This month’s collector has an eye for the obscure, as he’s best known for his popular YouTube channel, Video Game Esoterica – a channel that highlights lesser-known games across a variety of formats. “Growing up, my father just loved playing videogames. I watched him at an arcade when I was a kid, put a quarter into a Dragon’s Lair machine and beat it from memory on a 1CC attempt,” Anthony recalls. “He just always loved games, especially the arcade. Growing up, he would just show up with, ‘Hey, the Sega Genesis is out, I brought it home,’ or, ‘The 3DO is out, let’s go pick that up.’”
However, Anthony’s collection doesn’t go back to his childhood. “I had a lot of games and systems up until about 2004, and then…
