{"id":1424,"date":"2014-08-14T08:19:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T08:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2015-01-19T14:02:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T14:02:10","slug":"5-surprisingly-valuable-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/08\/14\/5-surprisingly-valuable-games\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Surprisingly Valuable Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>August is Gaming Month on the musicMagpie blog! As well as bringing you loads of gaming goodness, we\u2019re also giving away an Xbox One to anyone who trades selected games this month &#8211; <a title=\"Trade any of these games in August and you could win an Xbox One!\" href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/2014\/08\/05\/xbox-one-trade-competition\/\">check out this post for more details<\/a>. <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no secret that games lose their value pretty quickly, especially if they aren\u2019t very good. No-one wants them, so no-one pays much for them (unless they enjoy playing rubbish).<\/p>\n<p>Some games, however, defy the trend even though you wouldn\u2019t expect them to. Here are 5 games that\u2019ll net you a surprising amount of cash if you decide to sell them with musicMagpie.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Lego Batman 2<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lego-batman-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1415\" alt=\"Lego Batman\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lego-batman-2.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lego-batman-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/lego-batman-2-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We love <i>Lego Batman 2<\/i>, but it\u2019s not the type of game that offers hours of gameplay.<\/p>\n<p>You can still get a fair bit for <em>Lego Batman 2 \u00a0<\/em>though\u00a0&#8211; that should help you save up for the awesome-looking <i>Arkham Knight<\/i>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Barbie Dreamhouse Party<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zwDcZQunYiM\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nOn the face of it, <i>Barbie Dreamhouse Party <\/i>is an innocent Wii game starring everyone\u2019s favourite dead-eyed plastic dolly in a Mario Party rip-off.<\/p>\n<p>But dig a little deeper and you\u2019ll actually find one of the most terrifying games ever. We haven\u2019t had the \u201d\u02dcpleasure\u2019 of playing the game ourselves, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2013\/11\/27\/barbie-dreamhouse-party-creeps-the-crap-out-of-me\/\">this post from Rock, Paper, Shotgun more or less sums it up<\/a>: a crazed AI (inspired by <i>Portal<\/i>\u2019s GLaDOS) forces Barbie and her mates to undertake a series of minigames in her dreamhouse, which has been barricaded shut.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the AI doesn\u2019t actually make them do anything too weird, instead choosing to stick to classic Barbie tasks like \u201d\u02dcputting make up on\u2019 and \u201d\u02dcaccessorising\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dreamhouse Party\u00a0<\/em>is so weird that it&#8217;s become something of a cult classic, which is why you can get a decent amount of cash for it still.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Farming Simulator 2013<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/farming-simulator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1425\" alt=\"Farming Simulator\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/farming-simulator.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/farming-simulator.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/farming-simulator-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be honest: we really, really don\u2019t get the appeal of <i>Farming Simulator 2013<\/i>. Yes, you don\u2019t have to get up at the crack of dawn to milk cows and yes, you don\u2019t have to tolerate the inescapable smell of dung but it\u2019s still basically a job disguised as a game (farming isn\u2019t all village shows and glamour, you know).<\/p>\n<p>And yet, <i>Farming Simulator 2013<\/i> is actually quite a popular game, with thousands preferring the hardcore realism of riding in one of 100 accurately-realised farm vehicles to the cartoon-nonsense of <i>Farmville <\/i>or <i>Harvest Moon<\/i>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Fireman Sam: Action Stations<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/fireman-sam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1426\" alt=\"Fireman Sam\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/fireman-sam.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/fireman-sam.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/fireman-sam-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not sure what\u2019s more surprising, the fact <i>Fireman Sam<\/i> is still going or the fact he\u2019s got his very own videogame, the appropriately-titled <i>Action Stations<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>A quick search for <i>Action Stations<\/i> online yields precious little information on the game, but what information we could find tells us that <i>Action Stations <\/i>is aimed at kids (obviously) and sees Sam taking part in adventures across PontyPandy, including (and don\u2019t get too excited): Sam\u2019s Fire Fight, Cook With Elvis, Park with Penny and, most excitingly of all, Mike\u2019s Match-3.<\/p>\n<p>We mock, but we\u2019ll always have a special place in our heart for Sam, a nostalgia that you can\u2019t put a price on.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/brazil-world-cup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1427\" alt=\"Brazil World Cup\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/brazil-world-cup.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/brazil-world-cup.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/brazil-world-cup-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The World Cup has barely been gone a month and yet most of us are already doing our best to erase the memory of England\u2019s monumental failure in the group stage &#8211; and that includes selling this gaming artifact.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup game was a bit of a weird one anyway, as EA launched a World Cup version of <i>Ultimate Team<\/i> on <i>FIFA 14<\/i> at around the same time which was more or less the same game and, depending on how much you spent on packs, a bit cheaper too.<\/p>\n<p>With the Premier League season about to kick off, now is a good time to sell this.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a title=\"Sell any of these games\" href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/start-selling\/\">Sell any of these games<\/a> along with a game from our selected games list and you could win an Xbox One &#8211; <a title=\"Trade any of these games in August and you could win an Xbox One!\" href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/2014\/08\/05\/xbox-one-trade-competition\/\">check out this blog post for more details<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August is Gaming Month on the musicMagpie blog! As well as bringing you loads of gaming goodness, we\u2019re also giving away an Xbox One to anyone who trades selected games this month &#8211; check out this post for more details. It\u2019s no secret that games lose their value pretty quickly, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[593],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3372,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/3372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}