much did we pay for a copy of Space Harrier? By the way, both were sold directly. Neither of them were from Retro Video Games. So we paid $40 for this game.
I have no idea how much a copy of Space Harrier costs. Uh, it's kind of chaotic, but I'd say about $10 on the low end and $20 on the high end Space Harrier is awful. I see. What about the Master System? How, how, how, how did it go? Well, there's a reason I started with the Space Harrier. Uh, we spent. Wait, I. I can't watch. Wait. I just got ahead of myself. We spent $270. Oh, okay. Listen, I. Oh, okay. I'll say that shipping errors happen And this really seems like a really, really good example of how we can test something that, I don't quite understand, works, which is a warranty. They
said 121 days, they said one year. I mean, it's one day, and it's already shipped a million units. And then, I think it's time to send our friends at RetroV Games a little letter and say, "Hey, what the.?" It's been three weeks since we unboxed, and I don't have as many updates for you as I would like. So, I guess to start, we're finally, after a week of extra waiting, which is came out about three weeks after everything else, got a copy of Minecraft for the 3DS. You know what's funny? I haven't actually opened it yet. I mean, it was clearly Minecraft, right? Yeah, Minecraft for the new 3DS. So we got the game, but it was weird because it was supposed to come bundled with the 3DS, so it was supposed to come out together for
so long. So because we didn't know when everything was going to come out, we waited another couple of weeks, and it was still another week before the game actually came out. So okay, that's it. But technically we got what we bought. But then things go haywire, guys. So the Master System that arrived was shattered into a million pieces, and we went to them and asked for a refund or a return. And the process, as you might not be surprised, wasn't so smooth. The next day they said, "Yeah, no problem. We'll give you a return shipping label." And then we got it nine weeks later. days. So they gave us a return label, so we packed it up and sent it in. That was over two weeks ago, and we haven't heard anything since. So
as of now, we don't have a new Master System, no refund or anything like that. They supposedly had it for a while, but they didn't. Because Alex, we didn't send it back to Retro V Games. No, the return label they sent us was directly to the eBay seller they bought it from It's not even that subtle. Retro V Games, while they clearly have some items in stock, most of this stuff is just bought from eBay sellers, right? It just seems so obvious. And you can imagine how annoyed I am that I bought a Sega Master System and it's been three weeks and I still haven't gotten my money back. I do n't even know what's going on. I supposedly got a package. It was delivered a week and a half ago.
Yes, it's been over a month since we first ordered it, which means, that if I really needed this Master System for anything, I would just be SOL. So, since so many of these items were only coming from eBay sellers, some of whom had their names directly on the packaging, Alex, you reached out to a few people, right? Yeah, I reached out to everyone I could clearly identify. Yeah. And one of them actually responded, and I was able to ask him some really interesting questions. It's good that you heard from the eBay seller who sent us the package that we purchased from Retro V Games?
They're not against repeat purchases. So, you know, Retro V Games is a regular customer of theirs. But on a personal level, they think it's basically a scam, you know, the fact that they're charging these inflated prices; they'd like more people to buy directly from eBay sellers that you can trust and all that. Yeah. So, as you might not be surprised to learn, we have some serious reservations about Retro-V Games. So I reached out to them directly. Four days ago, I emailed them the results of our video, asked them to comment on whether they were dropshipping, even though we have very clear evidence that they were, and some warranty terms. And you probably won't be surprised to learn that
they didn't respond. So here's the thing Retro-V Games is a bunch of scoundrels, which is just funny to say. But there's literally nothing decent about this site. Obviously, our orders were different. We ordered under different aliases, different addresses, and, you know, we ordered a lot of things, right? If you order one or two things, it's probably not that hard to track them down. But I just. We look at a lot of these things, and Retro-V Games is one of the worst sellers of retro video games that we've ever seen. If you make Joey and the guys look good, you know what? You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and rethink your life decisions.
