From active timer battling to zombie slaying, Waffling Taylors covers video games beyond.

In this episode, we have a returning guest G to the Next Level - little aside here: #dontCallMeShirely - to talk about his entire retail US Genesis library.

We cover wholesome gaming stories. A cautionary tale about drinking, and chainsaws. Yes, I said chainsaws. You want to know why chainsaws? Keep listening, and you'll find out. It's in there somewhere.

So sit back, grab some snacks, and get ready for this episode entitled "Genesis to the Next Level, a story about game collecting."
Enjoy.

— Squidge

• Part one
• Part two

So, yeah, I'm I'm G to the Next Level, you know, like, "welcome to the next level" with a G like me. I mostly do retro stuff, sometimes retro inspired stuff. I do YouTube, I do Twitch four days a week.

I'm working on a project called Growing Up Genesis where basically I'm chronicling the entire library of the Sega Genesis - the official library from A to Z - on both YouTube and various other methods. I've been guessing at conventions all over the United States. Hopefully on your side of the world someday, hopefully. But yeah, that's basically where you can find me.

And my whole thing is not just Sega, but it mostly involves Sega. I've been a fan of Sega since 1991, since getting the Sega Genesis for Christmas 1991. And ever since the Sega Genesis - or Mega Drive - has basically been a huge integral part in my video gaming life. And between that and one way to another is just ways to share not only my own childhood stories, just cool things about video games, cool facts that maybe you might not know, games that you might not have ever really played, that sort of thing.

And just bringing unique Sega spin on things that don't quite get enough love in these days.

And the same thing on Twitch, too, because essentially I do, like, viewer requests on Twitch where people can request games for me to stream. I'll do newer, retro-inspired games that maybe people are just kind of on the fence whether or not they should play. I do community games on Friday nights on the Nintendo Switch. And then, like I said, that Growing Up Genesis project, it mainly all starts on Twitch and it spans off from there.

— G to the Next Level

• Splatoon 3
• Hi-Fi Rush
• Sonic Frontiers

• Samurai Warriors 5
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

• Phantasy Star Online
• Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep: A Wonderlands One-shot Adventure

I have to kind of clarify it when I talk about because there's so many different aspects to collecting now and it was a day like CIB [complete in box]. Like complete box isn't really CIB any more. There's so many different things that have changed over the years.

That's why I'm always careful to say that I have a US retail collection and not a complete US collection. Because the are some there's a couple of asterisks in there that people will be like, "oh, well, if you don't have Outback Joey, then you don't have a complete collection." I don't have a complete complete collection. I have a complete retail collection.

Because even though there's some arguments behind it as whether or not this was actually sold in the stores, it was mainly a mail order thing. So it doesn't really count. Most people don't count it. And so that's why I say retail just to avoid that little bit of discourse that might happen with something like that.

— G to the Next Level