So we are a little over half way through October, and you know what that means, all the good video games for the holiday season(October through February for gamers) are going to start coming out (the monsoon season of video games as some may call it). First reaction? WOOT WOOT tons of new games next few months! Second reaction? *checks pocket* OH NOES I left this left this Reese's in my pocket and now its all crushed into my jeans! Oh ya, and I have no money. If your reaction is similar, then don't worry help is only a few poorly written sentences away. If your reaction wasn't quite that, then feel free to go straight to the comments portion and gloat about your wads of cash, the rest of this won't pertain to your kind. Ok, I think they are gone, onto the top 5 ways to make cash fast in order to stock up your gaming reserves to last through summer (the dry season of video games).

5. Sell your non-vital organs.

Don't worry, I know the first question. “Why non vital, surely my heart will sell for more than my kidneys, right?” You can't play games if you aren't alive, don't facepalm at yourself though, I almost fell for that one too. It was the perfect plan, till some fancy smancy doctor (sure he has a PHD but did he beat Contra? I think not) had to tell me he wouldn't remove my lungs to sell on ebay. I'm sure he was just plotting to prevent me from taking his copy of Hello Kitty Island Adventures on release day with my profits. Ok so you sell something useless, like your kidney or an eyeball (you get to wear an eyepatch for this one too, how can you go wrong with that!) and make a decent amount of money, enough to get you all the games on the list and more, so why isn't this higher on the list? You can only do this once, so you have to pick which year to sell your organs, for who knows if next year SUPER AWESOME GAME 2 is coming out and you've already pawned off your organs.

4. Sell your old games.

Of course as soon as you sell a game, you be struck with nostalgia flu and desire to play that game, so be careful what you sell. DO NOT SELL YOUR GAMES TO GAMESTOP, JUST QUIT RIGHT THERE, DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. Be smart, sell them on ebay, newspaper ads, craigslist, to a friend, anything but Gamestop (read any retail game selling/buying/reselling store), you'll get way less than what you could really sell it for. (Pretend there's a video here of a gamestop employee telling you in zero punctuation style about their policies, since it was removed from youtube.)

3. Dance half naked on a mail box in town

Hey if it works in WoW I'm sure it works in real life. It's really great if you happen to be really short, just dye your hair pink and say gnomey things (“I think that last vendor short changed me. Oh, that was a bad one.”), and you'll earn twice the money. Even better, if you're just really hairy you might be able to pass off as a Tauren, people love their half naked cows more than half naked gnomes for some reason.

2. Do nerdy things.

You know that guy who always bugs you to fix (by fix I mean run a virus scan and remove those trojans he just installed) his computer? Do it and charge a little. Ebay off that lv 100 MMO account you never play anymore. Make some websites for someone or fix their broken websites. Problem shoot some computers that won't run (ie reformat the hard drive and reinstall the OS). Make a few gaming bets, or play in a local competition. Stop them spies from SAPPAN MAH SENTRAY, Play halo on legendary mode for that guy across the street, be creative your a gamer, surely someone needs your amazing button mashan skills.

1. Run a Canadian drug smuggling operation.

Everyone knows that Canada (America's Hat) has cheap medication. Sure they all joke about it, but no one actually does it, the market is open and free for the taking! Train a few beavers to run underwater through the rivers and set up your connections (pay them in maple syrup of course, as it is the official currency in Canada) and just lay back as the money flows in.