{"id":6510,"date":"2015-05-29T18:35:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T01:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6510"},"modified":"2015-06-06T18:40:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T01:40:33","slug":"6510","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/29\/6510\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Xevious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/gamestop-to-become-a-retro-gaming-destination-21379840\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from SlashGear<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>GameStop to become a retro gaming destination<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/author\/lindsey\/\" target=\"_blank\">by Lindsey Caldwell <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.slashgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-20-1-gamestop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/tags\/gamestop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gamestop<\/a> isn&#8217;t just accepting the old consoles for trade-ins, the company aims to be a new destination for retro gamers everywhere. Unfortunately, you won&#8217;t be able to find priceless, old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/atari-e-t-cartridges-from-landfill-auctioned-for-up-to-1500-15355681\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>E.T.<\/em> game cartridges<\/a> in stores because GameStop will be selling its retro games through an online shop after each game goes through its Texas-based refurbishment center.<\/p>\n<p>You can start trading in retro games, consoles, and accessories as soon as April 25th, but they won&#8217;t be available for purchase until about eight weeks after that. We received word of GameStop&#8217;s retro gaming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/gamestop-to-offer-trade-credit-for-old-consoles-like-the-ps2-15379110\/\" target=\"_blank\">pilot program<\/a> last week, and now we&#8217;ve found new details about how the program will work. According to John Haes, who is the head of the division, Gamestop will accept games, consoles and first-party accessories for Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo, NES, first generation Playstation, Sega Dreamcast, and Sega Genesis; but, they won&#8217;t be taking any aftermarket controls, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/tags\/mad-catz\/\" target=\"_blank\">these by Mad Catz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/gamestop-to-become-a-retro-gaming-destination-21379840\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at SlashGear<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from SlashGear GameStop to become a retro gaming destination by Lindsey Caldwell Gamestop isn&#8217;t just accepting the old consoles for trade-ins, the company aims to be a new destination for retro gamers everywhere. Unfortunately, you won&#8217;t be able to find priceless, old E.T. game cartridges in stores because GameStop will be selling its retro games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}