You would think after playing video games for nearly 20 years I would have learned the most valuable lesson in protecting ones favorite and classic games: be careful of what you sell. A great example, while possibly a bad example of the taste of games I have so feel free to mock as you like, is the one favorite I sold three years ago to give me some cash to dive into the Sims 2 franchise. I sold Wizardry 8 which at that time was five years old and had gone through it's gold and editor's choice re-release with all the great patches already installed on it. I believe I paid $29.99 for it and roughly a year and a half later got $8-$10 for it at a local video game redistributor. I felt slightly pressured to sell a lot of my old PC games since the store was not going to be buying back PC games ever again in a few weeks. Now just a few months later (after Sims 2 with university had cooled off and nightlife was a month away) darn it did I not get that temptation to load up Wizardry 8 again but remembered I sold the darn thing. To wrap it all up, yes you can find the game still but original re-released discs are selling on average for $65! It can be dowloaded for a cheaper $35 but still the price for this old classic is just incredible. Lesson learned and hopefully passed on to all who read this: if you have a classic or favorite that you loved to play even if you havn't touched it in years, don't sell it! Odds are if you do sell it and eventually want to revisit it you will pay out the heiny to get another copy. Just pack it away somewhere safe or better yet give it to a friend who you can rely on to keep it and still get some decent gaming time out of it.

Moving on to a promise I made earlier, I have decided to renig on posting the Sims 2 quick creature creating processes on my blog. Before anyone starts throwing stones, here's the alternative I chose: go visit the below link for access to all the processes and also check out the Sims Authority Union while you're at it. Maybe sign up and join us for some chit chat about dropping satellites on sims before you leave? :D At least I hope anyone who checks out these processes finds them as useful as I do.

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/unions/articles.php?union_id=RSA&cat_ids=36