i saw Anthem at £4.99 at my nearest GAME shop.
there were so many copies of it sitting there as well. even a fiver is too much to ask apparently.
there were so many copies of it sitting there as well. even a fiver is too much to ask apparently.
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Funniest thing you ever saw at a game shop?
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Went to my regular GameStop a few years back to take advantage of a buy 2 get 1 free deal on their used games. As I'm looking around there's a woman with her son or whatever getting rung up. So the cashier starts explaining how there's violence, blood, sex and all the usual M rated jazz and the lady instantly says that he can't get the game. So the kid just flips out. Was hilarious.
A guy ahead of me at a Gamestop in 2011 trying to preorder a copy of "Final Fantasy Ecks Eye Eye Eye Dash Two"
The look on the cashier's face was incredible.
The look on the cashier's face was incredible.
At a local game store once I saw a boxed copy of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for NES on a shelf bdhind the counter. The only thing I could think was that a manager must have been an AVGN fan.
We did this at my store it was kinda a meme that went around so a bunch of stores did it
Ok, so piracy was rampant during the PS2 era in my country, anyways, there was this store inside a mall that you could call, say which game you wanted, show up an hour later and they would have your copy of the game ready for pick up.
I had already bought from them multiple times, but this one time when I arrived to pick up my game the girl at the counter told me she couldn't give it to me inside the store because cops were inspecting the game stores at the mall that day, so she told me to follow her and we ended up walking into the women bathroom and then we both entered a toilet cubicle where she had a bag full of pirated games and that's how I got my copy of Metal Gear Solid 3 Subistence, great game.
I had already bought from them multiple times, but this one time when I arrived to pick up my game the girl at the counter told me she couldn't give it to me inside the store because cops were inspecting the game stores at the mall that day, so she told me to follow her and we ended up walking into the women bathroom and then we both entered a toilet cubicle where she had a bag full of pirated games and that's how I got my copy of Metal Gear Solid 3 Subistence, great game.
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In the early 00s, I saw two parents/grandparents and a young teenager asking a staff member at EB Games where they stock the burnt discs. When they were told that they don't stock pirated games, they said they just had a mod chip installed in their console and they thought that pirated discs were just home brand/generic versions of a game.
Not really in a game store but a Wendy's
Many years ago, me and my friends were at a line at Wendy's, talking about videogames since it was E3 week that time. The guy in front of us turned around and went into a sudden ramble about micro transactions and how they would be the downfall Of the industry. He finished rambling and just like that took his order and left.
Many years ago, me and my friends were at a line at Wendy's, talking about videogames since it was E3 week that time. The guy in front of us turned around and went into a sudden ramble about micro transactions and how they would be the downfall Of the industry. He finished rambling and just like that took his order and left.
There was a local game shop near my house during the Dreamcast era. Somehow I became aware of the upcoming game "Seaman" and got really hyped for it as a 11-12 year old.
I probably called that store a dozen times asking "Do you guys have Seaman?" "When does Seaman come out?" "Can you order Seaman from Japan for me?"
The last time a clerk yelled at me because he thought I was crank calling asking for "semen". I didn't understand this exchange until years later. I just wanted to talk to a fish.
I probably called that store a dozen times asking "Do you guys have Seaman?" "When does Seaman come out?" "Can you order Seaman from Japan for me?"
The last time a clerk yelled at me because he thought I was crank calling asking for "semen". I didn't understand this exchange until years later. I just wanted to talk to a fish.
This thread is indeed a sobering reminder of the disparity in what people consider "funny" (or, to be slightly less diplomatic, the yawning gap between how funny people think they are, and the reality). Not that there aren't some truly funny stories in here, but man...
Oh yeah, my example. I had an import store clerk tell me that Final Fantasy Tactics was a better game than Final Fantasy 7, because it came in only one CD, which meant it was more optimized.
Was at GameStop with a few friends and we saw Pokémon Let's Go in the Switch section. My friend and I have a running joke where we say the other is wrong for liking either Pikachu or Eevee better, so I said something like "Oh, see someone traded in Let's Go Eevee but not Pikachu, I wonder why?" and the employee came over and started talking our ear off about how he hates Let's Go and how he traded it in to get The Division 2 because it's such a better game. Really turned me off from wanting to say anything else at the store in fear that he was going to butt in again. A few minutes later, I found Nintendogs for the 3DS (a game I kind of wanted at the time) and the same employee sees me with the game and says "You should get that! It's better than a real dog because it stays a puppy forever and no one likes dogs once they aren't puppies anymore." After that I just left because I didn't want to hear any more from him. Still haven't been back to that GameStop.
So the game store where I lived when I was a kid happened to be a computer repair shop and a florist, I know, it's weird.
I tell my mom I want to buy a game, my mom doesn't really want me to buy more games since I had enough games (I had two) it's 1996 and I'm 12 so gaming hasn't really become a thing in the small village I live in. But she gives me some money but she doesn't have change so she hands my a large bill and send me down to the Computer/Florist to buy a game, a cheap game.
But when I arrive I see Diablo, I have no fucking idea what the game is or what you do, but I buy it and it's waaay much more than I'm supposed to spend on game. But being 12 I think that if I buy my mom some flowers with the game I'll get away with it. So I buy some roses and walk home.
Mom was not that pleased that I bought a game at full price and spent almost all the money I had with me, but I bought flowers, not that it helped my situation at all haha.
I tell my mom I want to buy a game, my mom doesn't really want me to buy more games since I had enough games (I had two) it's 1996 and I'm 12 so gaming hasn't really become a thing in the small village I live in. But she gives me some money but she doesn't have change so she hands my a large bill and send me down to the Computer/Florist to buy a game, a cheap game.
But when I arrive I see Diablo, I have no fucking idea what the game is or what you do, but I buy it and it's waaay much more than I'm supposed to spend on game. But being 12 I think that if I buy my mom some flowers with the game I'll get away with it. So I buy some roses and walk home.
Mom was not that pleased that I bought a game at full price and spent almost all the money I had with me, but I bought flowers, not that it helped my situation at all haha.
One time, the cashier tried to sell me on getting $5 "scratch protection" for a blu-ray disc and that was pretty hilarious.
Wait... that was every single time that I went into a GameStop. Never got old though!
Wait... that was every single time that I went into a GameStop. Never got old though!
Wasn't a game shop, but at a Walmart. An older Filipino woman was Christmas shopping for I presume her grandkids and she asked the clerk for the Sony "Psssssp" saying it aloud one word like a whisper. She kept on saying Sony Pssssssp. It was quite funny, then I told the clerk I think she means P S P.
He laughed, then she looked at her handwritten note and started laughing too.
He laughed, then she looked at her handwritten note and started laughing too.
I worked at a GameStop and I had a guy come in and attempt to trade in a ps2. He told us that his roommate stole his pot and he was trading it in to get reimbursed. We told him that had no value and I offered to buy it off him for $20. He agreed and left after getting paid. That night when I got home I noticed the PS2 network adapter cover wasn't sitting right. I opened it up and found a bunch of pot.
