{"id":399,"date":"2009-01-13T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T01:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamemasters.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2019-04-07T01:11:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T01:11:56","slug":"old-games-find-a-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Old Games Find a New Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p>I\u2019m working on a deal with another game store in which GameMasters.com will be donating a fair amount of games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Why?&nbsp; Well, for one, they are old out of print games (some even made by companies that no longer exist), for two GameMasters.com is a major supporter of the smaller local game shops.&nbsp; I don\u2019t buy my D&amp;D books or Magic the Gathering cards at these larger retail outlets, I support my smaller gaming stores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Why do you go out of your way to support the smaller gaming stores?&nbsp; The answer is quite simple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Remember the old TV show <em>Cheers<\/em>?&nbsp; Yeah, you wanna go where everybody knows your name.&nbsp; You want to hang out and associate with people who are similar to you.&nbsp; I\u2019m a gamer.&nbsp; I love to play games.&nbsp; From Poker to Pokemon.&nbsp; Yes, you heard me, Pokemon.&nbsp; I even have some of the Japanese cards in which the game is called Pocket Monster.&nbsp; I even have an &nbsp;unopened PokeDex from 1998&nbsp;!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Okay, so I\u2019m blathering a bit.&nbsp; My point is, you can\u2019t go into a Barnes and Noble, or Ace Bookstore, or Wal-Mart, sit down with a pizza and start playing a massive game of Warhammer 40K.&nbsp; But you step into your local gaming shop and it\u2019s a whole different story.&nbsp; We\u2019re talkin good company, good games, terrain, never a dull moment!<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah, I want to promote those local shops so I\u2019ll always have a place to Game On!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Keep your eyes here to find out some more details about the lucky shop that\u2019s going to get a nice donation from GameMasters.com!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/?p=399\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m working on a deal with another game store in which GameMasters.com will be donating a fair amount of games. Why?&nbsp; Well, for one, they are old out of print games (some even made by companies that no longer exist), for two GameMasters.com is a major supporter of the smaller local game shops.&nbsp; I don\u2019t&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"button small blue\" href=\"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/?p=399\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geekery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/pokedex.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamemasters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}