{"id":683,"date":"2006-09-12T21:36:19","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T01:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/09\/12\/collecting-pays-off-finally\/"},"modified":"2006-09-12T21:36:19","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T01:36:19","slug":"collecting-pays-off-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/09\/12\/collecting-pays-off-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting Pays Off (Finally)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have covered this a few times before, but at one point in my life I was addicted to \u201ccollecting\u201d games.\u00a0 Thankfully those days have now passed, because they typically ended with a game library that grew dusty, stale, and worthless.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, but there are a few gems to be had.\u00a0 I am talking about the holy grail of collecting.\u00a0 The sought after gems on eBay.\u00a0 Yes, the RPGs.\u00a0 I recently cleared more than the original MSRP (or at least what I paid way back when) for Legend of Mana, Vagrant Story, and Chrono Cross.\u00a0 The common theme?\u00a0 All Squaresoft titles for the original Playstation.\u00a0 We are talking about clearing over $150 for these games, which if you think about it, is a horrible investment, but this is far better than losing my shirt, which is what usually happens when I toss up older games on eBay.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have covered this a few times before, but at one point in my life I was addicted to \u201ccollecting\u201d games.\u00a0 Thankfully those days have now passed, because they typically ended with a game library that grew dusty, stale, and worthless. Ah, but there are a few gems to be had.\u00a0 I am talking about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/09\/12\/collecting-pays-off-finally\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Collecting Pays Off (Finally)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}