Stupid Things You've Overheard at the Game Shops
I was talking to a friend the other day and the subject turned to stupid things we had overheard in game shops (not just the company GAME but all shops that sell games) both from customers and staff.
I get all my stuff online nowadays but i remember quite a few odd/stupid things i over heard when i used to shop around.
1. Two kids arguing over which was better The Getaway or GTA San Andreas to which the Pro-Getaway kid said it was way better than GTA as if you get hit by a car in the road you die instantly. I cant remember much more but i thought that was the most stupid plus point i have heard.
2. This was more odd than stupid i over heard an Irish guy call Spiderman 2
"Speederman 2" and he said it a few times.
3. A Sk8ter Boi saying that the Tony Hawk games get twice as good with each new release. Id say they peaked at number 3.
anyway they are not exactly funny but i wondered if anyone else had overheard stupid stuff people say in game shops.
I get all my stuff online nowadays but i remember quite a few odd/stupid things i over heard when i used to shop around.
1. Two kids arguing over which was better The Getaway or GTA San Andreas to which the Pro-Getaway kid said it was way better than GTA as if you get hit by a car in the road you die instantly. I cant remember much more but i thought that was the most stupid plus point i have heard.
2. This was more odd than stupid i over heard an Irish guy call Spiderman 2
"Speederman 2" and he said it a few times.
3. A Sk8ter Boi saying that the Tony Hawk games get twice as good with each new release. Id say they peaked at number 3.
anyway they are not exactly funny but i wondered if anyone else had overheard stupid stuff people say in game shops.
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100% accurate conclusion! :)
Anyway not in a gamestore but I did hear 2 kids way back arguing that Sonic was better than Mario one because the graphics were better and two because he was faster..............OK?
Remember overhearing an argument at the arcades one time by 2 little skiprats that Fatal Fury was better than streetfighter 2, because each character all had at least 3 specials each, you could jump backwards and forwards in and out of the background and foreground, and how some characters had more than one way of fighting. I thought it was quite funny as Fatal Fury only had 3 playable characters, the special moves were rock to pull off and the zooming in and the jumping back and forth was actually more of an annoyance that wasn't really fixed until the KOF games came out (I don't even think the later ones have this feature anymore? Good riddance I say!). I do however quite like the original FF and played it a lot more in the arcades than SF2, but it's no way better than it, that was just pure stupidity on that kids part.
Told this one before but the staff in Gamestation told me after I phoned them that they'd take a suitcase full of Commode games from me, and after lugging the suitcase on the bus and all the way there the dickhead behind the counter told me "No we've just thrown a load of these away in the skip out back, because nobody is buying them". I got really pissed off and he made up some cock n' bull story about some guy on the phone not having a clue what he was on about, as one of the guys in the store made for the back room. I assume it was the plank I spoke to on the phone. After that the guy who told me no made up some crap about the guy who was on the phone not being there, and they were going to fire him or he'd already been fired or some crap like that? Thing that annoyed me is they had a Commode locked up in a glass cabinet just behind where I was standing, with games and a joystick and a datacorder, and various other bits n' bobs. Bunch of useless arseholes!
I've never been back to that store nor' will I ever go back there, bunch of thick bastards the lot of them!
I went into HMV next door and asked them and they pointed me to a Gamestation which was way more cheaper and well stocked. I told the the guy about the GAME employee and he laughed and said it didnt surprise him. He then told me of 3 other game shops and a couple of market stalls to check out even though i hadn't bought a single thing. I bought quite a few games from the other shops that day.
The thing that annoyed me was id already spent money at GAME yet they lied to me but Gamestation were overly helpful and i didnt spend any money there. I never visited GAME again after that and Gamestation got most of my trade from then on. I get all my stuff online nowadays but i heard about GAME buying out Gamestation a few years ago so have never bothered revisiting it.
"So, how many games have you got?"
"Only Black Ops. It's all you need."
Yes, quite. Keep telling yourself that...
I don't want riff raff playing Civ anyways :D
That may just have been his accent.
he could have been south african. :lol:
"What's that old Nintendo your Dad has got?"
"It's called a Nintendo 64. It came out in 1966."
What's interesting is that he was very specific about the year. I can only think it stems from his Dad talking about the last time England won the World Cup or something.
I had to smirk when I was on a train recently playing Space Harrier on my GameBoy Micro. There were two teenage girls playing some girly slow game on their chunky DSes and one of them gestured towards me and said to the other with genuine interest 'Oh, what's that he's got?'.
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
Another reason why HMV are going bust.
"haha look at all the old game nerds...oh wait"
4 was crap, but they did sorta improve on it with THUG, made a bit of progress with THUG2 then threw it all away with THAW. THPG was crap on the PS2, but I thought it might be better on the 360 (like how THPS3 was crap on the PS1 but great on the PS2). I couldn't have been more wrong.
Unfortunately our Gamestation has become more like Game. They used to be great with all the retro stuff (there was even a VirtualBoy for sale!) but when they got bought out by Game they stopped all that. The only retro stuff we get in there now is PS2/GC/Xbox games.
The staff are now only slightly better than in Game, but nowhere near as friendly or helpful and chatty as they used to be.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
I've done the same thing, but I can get away with it. I got asked for ID when I bought Dead Space 2 two years ago. I was 31 at the time!! :lol:
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
Two years ago?? That's some pre-order...
I think Electronics Boutique used to take preorders for Duke Nukem Forever.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B000093FQ9/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1302537623&sr=8-1
Some guy in his mid-forties served me when I bought it, someone I suspected knew sod all about games, who confirmed my suspicions with the immortal words "You should hold onto this. Someday it'll be a collectors item."
Well, I thought, shaking my head as I walked away from the counter, if it wasn't for the other 10 million copies of the same box set that had already been sold to virtually every playstation owner in the country...
Never saw him working in the shop again.
Oops, I meant Dead Space 1. I only pre-ordered DS2 in november I think.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
I've got that somewhere, I'd better keep it in good nick now.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
Now that ain't too bad when you're on the quid, but when you're paying by the dollar that's actually quite a bit really. Shops don't really sell PS1 games any cheaper either here, they all have "It's collectible fever" even if they've had 15 copies sitting unsold on the shelf for months.
Maybe if they stopped for a second and actually thought about it they'd realise that those 15 copies of Twisted Metal aren't shifting, because they're crap and not collectible and nobody wants to pay almost as much as a game retailed for 15 years after it came out, especially when it's a crap one :roll:
On the other hand Amazon has a used copy of GTA: DC for $2.74 (and a PC version for $6.30, somebody has their heads screwed on at least) :lol:
www.actsofgord.com/Annoy/
"Do you sell mod chips for the PlayStation?"
"The door is to your left. Try not to let it hit you on the way out."
"What?"
"I'm politely saying get the hell out."
"All I'm asking for is a mod chip."
"All you're asking for is to steal games, and you're in a game store. Your mother must be so proud."
"You're an asshole."
"You're a wannabe thief."
"You better watch what you say! Things might happen to you!"
"Why? You have a friend who protects you and makes people be friendly to you?"
"I'm never coming back!"
"If I sold you a mod chip, you would never come back anyway. You won't be missed."
Was trying to buy a replacement cable for an xbox 360 that goes into a CRT non HD telly, and is slightly better than the one it shipped with, couldn't remember what they were called.
gimboid behind the counter told me they didn't exist
I dug out the magazine review, and he told me they didn't sell them
I found the advert in the magazine, that said gamestation sold them
he told me they didn't have any
I looked behind him, scanned the shelves, and pointed one out
he then said "get and HD telly mate" as he put it in a bag
I am not his mate. Grrrr. :(
:D
Hehe....nah, I actually quit because they said how amazing I'd been over Christmas, and how they were really impressed, yadda yadda yadda....that they'd like to keep me on...And then they offered me 8 hours a week! :x
Used to hear some great stuff from the customers though....one lady asked me if the Wii recorded your movements like a camera..
"No," I reassured her, "it just senses your movements...."
"Oh thank goodness", she replied, and told me she had been dancing around naked in front of it when she was drunk the night before, and was worried her kids would be able to access the footage...:lol:
And I had more than one person bring back a PS2 game saying it wouldn't work on their Xbox, or vice versa........
Acts of Gord?
http://www.actsofgord.com/
I do recall a moment when i owned my own game market stall 97-99,a young kid walks into my stall and asks for "Thomb raider"-i said "you mean TOMB Raider?",there was a pause of 5 seconds he bites his top lip and his eyes roll in to the back of his head as he carefully goes through the spelling in his mind then he reply`s "er.....yes!".
I remember later thinking sheesh! what are they teaching kids in schools these days.lool
They ended up buying it anyway, leaving me with a solitary tatty display box that we couldnt display, a consequence of which was that people were constantly asking if we had it in stock.
Also, I had dim-witted parents coming up and asking if the DS "played they games". Yes, it plays games. "Whit's the difference between tha' wan 'n' tha' wan?" That one's green and that one's red. "Cin ye play that Halo oan it?" O_o
See post above the one you quoted :smile: