To honor the founders of Cheap Ass Gamer for their important contributions to the gaming culture, this trading card and award were presented at the Classic Game Fest Trading Card Awards Ceremonies, July 29, 2017, in Austin, Texas.
Cheapassgamer.com is the world's largest video game deals website where people share and discuss video game deals. Cheap Ass Gamer (CAG) is an online bbs community which specifically focuses on video game deals. The site was founded in May, 2003 by David Abrams, who uses the pseudonym "CheapyD" on the forums. Cheap Ass Gamer or "CAG" has over 700,000 visitors per month and serves over 10 million pages. CAG is heavily dependent on user-submitted deals. CAG has been host to two video game podcasts, the CAGcast, and CAG Foreplay, but the latter is on permanent hiatus. The CAGcast won the Podcast Awards Gaming category in 2007, was a finalist in the Gaming and People's Choice categories in 2008 and 2009, and was a finalist in MCV's Games Media Awards podcast category in 2007. The CAGcast is consistently listed in iTunes Top 25 Video Game Podcasts. CAG runs community raffles which raise money for the Child's Play charity. In 2012, CAG raised $38,400, bringing the total amount raised since 2004 to $256,140. In 2009, CAG raised over $5,000 for the Extra Life Charity. In 2011, CAGs raised over $24,000 for Japan tsunami/earthquake relief. To learn more about CAG, go to: https://www.cheapassgamer.com/