@@LyonsArcade Even a resurfacer cannot fix those scratches that are around the circumference of the disk. The data is read from the inside of the disk to the outside, so if the inside has too many scratches or too deep ones, your disk is done. To be honest, if I were to bet, I'd say about 60% if what you have is indeed savable and is worth the investment into the disk resurfacer. If a scratch is vertical, it's not a big issue, unless it's a deep one. Those that run the length of the disk are the ones that tend to KO disks for good. I used to work at Blockbuster, and we had a 1100.00$ "professional" resurfacer. A bunch of bunk it was, as the machine sounded like a tornado when it ran, chewed up our disks, and smelled like vinegar and acetone mixed together with garlic added in. Good luck though, if you save at least forty or so of those disks, you've paid for your machine! Also, Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem is worth the price of the machine alone.
this disk resurficer only works on scratched disks what you see here is the foil layer litterly rotting away There is nothing left here to recover. Put it all in the trash and be done with it. This is about as bad as disk rot gets. Even minor disk rot will ireparibly destroy a disk What has happened is moisture has worked its way between the layers of the disk and caused the foil to oxidize. Bolth destroying the reflective part of the disk and causing it to delaminate. Ether one is instantly fatal to a disk. The chances of saving any of this is about as close to nil as it gets. Not even worth trying. If your already planing on getting the resurfacing machine go for it but it will do nothing for these disks. Resurfacing is just shaving a layer off the CD to remove scratches.
I found an old box of nes games in my grandmas shed and she lives in an area where it can get really hot. Those games have been in that shed for probably more than 20 years and the fact that they work is a gigantic miracle
These were put into a storage space that got way too hot and stayed that way. Most likely, these were in a storage unit with no climate control, or an attic, and the summer heat trashed them. It's not uncommon for some spaces to reach well over 100F if they're in direct sunlight.
It seems like it may have been heat, and then water, some of them look damaged one way and others damaged another way. I wish they would have taken better care of them! Thank you for watching!!!
No, moisture. Basement. I have seen this often. A disc resurfacer polishes the glossy transparent part of the disc, removing scuffs and scratches. These discs have corrosion on the actual data layer itself and no amount of resurfacing will repair them.
Anyone I knew who had games in big old CD cases like this I immediately was either suspicious of or scared to have around. Folks like that tend to be pretty sketchy and or have sticky fingers.
This is insane, I’ve literally got games and dvds that are 20-30+ years that work as well as the day they were first purchased. It’s not hard to look after discs, haha.
@@svenolson7784 literally not hard to pick up the disk from the sides like your suppose to grease or not. I ate all kinds of things growing up and mine are just as good too because I handled them properly and put them back where they belonged when I was done. That’s why everything has a purpose.
i think that this case might have been through some tough times, like in the sun, maybe water or even fire, i don't think that it's just the way the last owner taked care of them. You know 20-30+ years anything could happen, your house can catch on fire, and so on so forth...
I’m a hardcore Gamecube collector, so this video is extremely painful. I’m just glad you didn’t pull out a copy of a rare game like Cubivore or Gotcha Force. I’m going to go give all my Gamecube games a hug now.
I have a GC and about 35 Games, many I bought new at the time, and they still look new!! ( though not a Hardcore collector myself)) was playing Eternal Darkness the other day, !!!
Gonna go hug my lonely Sonic Adventure 2 Battle;) I'm a wii collector mostly, but I'm glad to have a GC game just to know what it looks and feels like.
There's got to be one heck of a story behind this that's for sure. A house fire, a huge game collection abandoned in a storage locker. Something really strange.
Most of those are dumpster dive disks from GameStop IMO. Remember back when they would have thousands of disk games, disk only in yellow paper envelopes with the clear front? The ones that sat for 3 months and didn't sell, were moved up front to a discount tub, where most of the time they rotted away and then a month later, tossed out into the dumpster. A lot of the damage looks like typical damage we were instructed to do to prevent dumpster divers from selling the games back to us (lol) which did happen a lot. We were not allowed to take the games home (SMH) what a waste. For the other disks, we never checked trade-ins to see if they worked ever, it was deemed a waste of the customer's time so we checked disks later after the customer was taken care of, we would throw away at least 20 games away each week due to them not working, that's the only theory I have for the AAA titles. Discs would get rained on in the dumpster, heat ETC. But divers still came every day lmao. Just a theory and probably not the case here lol but I amassed a huge collection of garbage tier Nintendo DS CIB from dumpster diving our own store lol. Anything under $2.99 that sat for more than 3 months was thrown out and deemed a waste of space lol.
Gamestop had employee's cut up disks. The damage on the vast majority of these disks is degradation on the part of the cd that holds information, which IMO, was probably caused by this cd case being left in a car or hot storage unit too long.
Too many of these titles would never have got down that low in price though. Zelda, Pokémon and Smash Bros titles. I don’t know how these games could have ended up like this. Like how long in a hot environment would these have to sit or how hot would they need to get? I don’t think anyone would put discs this damaged into a case so I would assume they were damaged once in the case so I’m just at a loss for what could have happened. So many of those titles would have easily sold quickly. Unfortunately I think the only explanation would be someone taking advantage of people by putting them into a old cheap case and trying to sell it to someone who wasn’t knowledgeable in the area enough to check but knew that the games had some value. I really want to know what happened because the quantity is suspicious.
@@ClusterPhoque Gamestop is a great example of end-stage capitalism. This is a company who failed at preparing for the future so poorly that they didnt have the foresight to realize and understand they could have potentially withheld all those games and stored them, to later on, control their values on the secondary market.
What makes me disagree with your theory is the quality of some of the games. Melee? Super Monkey Ball? Kirby's Air Ride, all kinds of Sonic. Idk who was missing out on these at the gamestop.
That’s so sad, GameCube games are already expensive as is. The last thing we need is less in the world. *edit* I almost puked when I saw one Melee copy, then a saw another, and another, and another, and Jesus Christ I need a new keyboard now!
A few yes but its the collectors that drive the prices up I was collecting alot but slowly stopped because any copy of a game you may be interested sobs ask twice what its actually worth in market value today like 90 for mario party 4 or 5 games great and all but realistically 40 to 50$ cib. Coming from a collector that's what everyones cinna want to pay cause that's what it's worth
I have several GC games, and most of them I got for lik 2USD. The most expensive game I bought (on a flee market) was SSB Melee, and Metal gear, and I think it cost me 9USD for both of them 😁
Horrible tragedy for these amazing pieces of history to be destroyed but you could like make a badass table top with these just clear lacquer over them and I bet it would be worth a ton if done right
I think that could work, but then I'd have to worry about people thinking that I destroyed perfectly good games to make them into artwork :) Thank you for watching!!!!
@@LyonsArcade It's quite a unique circumstance to have these many games in an otherwise unusable condition, so +1 for the idea of making something cool, like a table, with it!
@@LyonsArcade don't be sour, make lemonade, I think it would look really cool to see all those hung up on a wall. You could even make something with like a picture in the middle and some of those discs all around it in a frame and sell that
That’s exactly how all of my CDs from the 90s look. I had them in a big sleeve case like this. The case sat in my car in the Texas heat for years and years. I think you’re right about heat.
@@screweduptx512 I've been to Texas mid Summer and as an Australian I can tell you.. Texas is like living in a very mild climate. The sun in Texas has very little power compared to the real deal down here. Enough to kill a CD.. sure :) but that doesn't take a lot
Wow! RIP Gamecube games. Also that poor Gamecube trying to read all those games. Throughout the whole video I was thinking the discs would make a great art project! lol.
@@lumer2b All media can die if poorly kept, carts are just much more resilient to regular use damage though. I had trouble with my NES reading games as a kid too, but that was usualy not the cartridge's fault, but the ZIF connectors in the cartridge slot bending over time setting off the 10NES lockout chip. The Japanese Famicom which lacked both the same connector and lockout chip did not have that trouble.
@@JunkyNinety5ive hahaha, tell me about it! MORE than half of these games won't EXIST if we don't copy them and or just fix what's we're doing wrong DESTROYING all these MASTERPIECES! :'(((((((
I found a GameCube and 8 controllers with about 50 games at a yard sale about a month ago was driving by and saw a lady setting up for the sale asked if she had and video game stuff it was all in 4 boxes sold me all of it for 50 bucks but not one smash bro but a lot of good games I was going to flip all of it till I got it home and tested it all out now it’s going to start my collection
Not even a month in and we have a notable contender for most tragic video of 2020. Some of these games are _not_ cheap! Edit: This comment aged like milk
I never thought of it being water damage, you'd think water couldn't get inside of it so they'd be fine, but perhaps the edges aren't sealed? Or maybe when the water dries it causes the damage... thank you for watching, we appreciate it!
Also, these books for CD's or DVD's are known to bleed out their chemicals over time. Some discs react badly to this, that's why I never store originals there.
Joe's Classic Video Games unfortunately no, I’ve been waiting to reward my son for an all A and B report card, and kind of monitoring the price. That’s the game he wants.
Porter Rockwell, thank you random internet stranger telling me how to spend the money I work for. I will totally take your advice and not tell you to piss off! Nope, not me... (I do have a savings dude...)
@@meseone920 yea, GC games are pretty ridiculous sometimes. Doesn't help Melee is more than what it cost new back in the day because of the Smash FGC. And Nintendo developed games are always over the 40 dollar mark when complete in box.
*Last game tested fails. *Price is Right horn plays. I remember seeing a table where someone put a bunch of 45 records down, then covered them with maybe a half inch layer of urethane so you could see them through the surface.
i've had ps1 games with this same issue, where you could see thru most of it when held to a light, all i did was paint over the front surface of the disc with a matte black paint and it worked again, so not sure if its the labels disintigrating or what, but if they are see thru, the laser can't read it?
I was under the impression that the information was inside the actual reflective layer, and since it was gone the information was gone... but people have been informing me that the information is invisible and still there inside the clear layer... I didn't know that so I didn't try replacing the reflective layer, that's interesting, thanks for the idea! We appreciate you watching!
@@LyonsArcade actually for DVDs(and GameCube games since they are based on DVDs ( the information in between manufacturers the layers of plastic, so honestly there's a ok chance a sharpie could fix it, even for cds for the information stored on the top layer, it's actually pressed into the plastic itself and the silver is just a protective coating
That shouldn't be physically possible because the data is stored in the top layer closest to the label and once it's gone it's gone. It would be like ripping a chunk of data out of a program and expecting it to work.
If you're feeling mischievous, you could take some of those to a retro game convention and drop them around the place for lols (it's just a prank bruh)
I got my first GameCube for Christmas in either 2005 or 2006. A few games came with it, and here are the ones that I remember getting with it: Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut, Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, Sonic Mega Collection, Sonic Heroes, Mario Party 7, Super Mario Sunshine, Luigi's Mansion, Kirby Air Ride, Donkey Konga, Animal Crossing, Madagascar and The Incredibles.
He probably baught the whole pack for $5 and thought he could flip it for hundreds, haha the old gamestop flip the guy who sold the BROKE games still got ripped off lol
Looks like it might of been left out in a garage or storage room that didnt have temperature control, perhaps was in a box on the ground. Box ended up getting wet at some point. With the temp going up and down. Just ended up ruining the discs. I have had CDs and DVDS in cases like theses in past. Moved and put stuff in storage room. Had the storage room for a little over 2 years while I moved to Apt. GOt a house, and moved all the stuff from Storage room into House. Found out some boxes got wet at some point. plus I didnt pay extra for the inside temp control. we ended up with some very very hot days. and cold days. but about 90% of the CDs and DVDs didnt work or wont work anymore. They looked Similar to what you are showing on the gamecube games. This is why you do NOT put Electronics, CDs, DvDs, VHS, Into Storage rooms that arent temp controlled
I'm guessing those discs were probably stored in a hot attic for years. The case that they were stored in probably had something stacked on top of it may caused the warping .
idiot....thats a scam and illegal to do that(selling broken discs).....also thats on him for not verifying the discs quality b4 giving the guy any money
@@fluffyminecraftpigs i prefer not treat it as a joke ;)....then again....i did indeed rush reply without thinking ;) had other stuff on my mind so didn't rly pay attention to the way he formulated his sentence....so ya my reply wasn't exactly adequate(should been neutral instead of aggresive).....so i accept the idiot title for this time XD
It is the reflective layer degradation, as it oxidizes.. It will happen to all CDs eventually, just heat speeds it up. Keep your CDs in vacuum or other non reactive gas containment.
yeah, ive seen that on CDs that have been sitting in cars too long. id say that case have been sitting in a hot/cold car, on another note, some discs can actually be a ilttle see through and still work. especially discs made cheap with thinner metal coating.
@@emprsnm9903 kinda looks like rust stains on the case? poor storage for sure.. and the discs were probably broken even before that. having discs in a case like that is just bad.
It definitely looks like it had something to do with heat, that would explain why a few of them were actually warped too.... thank you for watching, we appreciate it!!!!
I never thought of it being water damage, you'd think water couldn't get inside of it so they'd be fine, but perhaps the edges aren't sealed? Or maybe when the water dries it causes the damage... thank you for watching, we appreciate it!
since the front still seems nice on the majority of them, I think you could make something cool with them, like glueing them together as a mobilee or put them between two panes of glass as a table. If you put a lot of games in there, maybe you could sell it with a nice profit
Did you do anything with them? There's a rock bar I know that has these really cool tables, where they've laid out a bunch of old records on the top then poured clear resin over them.
That happens when you store any kind of disc or DVD inside one of those damn "DVD-storage-bags". They're waaay to cheap, catch a lot of humidity and as you can see, long term, end up damaging the discs. Buy multi dvd cases instead, the ones with trays. You may no get as much storage space for the same money, but your discs will live forever. I rather leave a disc in the original case and inside a plastic bag for preservation, but for some titles that I play often, I store the original case and leave the disc in a multi-dvd-case for easy access.
Thats 100% heat damage. Back in late 90s when kids didn't understand burning CDs they would put a blank disc on top of a music cd or PS games then would take heat source to them and that's what a heat gun would make them look like. Probably left in a hot car, some kind of storage for a long time or was in a fire.
I suspect these were damaged by fire. I have a similar CD book that has been kept in my various cars in hot climates for many years and none have suffered any damage.
Cd rot usually begins from center to outward , heat would at least flex or warp the disc out of shape , i think these were from a dealer using resurfacer and then they started to deteriorate
It definitely looks like it had something to do with heat, that would explain why a few of them were actually warped too.... thank you for watching, we appreciate it!!!!
Humidity killed them. I’ve left DVD CD outside and they go all blotchy like that. Water and mould gets inside between the layers. I’m sure glad their not mine. I look after my stuff so that they always work and have resale value.
Somebody probably had one of those expensive machines that would buff out all the scratches and was providing a service to restore scratched disks and these are all the disks that were unsaveable so they ended up in a reject pile. The service was common at used game stores around the time of the GameCube.
Damn thems some expensive coasters. Only recommendation I'd make is maybe get yourself one of them phone stands like what Spawn Wave has so when you dig through the cd bag you can get through em faster.
Username checks out... .It definitely looks like it had something to do with heat, that would explain why a few of them were actually warped too.... thank you for watching, we appreciate it!!!!
If the dye of the divets on the plastic from the manufacture press master, you may be able to resilver coat them like in NileRed when he made silver coated ordimants.
This doesn't pain me as much as a friend of a friend told me that when her mother passed away her mother had video games in almost every room and the garage was full of sealed video games and she just threw them in garbage because she didn't think people would want old games. I asked her if she lives under a rock and she gave me a look of distain. I just said to her well at least I wasn't the one that threw away millions of dollars.
those discs have been resurfaced so many times, that the data layer has been ground completely away, revealing the artwork on the other side. though some are definitely just rotten.
I think it could be, that they tried to resurface them and couldn't fix them, so some place had all the broken games stored in this case, then after that the case was damaged somehow with heat or water, leaving everything this bad off. I don't think it was a collection of working games at any time.... Thanks for watching, we appreciate it!!!
Dude, you blew my mind at the end when you mentioned that each stack of discs had the same number of games in it. Really shows just how degraded a lot of them were!
@@LyonsArcade ive never microwaved any of my games but the way a microwave works, the way the discs are warped and speckled and the case being melted yadda yadda. just some armchair CSI stufff lol
Before Angry Gamer Rage videos went viral the previous owner went insane over losing too many matches in smash bros and rampaged grinding 250 GameCube games into oblivion whilst laughing maniacally.
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This is the BEST disc Resurfacer, think it will fix any of these? amzn.to/2Oqwsvv
Joe's Classic Video Games I think it would be worth a try
A couple people have recommended it...
@@LyonsArcade Even a resurfacer cannot fix those scratches that are around the circumference of the disk. The data is read from the inside of the disk to the outside, so if the inside has too many scratches or too deep ones, your disk is done. To be honest, if I were to bet, I'd say about 60% if what you have is indeed savable and is worth the investment into the disk resurfacer. If a scratch is vertical, it's not a big issue, unless it's a deep one. Those that run the length of the disk are the ones that tend to KO disks for good. I used to work at Blockbuster, and we had a 1100.00$ "professional" resurfacer. A bunch of bunk it was, as the machine sounded like a tornado when it ran, chewed up our disks, and smelled like vinegar and acetone mixed together with garlic added in.
Good luck though, if you save at least forty or so of those disks, you've paid for your machine! Also, Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem is worth the price of the machine alone.
not a chance in hell this be for scratches not this damage wich is to the data layer itself
this disk resurficer only works on scratched disks what you see here is the foil layer litterly rotting away There is nothing left here to recover. Put it all in the trash and be done with it. This is about as bad as disk rot gets. Even minor disk rot will ireparibly destroy a disk What has happened is moisture has worked its way between the layers of the disk and caused the foil to oxidize. Bolth destroying the reflective part of the disk and causing it to delaminate. Ether one is instantly fatal to a disk. The chances of saving any of this is about as close to nil as it gets. Not even worth trying. If your already planing on getting the resurfacing machine go for it but it will do nothing for these disks. Resurfacing is just shaving a layer off the CD to remove scratches.
There's a special place in hell for people who manage games like this.
Yup!
Saw a pic of a destroyed gamecube someone used as an ashtray, like opened up the top where the disc goes and straight ashed a couple packs into it
Why would someone uae a gamecube as a fucking ashtray
@@dennisretroplays I saw the pic too, it probably didn't work anymore.
xFlamedrifterx faxx bro
My theory is the whole bag was microwaved by an angry girlfriend.
Other people have said that, man yall must have some wild women in your life :)
Or possibly in an attic or near a water heater. Some of those have spores
I'm guessing it was left in a car during the summer. Also, those large cd cases can also scratch those discs if moved around often.
@@LyonsArcade I was totally going to say the same thing...they look like they were microwaved. I am sure it was an act of vengeance on someone's part.
I found an old box of nes games in my grandmas shed and she lives in an area where it can get really hot. Those games have been in that shed for probably more than 20 years and the fact that they work is a gigantic miracle
These were put into a storage space that got way too hot and stayed that way. Most likely, these were in a storage unit with no climate control, or an attic, and the summer heat trashed them. It's not uncommon for some spaces to reach well over 100F if they're in direct sunlight.
It seems like it may have been heat, and then water, some of them look damaged one way and others damaged another way. I wish they would have taken better care of them! Thank you for watching!!!
No, moisture. Basement. I have seen this often. A disc resurfacer polishes the glossy transparent part of the disc, removing scuffs and scratches. These discs have corrosion on the actual data layer itself and no amount of resurfacing will repair them.
Everyone had that one friend who bragged about having 100s of games, then he brings out a pile like that
Bwah that's right, LOL "Dude they're in a garbage bag!"
Anyone I knew who had games in big old CD cases like this I immediately was either suspicious of or scared to have around.
Folks like that tend to be pretty sketchy and or have sticky fingers.
I was one of them lol
@@JohnDoe-kv3kd I think Scott the Woz made a joke about those people in his game collecting video
@@functional200
That sounds pretty familiar.
It's a pretty common thing apparently.
I feel a disturbance in the force, as if millions were crying out...
Pretty much lots of darkness in those piles!
Damian Perry that’s why i suddenly woke up with a tear in my eyes, this is the reason...!!
Last time you were the Master, Now I am the Master!!!!!!!
This was tough to watch no doubt
This is insane, I’ve literally got games and dvds that are 20-30+ years that work as well as the day they were first purchased. It’s not hard to look after discs, haha.
It is if you're a greasy handed little kid 😂😂
@@svenolson7784 literally not hard to pick up the disk from the sides like your suppose to grease or not. I ate all kinds of things growing up and mine are just as good too because I handled them properly and put them back where they belonged when I was done. That’s why everything has a purpose.
Water and sunlight are two things that will tear your disc's up
So the bag had some rough surfaces which would be fine if there were full sized disks in there that barely move?
i think that this case might have been through some tough times, like in the sun, maybe water or even fire, i don't think that it's just the way the last owner taked care of them. You know 20-30+ years anything could happen, your house can catch on fire, and so on so forth...
I’m a hardcore Gamecube collector, so this video is extremely painful. I’m just glad you didn’t pull out a copy of a rare game like Cubivore or Gotcha Force. I’m going to go give all my Gamecube games a hug now.
I have a GC and about 35 Games, many I bought new at the time, and they still look new!! ( though not a Hardcore collector myself)) was playing Eternal Darkness the other day, !!!
In general the Gamecube stuff holds up pretty well, I think these were just horribly abused.
Gonna go hug my lonely Sonic Adventure 2 Battle;) I'm a wii collector mostly, but I'm glad to have a GC game just to know what it looks and feels like.
Same
There's got to be one heck of a story behind this that's for sure.
A house fire, a huge game collection abandoned in a storage locker. Something really strange.
At this point they're probably only good for throwing like frisbees
I think you're right!
They'd make awesome drink coasters. Laminate them and add some cork to the bottom.
Or art projects
Most of those are dumpster dive disks from GameStop IMO. Remember back when they would have thousands of disk games, disk only in yellow paper envelopes with the clear front? The ones that sat for 3 months and didn't sell, were moved up front to a discount tub, where most of the time they rotted away and then a month later, tossed out into the dumpster. A lot of the damage looks like typical damage we were instructed to do to prevent dumpster divers from selling the games back to us (lol) which did happen a lot. We were not allowed to take the games home (SMH) what a waste. For the other disks, we never checked trade-ins to see if they worked ever, it was deemed a waste of the customer's time so we checked disks later after the customer was taken care of, we would throw away at least 20 games away each week due to them not working, that's the only theory I have for the AAA titles. Discs would get rained on in the dumpster, heat ETC. But divers still came every day lmao.
Just a theory and probably not the case here lol but I amassed a huge collection of garbage tier Nintendo DS CIB from dumpster diving our own store lol. Anything under $2.99 that sat for more than 3 months was thrown out and deemed a waste of space lol.
Gamestop had employee's cut up disks.
The damage on the vast majority of these disks is degradation on the part of the cd that holds information, which IMO, was probably caused by this cd case being left in a car or hot storage unit too long.
Too many of these titles would never have got down that low in price though. Zelda, Pokémon and Smash Bros titles. I don’t know how these games could have ended up like this. Like how long in a hot environment would these have to sit or how hot would they need to get? I don’t think anyone would put discs this damaged into a case so I would assume they were damaged once in the case so I’m just at a loss for what could have happened. So many of those titles would have easily sold quickly. Unfortunately I think the only explanation would be someone taking advantage of people by putting them into a old cheap case and trying to sell it to someone who wasn’t knowledgeable in the area enough to check but knew that the games had some value. I really want to know what happened because the quantity is suspicious.
Yet here YOU are
@@ClusterPhoque Gamestop is a great example of end-stage capitalism.
This is a company who failed at preparing for the future so poorly that they didnt have the foresight to realize and understand they could have potentially withheld all those games and stored them, to later on, control their values on the secondary market.
What makes me disagree with your theory is the quality of some of the games. Melee? Super Monkey Ball? Kirby's Air Ride, all kinds of Sonic. Idk who was missing out on these at the gamestop.
You just paid that guy to throw out his trash for him :(
He's a genius!
LOL
Youre a horrible buyer. You shoulda checked before buying dude
I literally moved my games out of our attic today to avoid them getting ruined from heat and now this video popped up, this is such a bummer.
yeah it sucks! It's good you got yours out of there though!
Zuckerberg is watching 😜
You own a physical copy of the game now. Broken or not. Now you can use ROMs of them legally.
I can't imagine someone having more than one of the same game in their collection so probably a business fire or storage fire and they saved this
Yeah I think it was somebody that sold them or something...
@@LyonsArcade I had same with ps1-2 Xbox 360 games 300 games total
@@LyonsArcade threw me in trash
That’s so sad, GameCube games are already expensive as is. The last thing we need is less in the world.
*edit* I almost puked when I saw one Melee copy, then a saw another, and another, and another, and Jesus Christ I need a new keyboard now!
Yeah, think how I feel!
@@Dirty_Bear22 the physical discs w the case and booklet was half the experience.
A few yes but its the collectors that drive the prices up I was collecting alot but slowly stopped because any copy of a game you may be interested sobs ask twice what its actually worth in market value today like 90 for mario party 4 or 5 games great and all but realistically 40 to 50$ cib. Coming from a collector that's what everyones cinna want to pay cause that's what it's worth
There loose discs even if they did work 25 maybe 30 at most for the good games cib is a huge thing now
I have several GC games, and most of them I got for lik 2USD. The most expensive game I bought (on a flee market) was SSB Melee, and Metal gear, and I think it cost me 9USD for both of them 😁
Horrible tragedy for these amazing pieces of history to be destroyed but you could like make a badass table top with these just clear lacquer over them and I bet it would be worth a ton if done right
good idea
I think that could work, but then I'd have to worry about people thinking that I destroyed perfectly good games to make them into artwork :) Thank you for watching!!!!
@@LyonsArcade but you habe the Video for evidence
@@LyonsArcade It's quite a unique circumstance to have these many games in an otherwise unusable condition, so +1 for the idea of making something cool, like a table, with it!
I was thinking this actually! Some GameCube fan with some money would definitely be interested in a table like that
Make a mural on your wall there with 'em. That would be cool. Hire a local artist to jazz it up some.
That would probably be pretty cool for our store!
@@LyonsArcade don't be sour, make lemonade, I think it would look really cool to see all those hung up on a wall. You could even make something with like a picture in the middle and some of those discs all around it in a frame and sell that
Smart idea. Better than throwing them away. Get some worth out of them. Would love to see that wall once they do that if they do that!
That’s a pretty cool idea
You should definitely do that, then those games wouldn’t have been ruined in vein
That’s exactly how all of my CDs from the 90s look. I had them in a big sleeve case like this. The case sat in my car in the Texas heat for years and years. I think you’re right about heat.
And maybe water as well...
Texas heat is a different breed of weather .. Im from atx I had some disks end up looking like this
@@screweduptx512 I've been to Texas mid Summer and as an Australian I can tell you.. Texas is like living in a very mild climate. The sun in Texas has very little power compared to the real deal down here. Enough to kill a CD.. sure :) but that doesn't take a lot
I've seen temperature maps of Australia, they had to invent new colors. I'll stay here in nice cozy Texas.
Texas heat will make a CD roll into itself like a burrito.
My jaw literally dropped involuntarily when he held that first disc up to the light.
Imagine how I felt, I thought I was going to be rich! Then they're all destroyed! Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoyed the video!
@@LyonsArcade that's pretty naive...
it went from metallic to holographic as soon as the light touched it
I read that and thought ha! How lame. I saw nba street vol 3 and the scratches it had and immediately went 😮
Is this the dreaded Gamecube disc rot? That case it came in looks like it's gotten wet in the past.
Yeah I think they were badly abused unfortunately, I've heard that the gamecube discs are easier to damage...
@@LyonsArcade They are EXTREMELY easy to damage.
Why are you everywhere?
@@JaimeValladares00 exactly this dude keeps commenting the same thing on every video game disc related video.
Yup... wet and warm
Wow! RIP Gamecube games. Also that poor Gamecube trying to read all those games. Throughout the whole video I was thinking the discs would make a great art project! lol.
I mean they LOOK cool but I was hoping some of those valuable ones would PLAY cool, LOL
@@LyonsArcade The GameCube took them like a champ!! ( trying to read them) glad it still worked with the game that was yours at the end of clip lol
Hey a little clear epoxy and you could make a lot of really cool table coaster sets.
@@cybermax12
That and or a clear top (gaming) table.
A table especially would be a good fit in a gaming store.
The GameCube was like
*I CAN’T READ THIS SCRATCHY MESS!!*
With how unresilient disc games can be, it sure makes me appreciate those N64 cartridges underneath in the display case.
the batteries die alot of n64 games are dead by now unless you replace the batteries
What about game cards like the switch ?
Cartridges also rot over time, humidity and dust gets in the contacts. Back then I had more issues reading my NES games than my PS1 games
@@lumer2b All media can die if poorly kept, carts are just much more resilient to regular use damage though. I had trouble with my NES reading games as a kid too, but that was usualy not the cartridge's fault, but the ZIF connectors in the cartridge slot bending over time setting off the 10NES lockout chip. The Japanese Famicom which lacked both the same connector and lockout chip did not have that trouble.
these were definitely microwaved, those carts would not survive either.
"Look at the back!" (Turns disc over)
Ron, no need to turn it over, we could see it clear through from the front! lol
LOL That's a good point. Cut me some slack, I was very disappointed :)
@@LyonsArcade I don't blame you. I was miffed by the shenanigans too.
I thought I was strong enough to watch this. I was wrong
It's like torture videos or something....
Optical media is the worst thing ever... about 25% of the discs I've burned over the years have delaminated in storage.
It was left in an outdoor storage unit, same thing happened to my uncle so I always use climate controlled just in case.
I think you're right, the weather must have got to them....
What really broke me was seeing kirby air ride. That game is like $70 nowadays
Yeah man it sucks!
@@JunkyNinety5ive lol, two weeks later.... Prices change all the time!
@@beautifulvibedynamic6155 yeah I just seen that, but I'm pretty sure you could still find it cheap, now earthbound for snes is a hard one
@@JunkyNinety5ive hahaha, tell me about it! MORE than half of these games won't EXIST if we don't copy them and or just fix what's we're doing wrong DESTROYING all these MASTERPIECES! :'(((((((
@@beautifulvibedynamic6155 yeah man a lot of those games struck a chord
30:50 out of nowhere 100% accurate Kazuma Kiryu impression, i had to listen to that 5 times i thought it was coming from another tab lmao
Now to stick these discs on a board for a disturbing art piece.
LOL We gotta do something with them :)
@@LyonsArcade Once you are done you can sell the art piece and maybe get your money back :) Or more!
Or make a chandelier using fishing wire and fairy lights.
@@LyonsArcade did you make the art piece? Would look so good in the store and be a fun story to tell
I can't believe copies of melee just get destroyed like that...
It's horrible man!
It’s the hardest to watch
I wanted one so badly and they keep destroying them which is why I gave up on getting one
I found a GameCube and 8 controllers with about 50 games at a yard sale about a month ago was driving by and saw a lady setting up for the sale asked if she had and video game stuff it was all in 4 boxes sold me all of it for 50 bucks but not one smash bro but a lot of good games I was going to flip all of it till I got it home and tested it all out now it’s going to start my collection
That is the WORST case of disc rot I have EVER seen!
I don't even collect game cube games and that makes me sad
Imagine how I felt, I thought I was going to be rich! Then they're all destroyed! Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoyed the video!
Just started my Game cube Collection. This is a horror show. 😂👻😭😂
Yeah it's horrible!
Not even a month in and we have a notable contender for most tragic video of 2020.
Some of these games are _not_ cheap!
Edit: This comment aged like milk
Yeah it's pretty tragic!
I saved my money for a gamecube and I got finding Nemo but when I started it up IT DIDNT EVEN WORK
We have new contenders
This didn't age well lol
Only if you knew what would occur a few months after this comment in 2020….
I recovered some games out of a flooded basement and all the discs were exactly like this. I guess that prolonged exposer to water eats the disc away.
I never thought of it being water damage, you'd think water couldn't get inside of it so they'd be fine, but perhaps the edges aren't sealed? Or maybe when the water dries it causes the damage... thank you for watching, we appreciate it!
My theory is they were in a flood and rotted out.
I think you may be right!
Also, these books for CD's or DVD's are known to bleed out their chemicals over time. Some discs react badly to this, that's why I never store originals there.
Flood, or maybe survived a fire that was burning close to it
So that’s where all of the copies of melee went to die.
Just think, yours is worth slightly more now!
Joe's Classic Video Games unfortunately no, I’ve been waiting to reward my son for an all A and B report card, and kind of monitoring the price. That’s the game he wants.
ClutchKman You have obviously raised your kid well if he wants Melee as a reward. I hope you end up finding a copy.
Artists Arcade Thanks man, the classics are alive and well at my house. I actually want Melee myself by the way people talk about it.
I've got a case and manual that I found without a disc, I blame the idiots who toss everything but the disc like it's useless trash.
IMO someone saved broken games and put them all in a case, like you guessed.
Jesus man, after being burned out collecting PS2 games, I'm looking into collecting GC games. This shit hurts my soul!
It's bad man!
Oh man it’s gonna cost a ton to collect GameCube vs pS2 games. I got 400 pS2 games for the same price I back for like 10 GameCube games lol.
Or you could sell all your games and get into saving your money or investing in something actually worth while
Porter Rockwell, thank you random internet stranger telling me how to spend the money I work for.
I will totally take your advice and not tell you to piss off! Nope, not me...
(I do have a savings dude...)
@@meseone920 yea, GC games are pretty ridiculous sometimes. Doesn't help Melee is more than what it cost new back in the day because of the Smash FGC. And Nintendo developed games are always over the 40 dollar mark when complete in box.
*Last game tested fails.
*Price is Right horn plays.
I remember seeing a table where someone put a bunch of 45 records down, then covered them with maybe a half inch layer of urethane so you could see them through the surface.
I've seen stuff like that, it would look great depending on what you did it to!
That sounds pretty cool actually.
In fact that might be the absolute best uses of these.
i've had ps1 games with this same issue, where you could see thru most of it when held to a light, all i did was paint over the front surface of the disc with a matte black paint and it worked again, so not sure if its the labels disintigrating or what, but if they are see thru, the laser can't read it?
I was under the impression that the information was inside the actual reflective layer, and since it was gone the information was gone... but people have been informing me that the information is invisible and still there inside the clear layer... I didn't know that so I didn't try replacing the reflective layer, that's interesting, thanks for the idea! We appreciate you watching!
@@LyonsArcade actually for DVDs(and GameCube games since they are based on DVDs ( the information in between manufacturers the layers of plastic, so honestly there's a ok chance a sharpie could fix it, even for cds for the information stored on the top layer, it's actually pressed into the plastic itself and the silver is just a protective coating
@@LyonsArcade did u get any to work using the comment above?
Did you get them to work?
That shouldn't be physically possible because the data is stored in the top layer closest to the label and once it's gone it's gone.
It would be like ripping a chunk of data out of a program and expecting it to work.
If you're feeling mischievous, you could take some of those to a retro game convention and drop them around the place for lols
(it's just a prank bruh)
Haha, then film it all and upload it to youtube :)
ohnoitschris haha, that’d be hilarious.
Wow, you found The Human Torch's GameCube collection!
I think there was even a fantastic four game in there wasn't there???
I got my first GameCube for Christmas in either 2005 or 2006. A few games came with it, and here are the ones that I remember getting with it: Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut, Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, Sonic Mega Collection, Sonic Heroes, Mario Party 7, Super Mario Sunshine, Luigi's Mansion, Kirby Air Ride, Donkey Konga, Animal Crossing, Madagascar and The Incredibles.
You had some really good games, even Madagascar is pretty good, lol.
I also got my Gamecube for Christmas in 2005, my brother got it for Christmas that year. My brother got the Pokemon XD game that day
Here are a few more that I had gotten over the years:
Jimmy Neutron: Attack of the Twonkies
Shadow the Hedgehog
Sonic Riders@@Devinnytroymediaopenings
I was expecting more of them cracked and/or scratched to hell, but that level of destruction hurts. Holy disc rot, Batman
Yeah I've never seen them quite this bad.
He probably baught the whole pack for $5 and thought he could flip it for hundreds, haha the old gamestop flip the guy who sold the BROKE games still got ripped off lol
It’s so shocking seeing how many super smash bros have been destroyed considering them being so pricey and so little copies being resold nowadays.
Looks like it might of been left out in a garage or storage room that didnt have temperature control, perhaps was in a box on the ground. Box ended up getting wet at some point. With the temp going up and down. Just ended up ruining the discs.
I have had CDs and DVDS in cases like theses in past. Moved and put stuff in storage room. Had the storage room for a little over 2 years while I moved to Apt. GOt a house, and moved all the stuff from Storage room into House. Found out some boxes got wet at some point. plus I didnt pay extra for the inside temp control. we ended up with some very very hot days. and cold days. but about 90% of the CDs and DVDs didnt work or wont work anymore. They looked Similar to what you are showing on the gamecube games.
This is why you do NOT put Electronics, CDs, DvDs, VHS, Into Storage rooms that arent temp controlled
I agree, it sucks man, the heat/cold tore them apart!
You could use them as an art piece and call it "destroyed childhood"
it was in a trunk wet and dried over and over.. i bet the data side got stuck to the plastic and took it off
This is why game preservation is so important. Media is so viable to damage.
“NHL 06... of course that one looks like it could still work.”
LOL!
It's always the crappy ones....
I read this comment just as he said it
Honestly wouldn't be bad to hang them up as decoration in a game room.
I'm guessing those discs were probably stored in a hot attic for years. The case that they were stored in probably had something stacked on top of it may caused the warping .
That's a good theory Westcoast Ronnie... by the way I'm the eastcoast Ronnie, I did used to live in Fresno though!
I'm thinking that it was put under a window in a car. The thermo effect can bring temperatures very high in a car.
Looks like the kind of damage you get when you put them in a microwave
I never thought of that, maybe somebody put the whole damn bag in a microwave or something....
Joe's Classic Video Games unlikely, it wouldn’t explain the water damage on the case
I agree,with the thin aluminum plating being the only thing vanished.Textbook microwave. Water damage could be from before or after getting nuked.
Shawn Derrick Maybe the guy’s house got flooded and he put the games in the microwave to dry them off? 😉
I suspect none of you have seen what a cd looks like when it comes out of the microwave. Here's a hint... Not like this
When they're see-through, that means its a special edition! You should resell them for double price!
idiot....thats a scam and illegal to do that(selling broken discs).....also thats on him for not verifying the discs quality b4 giving the guy any money
@@bllllood broski his comment was clearly a joke im pretty sure youre the idiot
@@fluffyminecraftpigs i prefer not treat it as a joke ;)....then again....i did indeed rush reply without thinking ;) had other stuff on my mind so didn't rly pay attention to the way he formulated his sentence....so ya my reply wasn't exactly adequate(should been neutral instead of aggresive).....so i accept the idiot title for this time XD
@@bllllood You call him an idiot yet you ironically fell to his sarcasm.
these sat in a hot ass car or a house fire
That's what I thought....
@@LyonsArcade As someone else mentioned, Microwaves can also do this.
Or sitting beside Chernobyl's elephant foot.
@@vermilion7777 No shit sherlock.
Paul Freedman no I microwave does something different. The look "shattered" when you put them in a microwave
At this point you should use it as wall decorations or get a picture frame, stick random gamecube games, sell it as wall portrait, profit!
I think that would work pretty good!
When the most used word in the video is "Destroyed"......you know its not a good day.
Imagine how I feel, you didn't have any money in the game :) Thanks for watching Smack Pitt!
Imagine buying all of these for a game collection. That would be the biggest ripoff ever.
I know man just think of getting them for a Christmas Present!
I've seen a lot of record stores hang old vinyls from the ceiling with fishing line, that would definitely be a nice bit of decoration for your shop.
That's a good idea, Peter!
It is the reflective layer degradation, as it oxidizes.. It will happen to all CDs eventually, just heat speeds it up. Keep your CDs in vacuum or other non reactive gas containment.
I need a vacuum safe or something. Thank you for watching Stuart!
yeah, ive seen that on CDs that have been sitting in cars too long. id say that case have been sitting in a hot/cold car, on another note, some discs can actually be a ilttle see through and still work. especially discs made cheap with thinner metal coating.
Yeah, I think it was either stored in an attic, car trunk, or was involved in a fire damage situation. (because of the strap)
@@emprsnm9903 kinda looks like rust stains on the case? poor storage for sure.. and the discs were probably broken even before that. having discs in a case like that is just bad.
@@MrVein5.0 Yeah, the duplicates makes me think it might have been a previous store's toss pile. Then stored someplace horrible.
It definitely looks like it had something to do with heat, that would explain why a few of them were actually warped too.... thank you for watching, we appreciate it!!!!
You can change discs with out powering off the GameCube XD. You could repurpose the discs and make a really cool piece of wall art for a mancave!
That would probably look pretty cool!
Without*
these disks are water damaged, you can tell by the gunk on the strap. These case has been through a serious flood.
I never thought of it being water damage, you'd think water couldn't get inside of it so they'd be fine, but perhaps the edges aren't sealed? Or maybe when the water dries it causes the damage... thank you for watching, we appreciate it!
Ive seen similar damage to some of these from discs left in a window, the uv light/heat destroys them, can only assume someone stored them as damaged
Yeah I think they got a ton of heat somewhere....
Humidity
since the front still seems nice on the majority of them, I think you could make something cool with them, like glueing them together as a mobilee or put them between two panes of glass as a table. If you put a lot of games in there, maybe you could sell it with a nice profit
Those Pokemon XD games...shame both looked like crap, had they been working, they sell on eBay for like $150 each loose anymore...so sad...
Yeah there's so much value here in these stacks it's unbelievable! Tons of cool games.
Now the "Ex"-girlfriends revenge.
Ha, could be... any ladies want to fess up?????
She had so much fun with the microwave.
Did you do anything with them?
There's a rock bar I know that has these really cool tables, where they've laid out a bunch of old records on the top then poured clear resin over them.
That happens when you store any kind of disc or DVD inside one of those damn "DVD-storage-bags". They're waaay to cheap, catch a lot of humidity and as you can see, long term, end up damaging the discs. Buy multi dvd cases instead, the ones with trays. You may no get as much storage space for the same money, but your discs will live forever.
I rather leave a disc in the original case and inside a plastic bag for preservation, but for some titles that I play often, I store the original case and leave the disc in a multi-dvd-case for easy access.
I agree 100% I hate those things!
Thats 100% heat damage. Back in late 90s when kids didn't understand burning CDs they would put a blank disc on top of a music cd or PS games then would take heat source to them and that's what a heat gun would make them look like.
Probably left in a hot car, some kind of storage for a long time or was in a fire.
I don't know a single kid who's done that
I done it by being addicted to Dragon Ball Raging Blast 2 it won't even read as a game but most of my Xbox 360 games work
I suspect these were damaged by fire. I have a similar CD book that has been kept in my various cars in hot climates for many years and none have suffered any damage.
Cd rot usually begins from center to outward , heat would at least flex or warp the disc out of shape , i think these were from a dealer using resurfacer and then they started to deteriorate
It definitely looks like it had something to do with heat, that would explain why a few of them were actually warped too.... thank you for watching, we appreciate it!!!!
Humidity killed them. I’ve left DVD CD outside and they go all blotchy like that. Water and mould gets inside between the layers.
I’m sure glad their not mine. I look after my stuff so that they always work and have resale value.
Wow. You weren't kidding. This legitimately made my stomach hurt and churn. :')
Pretty bad stuff!
Somebody probably had one of those expensive machines that would buff out all the scratches and was providing a service to restore scratched disks and these are all the disks that were unsaveable so they ended up in a reject pile. The service was common at used game stores around the time of the GameCube.
You should rename this to "How to slowly kill a game enthusiast in under 37 minutes"
Well if I was trying to do that I could have done it much faster! Thank you for watching defeatereater
Damn thems some expensive coasters. Only recommendation I'd make is maybe get yourself one of them phone stands like what Spawn Wave has so when you dig through the cd bag you can get through em faster.
I'll look into that :) Thanks for watching!
Could you imagine what his Gamecube console looked like LOL
Naw, this wasn't just heat damage, this was intentional. The seller knew every single one of those games were hopelessly destroyed.
There is no way in hell that these were "accidentally" damaged..
I didn't thought it was possible to feel so much pain, but here I am screaming internally beyond belive.
Imagine how I felt, I thought I was going to be rich! Then they're all destroyed! Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoyed the video!
Am I about to sit here and watch this man pull out each individual disk, and tell me they're damaged?
Yes. Yes you are.
Severe water and sun damage, based offof case, then dead spots on disc. This is extrememly painful.
Yeah it's horrible!
This whole thing was painful af but somehow you glossing over star fox assault like that hurt the most
Sorry dude :)
I'm surprised your gamecube didn't just say "screw you guys...i'm going home" and jumped off the table to its merciful death.
It probably wanted to :)
Is that The Explosion in the background coming from that Cars disc?
I don't know where that's coming from!
man this is just sad, hard to find GameCube games become ever more hard to find.
Yup. It's a travesty really for some of those better games!
Thankfully we have emulators at least
Instructions: Leave in Case, Bake in a pre-heated oven at 350 degrees for exactly 7 minutes, let cool and serve.
Username checks out... .It definitely looks like it had something to do with heat, that would explain why a few of them were actually warped too.... thank you for watching, we appreciate it!!!!
If the dye of the divets on the plastic from the manufacture press master, you may be able to resilver coat them like in NileRed when he made silver coated ordimants.
I think some of them might be saved by that...
When that man took out the melee disk, my heart dropped lmao.
witch melee disk
Imagine how I must feel, I thought I hit the Jackpot! Instead I found a HORROR STORY
This doesn't pain me as much as a friend of a friend told me that when her mother passed away her mother had video games in almost every room and the garage was full of sealed video games and she just threw them in garbage because she didn't think people would want old games. I asked her if she lives under a rock and she gave me a look of distain. I just said to her well at least I wasn't the one that threw away millions of dollars.
Damn Randy that's crazy
@@guerrepsychologique5154 It's all I thought about for months after.
those discs have been resurfaced so many times, that the data layer has been ground completely away, revealing the artwork on the other side. though some are definitely just rotten.
I think it could be, that they tried to resurface them and couldn't fix them, so some place had all the broken games stored in this case, then after that the case was damaged somehow with heat or water, leaving everything this bad off. I don't think it was a collection of working games at any time.... Thanks for watching, we appreciate it!!!
My theory: This thing was sitting in the sun for 15 years, belonging to a fleamarket-seller. Hence the doubles.
I think that may be !
Moral of the Story: Never store your games in extreme temperatures. Disc rot like this will happen.
Dude, you blew my mind at the end when you mentioned that each stack of discs had the same number of games in it. Really shows just how degraded a lot of them were!
Yeah it's such a shame, so much value lost!
The fact that im trying to come up with ways to save those damn discs shows just how in denial i am about them. rip those games
I want them, they shall be wall art!
Imagine how I felt, I thought I was going to be rich! Then they're all destroyed! Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoyed the video!
Reseller probably kept those in their car. It can get extremely hot in a car.
Yup they seem baked! Thanks for watching Wolfstanus!
Looking by just at the bag we can already tell it's been on a strong fire source, but holy shit seeing all of those smash games almost made me puke
Yeah, it sucks!
It seriously looks like someone stuck the entire case in the microwave, would explain the warping and damage
I never tried microwaving any of them but i'll take your word for it.. .i'll bet you just know because you heard about it :) Thanks for watching!!!
@@LyonsArcade ive never microwaved any of my games but the way a microwave works, the way the discs are warped and speckled and the case being melted yadda yadda. just some armchair CSI stufff lol
Imagine this guy selling these games as working in great condition just to trick people into buying broken games.
Before Angry Gamer Rage videos went viral the previous owner went insane over losing too many matches in smash bros and rampaged grinding 250 GameCube games into oblivion whilst laughing maniacally.