{"id":602,"date":"2008-04-23T13:43:06","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T19:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2008-04-23T13:43:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T19:43:06","slug":"mario-kart-wii-pre-ordered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/mario-kart-wii-pre-ordered\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Kart Wii: pre-ordered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two things I <em>never<\/em> do:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I never shop at GameStop<\/li>\n<li>I never pre-order games.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Today, I did <em>both<\/em> of those things. I feel a little ashamed of this fact, which is probably why I feel the need to confess my sin openly.<\/p>\n<p>The gist of it is that GameStop has a <a href=\"http:\/\/gonintendo.com\/?p=39708\">marginally good deal going on<\/a> for Mario Kart Wii. Trade in two Wii games from their list, and you can get Mario Kart Wii for just $10. We had in our possession two Wii games on their list that were &#8211; for lack of a better term: <em>crap<\/em>. We had Cars: Mater-National, which my son loved to play, and Mario &amp; Sonic Special Olympics (yeah, I went there), which Amanda and I attempted to play once, and never touched again. My son had no issue with giving up Cars since we were getting &#8211; in his words &#8211; a <em>better game<\/em> in the process. I like how he thinks.<\/p>\n<p>Trade in two worthless games in order to get one that we will love and cherish? Yeah, I think I&#8217;m okay with that. The deal essentially portioned out a $20 trade-in value to each game, which is <em>generous<\/em> considering their substandard quality. I think we came out ahead, which, in dealing with GameStop, is generally how I like things to turn out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll pick up the game Monday over lunch. Monday night, <em>we race<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two things I never do: I never shop at GameStop I never pre-order games. Today, I did both of those things. I feel a little ashamed of this fact, which is probably why I feel the need to confess my sin openly. The gist of it is that GameStop has a marginally good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[564,53,126],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-mario-kart","tag-nintendo","tag-wii","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}