November Notes

November has always been one of my favorite months with Thanksgiving as my favorite holiday. Spending time with family and reflecting on the things that make life great. It’s also a fun month for sports, shopping, and food. CategoryOneGames has had a busy October and November. We’ve added a few… More

Natural Disasters and Collectibles

What sort of impact are natural disasters having on the CCG/TCG market? Many disasters force people from their homes with little time to grab their hobbies or any other non-essential items. How many collections are lost each year between fires, hurricanes, tornados, etc.? I was a teen in the 90’s… More

Musings – Video Games, CCG Market, Comics, TV and Movies.

The Transformers War for Cybertron Siege I releases June 28th. Expect to see singles for the game soon afterwards on CategoryOneGames. In the meantime, singles from Season 1 and 2 have recently been restocked and a selection of San Diego Promos are in stock under the Season 1 set name.… More

Transformers TCG and Insecticons Deck Intro

CategoryOneGames has been diving into the Transformers TCG and loving every second of it. There are multiple deck types to play, many different options for deck construction and so many of our favorite Transformers to play around with. The game is easy enough for kids to play it and in… More

Sailing the 7th Sea

A new addition to CategoryOneGames is the classic pirate game, 7th Sea made by AEG. While I personally have never played the game, I’m excited to help others finish their collections, get the last few cards for a deck or introduce new players to a game they want to try… More

10% off through November 1st and Babylon 5

It’s the spooktacular time of the season where everyone gets an extra 10% off of every order. That’s right, everything on the site including pre-orders gets 10% off at checkout through November 1st. In addition to that, we have a lot of new games hitting the site this month and… More

Comic Con pt 2 – Orange stands out!

With Halloween Expo setup starting today, I’m going to make this series a little longer and cover the different years we have been doing cons. Next week will be this year’s events and then I’ll do a wrapup of Halloween Expo. There were other conventions that I could have done… More

Comic Con pt 1 – Selling Video Games, Comics and Toys

October 13th and 14th will be the last convention that we do for this year unless something randomly happens. This is the second year of the Halloween Expo at the South Town Expo Center in Sandy Utah and our first time attending it. This got me thinking of how we… More

VS System

VS System has to be one of our favorite games here at CategoryOneGames and we are super pumped to have the full run of VS System on our site. For years we have only had a few DC sets but it’s now fully on there. The buylist is setup, we… More

What got you into card Games?

I often think back to my neighborhood growing up as a really fun place with a lot of kids around my same age. In the summer of 1994 I was 13 and living in Franklin, TN and playing a lot of sports with the group of kids in my neighborhood.… More

Pick a Game, any Game!

Over the past month I’ve had a lot of game stores approach me with older inventory. These are either boxes of cards they had in their back room or were part of collections they received from customers. I’ve also been buying up a lot of inventory for games currently being… More

Rolling into 2017 with a 2016 wrap-up.

Happy New Year! As 2016 wraps up and 2017 starts, it always drives me to look at the numbers for the year and make projections for the next year. CategoryOneGames had it’s best year in business and hope to keep that momentum going into 2017. We couldn’t have done it… More

Black Friday through Cyber Monday Sale

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. As a big thank you to the amazing customers of CategoryOneGames, we are having a great sale of 10% off of all items currently in stock and 20% off of all orders over $400. This deal is going on now through the end of Cyber Monday, with… More

Final Fantasy Trading Card Game

One of my memories as a kid was sitting and watching my older cousin of seven years play Final Fantasy III at my Grandma’s house on the Super Nintendo. I was enthralled by the music, the bright sprites, the story that was so engrossing. A girl that was enslaved and… More

I once sold Star Wars cards

I’ve been selling Star Wars CCG online since April of 1998. That all changed this June when the Star Wars Players Committee officially bought all CategoryOneGames inventory for the game and are now selling it in their online store. First off, we are not closing, CategoryOneGames still continues to sell… More

X-Files CCG The Truth is Out There

When TV shows end, they usually are not resurrected for a six episode special fourteen years later. X-Files is trying to find the truth in a new six episode series on Fox starting January 24th. Just like X-Files, older CCGs never die at CategoryOneGames.  The original CCG was released by… More

Thanksgiving Thanks and Sale

I am so thankful for all the great customers that have visited our site throughout the world over the years. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and is a great chance to look back at all the great things going on in my life and the people that have influenced me.… More

That will take some getting used to.

This past week I asked our Facebook and Twitter friends if they would rather have card sets organized by release date or by set name. The overall response was that release date. I wasn’t at all surprised by this. I’ve done it this way for years. When I add a… More

Following those that came before

I’ve always really enjoyed reading other Game/Comic/Hobby store owners blogs. Two of my favorite ones are Quest for Fun by Gary Ray and Desert Sky Games Backstage Pass by Michael Bahr. I view both blogs as helpful tools of the trade that give me plenty of information to learn and… More

Quick Update

We are working hard behind the scenes.  Tons of updates to Star Wars CCG across all sets. Every set but Premiere and A New Hope have seen deep updates and those two sets are going to be fully updated by the end of Sunday. Doomtown has seen a huge boost… More