Billy Chaser and Jay Hunter travel all over Texas and beyond, far from their homes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, searching for electronic artifacts housed in plastic— and people can’t get enough of their quests. Chaser and Hunter host The Game Chasers, a comedy/reality YouTube show that has grown so popular, a version of it will hit the big screen next year.
“It’s like American Pickers, but for video games,” Chaser says of the show, which has over 125,000 subscribers.
A typical episode finds the wise-cracking duo, clad in jeans and T-shirts, hitting-up garage sales, flea markets, and thrift stores, digging through boxes of Nintendo games, Sega controllers, and dusty, old Atari systems.
While filming The Game Chasers, they ’ve acquired a lot of interesting stuff, including the rare, rental-only Nintendo NES cartridge The Flintstones: Surprise at Dinosaur Peak for just $5 (it’s worth about $1,000). And they sometimes find tubs of games they need for their collections for pennies on the dollar from sellers who are just happy to get rid of the stuff.
Read the rest of this article on page 38 by clicking here!
Be sure to sign up to get Old School Gamer Magazine for free by clicking here!
