{"id":654,"date":"2010-05-10T10:52:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T15:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2010-05-10T14:07:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T19:07:57","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-top-cash-for-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/654\/retro-scan-of-the-week-top-cash-for-games","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Screaming for Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/topdollar_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/topdollar_small.jpg\" alt=\"Top Ad - circa 1993\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>One eyeball, two pupils, eight fingers, ten teeth.  Just like momma.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Remember when ads like this haunted the back of every video game magazine?  As a kid, the thought of getting money for games you&#8217;d already played through (and thus theoretically had no more use for) was an exciting one.  But the truth about used game buyers always ended up disappointing &#8212; any business that hoped to make a profit by selling used video games could only afford to offer you a few bucks per title.  That&#8217;s why I never sold any of them.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Electronic Gaming Monthly, circa 1993 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong>  Have you ever regretted selling any of your video games?  If so, tell us the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One eyeball, two pupils, eight fingers, ten teeth. Just like momma. Remember when ads like this haunted the back of every video game magazine? As a kid, the thought of getting money for games you&#8217;d already played through (and thus theoretically had no more use for) was an exciting one. But the truth about used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}