 Welcome to my video of game hunting in Los Angeles. I will show you everything that I did in California. My first trip to the United States ever. This video is sponsored by Epic Games. Thank you. I will take you through all of the game stores that I went to. I will show you my trip to the Universal Studios and the Super Nintendo World. Also Harry Potter Land. I will show you everything that I picked up. I'll tell you about the rather creepy story about us accidentally going through one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Los Angeles. So my vlogging starts out with us traveling from Hosta to Oslo which means not the Norway down to the capital of Norway which we always have to do when we want to travel anywhere. And then later boarding a Dreamliner with Norse and it's the biggest plane that I've ever been on by far. It was a 10 and a half hour long flight making our total travel time about 25 hours until we reached the hotel. It was exhausting to say the least. I was traveling with my sister and we stayed at a hotel called Mama Shelter located pretty near the Hollywood Walk of Fame area. The hotel was good and I can recommend it. And the Hollywood sign is visible from the roof bar area. I had American pancakes of course and I found a grocery store to get some water. Looking at American groceries for my first time too. So my first impression of Los Angeles is that it is a big city. It's the biggest city I have ever been to. Now this video is sponsored by Epic Games and they sent over a mystery package and I swear I do not know what's in this package but they wanted us to figure out this mystery together. Me and you. So this is a mystery I want you guys to also follow along with. It's regarding Alan Wake 2 and you can still pre-order Alan Wake 2 with my link down below. So here are the two items they want me to check out. It's FBI sealed. I'm very much looking forward to Alan Wake 2 now. Oh cute. Look at that. World's greatest FBI agent. So this is the mystery file that we're gonna solve. Welcome to the FBI. Your first assignment is an administrative task. It contains case files concerning an ongoing murder investigation. You are to examine and cross reference the catalog of files. You will identify any potential links to the evidence that may have been missed by more experienced agents. The following items to assist you includes in this welcome pack. FBI badge and lanyard to prove you are an official member of the agency. Oh my god. Good one. Special Agent Isha. Very, very good. Plastic gloves. Do not contaminate the evidence. Wear during the task. FBI notepad and pen. Document any of these references you may find in the files. Handheld UV light to uncover any case links that may have been missed. Pins, red string, post-it notes and blue tack for use when cross referencing files. I will contact you later. Look forward to working with you. So this is the start of the investigation. What do you guys make of this? We needed to dim down the lights because we are looking for clues when it comes to this murder investigation. We are being thorough and we have a flashlight and we are going to get to the bottom of this murder. I am not able to find anything suspicious in this first package. Maybe the mystery will unfold much more next time. I will be unboxing the next case file in my next video. So stay tuned for that. You can still pre-order Alan Wake 2 with my link down below. Until later. The next day we did all the most touristy things you can imagine. Like going to the Hollywood wax museum. The entry fee was kind of overpriced. But I feel like once you're there you just gotta do that. The dolls were quite realistic and scary. I found my boy Brad Pitt and Tom Hanks pretty satisfied with that. I had a little chat with Audrey Hepburn and I saw Morgan Freeman, Cameron Diaz and so many other people like Clint Eastwood, Elvis and then there was this pop star room trippy stuff. There are supposedly at least two wax museums on Hollywood Boulevard. This street, this famous street. But we only went to this one. And then we walked out to do some star hunting on the Walk of Fame. We found Sandra Bollock, Keanu Reeves, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Britney Spears and there are over 250 stars on the street. So I mean if you are looking for someone in particular that is gonna take a whole day. Heading into a huge souvenir shop. There is a Hollywood mug and some cute Kirby stuff. I mean look at this mug. I was really close on buying this but I couldn't risk it. You know being broken in my suitcase. Traveling home. But it was definitely cute. And a Paper Mario mug and guys, yeah. I'm looking forward to the new Paper Mario, the remake of Thousand Year Door. Loved that announcement. That is one of the better Paper Mario games. Really excited for that. And then we randomly got into a guided tour bus of sorts. Taking a trip around the gated communities at Beverly Hills. Where the guide showed us where a bunch of celebrities lives. Which was cool because then we got to see several parts of the area in a very speedy time. And we got to see places that we wouldn't have otherwise. And let me tell you, the contrast between the rich and the poor, it couldn't be any bigger. The next day we went to the Alan Wake 2 event which I was invited by Epic Games to attend. But before that we were trying to check out some local video game stores. And I picked out four locations on Google Maps that was pretty near the event location. So at first we went to this place. It is near downtown Los Angeles at the Little Tokyo Mall. And we went into this store called Retro Game Camp or World 8. And we of course asked the manager, at least I assume he was the manager, that it was okay if we could film in there and we could. So I made the rounds and immediately checked out the PS Vita section. And I noticed that they had Rare Neptunia Limited editions that I don't have yet. Tons of Rare and niche games too. This was a good store. And of course, Faye Farm. Faye Farm. Which is the game that I'm currently playing still. And I am playing it now on the Switch as a side note. I started playing it on PC but then I now I'm playing it on the Switch. It's fine on the Switch if you're wondering. Highly recommend that. And I had to look at all the Switch games. A lot of current gen and also a ton of retro games like GameCube, PlayStation, Xbox, you name it. I could easily spend an hour in here just looking at all the stuff. Great story you have. Do you happen to have PAL games? Europe. We don't. You don't. We don't get them a lot. Oh yeah. Every once in a while we'll get some in. Norway. Norway? I'm Norwegian. Norway. Well, my family. Okay. You know Norwegian? I don't know. No. Fellow Norwegian. I want to go there. Go to Norway and see the Northern Lights. That's what I hear. Small world. Like, how do you f*** this up? Yeah, Fettelul. Fettelul? Yeah, good. Which way? This way? Yeah. Look, here's ours. And I decided to grab Ragnarok Odyssey for $15, which is a Japanese version of Ragnarok Odyssey. But it's again that I have been looking at for quite some time. It's supposedly a really good JRPG on the PS4. And I was of course also very tempted at all the rare titles for the PS4. And the guy that worked there, I assume he is the manager. He gave me a handwritten list of all of the best video game stores in Los Angeles according to him. So you can post this video right here and have a look at that if you ever take the trip, I mean. All the stores, it's like territories. We don't want to encroach on anyone else's territory. So they're very spread out. And this is your territory? Or is it? We got downtown. We got K-town. Oh yeah. Say hi to your grandparents. I'll tell you this was the best store because after this we did what Google Maps said. And we started walking towards the next nearest video game store according to Google Maps, also dropping in on a random anime merch store for a bit because I saw a Genshin Impact character. But you know what? I guess Google is wrong sometimes because there was no video game store at the next point, which I had mapped out for us. So I mean, I can confirm that at this location there is nothing. So we are making our way down to the third and last option that we had planned out. We went to this store, which is called LA Video Games, and it is perhaps not the very best store ever, but it wasn't terrible either. It had a ton of current GEN stuff and I have also been meaning to pick up a new set of Joy-Cons, which I did. These pink and yellow ones. I'm very happy with those. $70, which is actually less than in Norway. Otherwise there are a lot of toys and figurines and speakers too. And time flew by so fast that at this point I was like, we need to go to the event now. And I found a shortcut on Google Maps. So I was like, yeah, we have to go that way. Little did I know that we accidentally went through one of the most dangerous neighborhoods of Los Angeles. The Skid Row. But it was daytime and we ran. Then we went to the event and I will talk more about the event later in another video. Now the next day, the last full day, we took a lift as close to the Hollywood sign as we can possibly get by car and it was on this location and it was a perfect spot to have pictures taken with the sign. And then we went to the Universal Studios Amusement Park. A huge, beautiful amusement park with a ton of stores, joy rides, restaurants, small shops, ice cream, everything that you can think of. And also a ton of Nintendo stores. So much merch. Just about anything you can imagine. What a wonderful place this was. So you know what? I had a wonderful time at the Universal Studios. This is a place that can easily take up a whole day and it was just the best day. If you ever take the trip, make sure you are prepared and bring cash because you're gonna want stuff. Definitely. And oh my god, I went into the Harry Potter land. They have built Hogsmead. It's like playing Hogwarts Legacy, remember? That we were obsessed with earlier this year. They built Hogsmead, the actual street with stores and you go into the stores and they're actually stores. It was so freaking mind blowing. I mean all the detail that went into this place, it was absolutely amazing. And they even built freaking Hogwarts. It was huge. And there was an amusement ride inside of this castle which is the best ride I have ever taken in my entire life. I cannot describe it. No YouTube video is ever making this place justice. It is to be experienced. And then finally we went into the Super Nintendo world which is the Nintendo world that they have built. We went into the Toadstool Cafe which is an actual cafe. Got a sippy cup like this. Nintendo land was really well made and the lines were not too terrible. We went, what was it? Thursday? But it wasn't too bad. This place was also impressive. Maybe a bit small? But it was impressive. I had a lot of fun at the Universal Studios. I mean, what a day. This was quite the day that I will not soon forget. But you know, the next day we travelled home. It was really good to be back in Norway. I'm not gonna lie. I'm so grateful that I made it home again. So a summary of my trip. I can highly recommend if you are ever taking the trip. I mean, to make it to the Universal Studios and do all of the things that I just described. It was such a day. And also visit that first video game store with a good manager. I hope you're watching this. That was good stuff. You know what? He recognized me from Metal Jesus Rocks. And he was like, yeah. And I was like, do you watch, do you watch happy console game? And he was like, yeah, Johnny. Oh yeah, Jason. You were on there? Yeah, I was in Metal Jesus Rocks. That's it. I did see you. Really? Yeah, yeah. Jason, yeah. Yeah, Jason. Do you know happy console game or two? Yeah, Johnny. Up in Canada. I know, right? Yeah. I can also recommend the Mama Shelter Hotel. And also highly recommending having the lift up installed. That was a savior also. Also, you have to tip everyone because it's the culture. Now, this is what I picked up at the Universal Studios. Love it. Also the sippy cup. And of course, Ragnarok Odyssey. And the beautiful joy cons, pink and yellow. It was fun to share this stuff with you. And you people are asking me to vlog more. Definitely trying to provide that sometimes. It was a fun travel. Thank you so much for watching. And I will see you later.