Interview with Jason Wilson AKA DreamTR (Patreon)

The following "interview" was actually just some facebook messaging between me and DreamTR

The first part is my 1st part is 5 questions sent over to Jason and the 2nd part is the unedited chat between me and Jason on facebook which I wanted to include.

Enjoy :)

Q1, You was able to get hold of 7 off what is possibly the rarest and most sought after video games in existence, How did you come up with the idea?

A1. A friend of mine, who also my former boss at Tips & Tricks Magazine, Chris Bieniiek suggested it after we were brainstorming what to do after I lost a Google Newsgroup auction to thomaser for a peeled label version of the gray NWC. We knew about gold ones even though I wanted a gray, but definitely saw the value of them skyrocketing in the future if they were able to be obtained from the winners who Chris figured were all in college at that point (1999-2000).

Q2, I understand you do not want to say how much you paid or sold the 6 cartridges for, but would you be willing to give a ballpark on the lowest and highest you spent?

A2, With the original gold NWC lot of 7 the cheapest was $50 and the most expensive was $1877, which was an eBay auction.

Q3, I assume you contacted the winners and runners up by phone and/or post. What did you say to them from the get go?

A3, Yes, I tried vehemently to locate them, basically told them I was interested in their cartridge, if they had it would they sell it, offered them money, the person I got it from for $50 called me and gave me that offer since I had been asking about it from him when he found it for months.

Q4, You got the names of the contestants from a Nintendo Power magazine right? What was your next step towards tracking them down??

A4, A lot of Yahoo/Google searching. Phone numbers were easier to find back then because not everyone had a cell phone. It's much more difficult to find numbers for people, but easier now to locate a person because of social media (if I was to look today).

Q5, Do you now own a complete Nes set? do you collect for any other consoles or computers?

A5, I have owned a CIB NES set for many years. I collect for other various systems and have CIB collections of many North American sets and numerous Japanese games. I am at over 18,000 different unique releases for all systems and also own a little over 500 arcade and pinball machines.

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• DAN

  massive thanks for that buddy

  Can i just clarify im not sure if i have this right or not

  so you had 7 crts alltogether

  is that a mix of the gold and grey or just gold/grey?

• JASON
  

  gold

  5 at once

  7 overall

• DAN
  

  you had 7 gold
  

• JASON
  

  gray I have had 3 different

  yes 7 gold

  5 at once

  I have had 10 different NWCs, 7 gold one gray

• DAN
  

  ahh wow so you have actually had 10 altogether

• JASON
  

  yes

• DAN
  

  and now you have 1 grey and 1 gold?

• JASON
  

  yes

• DAN
  

  cool

  sounds like you have a museum of a collection lol

  the rarest game i have is probably the pal release of Knuckles Chaotix

  lol

  do you have a picture you would like me to use in the video

  ?

• JASON
  

  do you know what my username is or who people know me as ?

• DAN
  

  nope

• JASON
  

  DreamTR

• DAN
  

  i just know u as Jasoin Wilson

  Why are you called DreamTR

• JASON
  

  lol well you are doing an article

  and

  I have been around for like 20 years with that name

  so that is why I was surprised

• DAN
  

  ahhh ok

• JASON
  

  I'm not trying to be "that guy" or anything

• DAN
  

  just so you know this is a youtube video not a written article lol

• JASON
  

  but I have earned the honor of me saying that it is like asking Kobe Bryant if he plays basketball

  without any arrogance aside

• DAN
  

  hahaha

  fair dooos

• JASON
  

  = P

• DAN
  

  So why DreamTR

• JASON
  

  it's jsut a band name, nothing more

• DAN
  

  Pronounced Dream T R right?

  no funky way of saying it lol

• JASON
  

  yes

• DAN
  

  OK my video just got a lot beefier

  lol

  I have just googled DreamTR

  LOL

  where do you keep all this

• JASON
  

  with me

  lol

• DAN
  

  thats a big house lol

• JASON
  

  I own a bunch of stores

  arcades and pinballs take up the most room

• DAN
  

  Yeah i bet

  when you say stores I am assuming retro arcade shops

• JASON
  

  and game stores, yes

• DAN
  

  ahhhh nice

  what are they called

• JASON
  

  Game Galaxy

• DAN
  

  cool cheers

  just looking at your rare items

  http://blog.pricecharting.com/2009/07/interview-rare-game-collector-with.html

• JASON
  

  yeah that is old but yes you have an idea

• DAN
  

  are these still your 5 rarest items?

• DAN
  

  Legend of Zelda NES prototype because nobody else has seen that type of PCB before.

  1990 Nintendo World Championships Gold. It is basically the "holy grail" of gaming.

  1992 Nintendo Campus Challenge NES. This is the only one known to exist.

  First production unit off the line of the Turbo Grafx 16 System

  Sock the Cat Rocks the Hill SNES. The only known version of this in the world - See more at:

  http://blog.pricecharting.com/2009/07/interview-rare-game-collector-with.html#sthash.b8qNcpWF.dpuf

• JASON
  

  No. I only have the gold NWC from that lot

  Others sold

• DAN
  

  ahhh wow

  so do you have any items rarer than that now?

• JASON
  

  I have no idea honestly. Maybe arcsde or pinball more for sure yes. Not sure about console. I have a lot of protos

• DAN
  

  well thanks so much for all this

• JASON
  

  You are welcome