{"id":166,"date":"2013-12-05T21:02:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T05:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/?p=166"},"modified":"2013-12-05T21:02:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T05:02:19","slug":"london-drugs-a-cache-of-limited-edition-3ds-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/2013\/12\/05\/london-drugs-a-cache-of-limited-edition-3ds-games\/","title":{"rendered":"London Drugs &#8211; A Cache of Limited Edition 3DS Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the dark dusty corners of London Drugs, the employee barely looked up to greet me and I was free to peruse the archives of old computer games that are destined for the trash can one day or another. \u00a0I found treasure in that dimly lit, neglected department.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMAG0837.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-168\" alt=\"IMAG0837\" src=\"http:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMAG0837-300x169.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMAG0837-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMAG0837-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMAG0837-700x394.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me, you are torn between buying a video game at launch or waiting it out and waiting for the price to drop. \u00a0At launch, of course, you get the limited runs, the special editions and the goodies that good publishers like Atlus are bundling up. \u00a0Common bonuses are artbooks, soundtrack CDs, posters and maybe even figurines and plush dolls. \u00a0With so many great games coming out all the time, my commitment to these purchases will probably begin a month or two down the road when the game is half its value. \u00a0If only there was a secret repository of limited edition games that slowly decrease in value in a dusty shelf somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>I was shopping for a few cans of soup when I found it. \u00a0London Drugs has always had a poor electronics section, and I&#8217;ve never really gone in. \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t seem like anyone else has either. \u00a0I found a few of the limited edition 3DS titles that I was looking for, and it seems like there some interesting PC titles there too. \u00a0Selection wasn&#8217;t great, but I grabbed what I could and got out. \u00a0I&#8217;ll definitely head back, but for those of you looking for limited edition titles you missed out on, try and think of a neglected electronics department in a random store, you just might find what you&#8217;re looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the dark dusty corners of London Drugs, the employee barely looked up to greet me and I was free to peruse the archives of old computer games that are destined for the trash can one day or another. \u00a0I found treasure in that dimly lit, neglected department. If you&#8217;re &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69,70],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videogames","tag-used-games","tag-video-games","has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMAG0837.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}