Game Store Stories Thread

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fucking gamestop

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Do they even sell games at GameStop anymore?

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Bringing out the pasta for this

So I was walking into gamestop, yeah, I know, right, I had gotten some cash and I'm looking to check out their used gba and ds game case, you know, fifty copies of yoshi's new island and maybe two battle network fours. I get in there and there's this big guy, muscles the size of a truck, the sorta guy who'd buy two gamespheres, buy every calla duty, throw people out of planes, just because he can. He's talking with the cashier, some preppy blonde chick over the new souls like or whatever they call those marios nowadays, hey did I tell you about this lady, breasts of mount everest, no, wait, the guy. So the guy's saying, "look, I have a receipt for this console from your online store, I'm getting my money back," and now at this point I notice the green box he's holding in his left arm. So, yeah, apparently xbox go home ain't working, so the guy's coming into the store to get his money back. Now the lady, did I tell you about her, chest the size of a japanese anime, and I don’t mean the grind to level 9999 ones. She's been trying to keep this crazy guy down while she's trying to call the manager or somethin' so it won't be her problem anymore. Now there's this kid and his mom there too, you know, need to get the new flygrounders. So, I'm just viewing the case, right, when the kid goes up to the guy, and he says, get this, "oh, you just need to check the rebate option if you wanna send it back," and the guy looks at him and he's starin' like he just saw his master plan go up in smoke. The lady cuts in at this point, saying yeah, yeah, do the rebate thing, and pretending she just looked it up herself instead of having the kid do her job. So, Mr. Man walks out without somehow burning down the store, the mom and the kid buy their statue shit, and I got my canvas curse, so everybody's happy.
But then, just as I was leaving, someone looking exactly like that purple hair ninja girl, you know, that dead or alive mascot, she walks straight in, past me pretending to look in the five buck bin, goes up to the lady, I told you about her right, we're talking mighty no 9 budget level of tits here, big fat, tight squeeze, at the register, and says "hey did you get that new Kagura in yet?" Now at that point I knew I was getting in over my head so I hightailed it back to my house and spent the past couple of hours going through my new additions to my collection of shit I could've just emulated.

Man, that guy was a real hothead.

F-Fucking Gamestop

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How would that even happen? Buying and trading Madden annual games is probably enough by itself to sustain their entire business structure.

It's not as if the retard working the register in an independent game store is any less of a useless human being

>walk into EB Games

Still buy games I know are worth it at walmart to this day. Shame all but one video store closed down in my town, but I feel safe knowing I can still at least rent a game to know if it's shit or not.

sage for shit thread by the way

I seriously hate Gamestop. Thats not even counting stupid shit they do like accept trade ins of games without their cases or now have their stores be half Pop figures and half video games.

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I haven't been in a game store since like 1998. I was returning King's Quest 8 and got Half-Life instead. How I made that foolish choice to begin with is lost to time.

Sometimes things are good

EB Games were great, mine closed together with the Blockbuster Video which hosted them.

Never bought anything from Gamespot afterwards, and never will.

You should have let her fuck you in the ass. Duh.

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Oh shit, I fucked up, it was EB Games. Same thing.

How long was his neck?

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Can someone give me an actual reason as to why there are so many shitposting threads as of lately?

Implying this is a new problem.

Too bad you like video games and live in Germany though.

It seems like there was a sudden drop in quality within the past seven months. Since Christmas or so.

Same thing happening on a lot of other boards. It could be

Or any number of things really.

because summerfags

Ok experience, but I won't be going back because the controller I purchased broke and the clerk was a whore

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School is starting on tuesday so the summerfags need to post as much as possible before school starts.

It was alright, but had this one shelf of "gamer merchandise" as in minecraft posters n shit
>there's only "fresh" releases such as buggy game x and flopped game y on big sale try to guess them
>except manage to find saints row 1 for a fiver It's alright
It made me disappointed that people actually buy all that shit and not video games. Pic related.

He just wanted some games, man.

The only games I see on the PC section at Gamestop is Mad Max and X-COM 2, so it might be one of those.
Physical PC games are dead

>Buy a game

i come from a small town, dude. he could have just found me at the bar or at my work and done the deal outside of his store. he'd still be selling preorders and stealing swag if he'd just used his head

Nice guess, but they're JC3 and Nu-Doom.
In fact both of them flopped, but JC3 also has its own problems much more notable than flopping.

feels good

Holy SHIT.

Damn I'm dumb

I just got Armored Core 3, 4 and FA yesterday for less than $10.
Thank God the employees are dumb fuck casuals and don't know the value of anything that isn't AAA trash.

I'm playing Armored Core 1 right now. The only other one I had ever played was 4 and 2 when I was a young lad.

You did the right thing, user. She probably gives 3DS pens out to every guy who comes into the store.

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Bumping an epic thread.

why do u do this

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Anyway I went off on a tangent, back to the story.

So you're a Mexican?

Got one that happened to me.

Who?

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Don't hold it against him user, he's been hurt before.

It's an underage lookalike porn actress.
She looks 13 in some of her shots.

Monroe Sweet aka Katerina Kozlova, she's a glamour porn girl who did a video of her doing suggestive but not sexual stuff with another girl, and did otherwise only solo videos of her touching herself.

Russian, bought fake tits after she retired, married a dirty fucking slav because she is also a slav.

Also since some fatass fucking tumblr whale has taken up the name, I should point out not MONROE SWEETS, that one should lay off the fucking sweets.

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fuck off casual

fuck off cuckchan

I had a smarmy faggot in a computer shop get indignant with me when I said if they don't want to be competitive, I can always buy online, he said "yeah but can you get it before Friday?" And he said that to me .. on a Tuesday. I was like "yeah, I could probably get it by tomorrow, and with the express shipping it'll still be cheaper than your shit hut."

The local EB games is closing down. They probably shouldn't have spent so much on sale banners.
Seriously though it's like salethulu was awoken in their store and is slowly reclaiming the earth one mall at a time.

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*shoot shit with people from old high school who now work there

Is death too much to ask for?

Nice.

Why must you turn this into a thread of lies?!

We have Gamestops in Canadia.

We do?

VERY few.

shopping-canada.com/stores-brands/gamestop

EB Games is a division of GameStop, yes. There's technically 7 non-EB Games GameStop stores in Canada, but all of them are in the middle of buttfuck no where. There's over 300 EB Games though.

It was broken because the laser reader got scratched, shit is too expensive to repair.

There are EB Games in the Northwest US at least

Where I live, school's been back in session since the last week of July or so. I'm not not sure that's all that big a factor.

sounds like Summer quarter unless you life in Asia or something.

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No, the year-round schools in my town (K-12 anyhow) get out for summer the first or second week of June and start up for school again the last or second to last week of July, which was always fucking annoying since it's really fucking hot here in the summer, and many of the campuses are outdoors, barring a few (one of which I thankfully went to).

I almost saged impulsively

My gaystop is trying to move all of last gen's games. They're all like $5-10, except for a few outliers

Are you sure the gamestop employee wasnt making sure you didn't buy something he called "dibs" on?

FUCKING GAMESTOP

He was probably doing it on purpose to keep the game, then when you came back, he'd be like "NO IT WAS TOTALLY IN THERE, YOU'RE TRYING TO SCAM US"

Worked at a GameStop, we kept used consoles in the bathroom. Plumbing in the mall backed up, shit came out of the pipes, we had PS2s/GameCubes/Xboxes full of urine, feces, menstrual blood and maybe even cum. Manager wanted to destroy everything, because that shit is nasty, but corporate insisted he clean & sell whatever wasn't damaged. No other employee would touch the things so he did it all himself.

If you ever crack open a used console you bought from GameStop ~10 years ago and find a turd, there you go.

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There's a few I've been meaning to pick up while prices are low, but I can't find a local Fucking Gamestop with El Shaddai for the PS3, and nowhere around here that stocks vidya has one anyhow.

Hell, if anything, the price on it's gone up slightly as Gamestop, from like $6 to $10 now.

Fortunately that never happened. Probably since he had other employees and customers there, but still.

Oh god, the stories I could tell from being a former customer/employee. I stopped reserving anything from Gamestop after I had a shitty experience at a midnight release (WoW: MoP), and I haven't given them a dime for 3-4 years.

In my college years, there was a Gamestop at a mall that always had douche bag employees who thought they were godly because their store would get the most reserves and subs. Another store near me had a guy who acted like Buckley's Mary Sue from the shitty CAD webcomics. They were lucky they were in popular strip malls and malls where the typical consumer were parents or stupid people that loved Call of Duty and sports games. I did met a few cool employees who hooked me up with decent trade-ins, or would chit-chat about games/dumb shit (one chick working there was a CAD fangirl, but then she realized Buckley is a douche bag. She was nice for the most part).

Midnight release experiences were mostly fun unless they were for Nintendo stuff. When I went to pick up Wow, I always met some chill people, but the people waiting for Nintendo stuff were some of the smelliest, most unlikable ass-holes out there. When Brawl had a midnight release, I berated some autist when he tried to get brag about his epenis/Smash cred instead of answering a question about a GameStop pre-release tourney I missed (It was on my mom's birthday at the time, and I'm not blowing her birthday off for fucking Smash Bros). Another cool experience I had was when another Gamestop around the placed I moved up to allowed people to pick up other games when they were doing a Forza midnight release. I picked up my copy of Tekken 6 on that night, and it was fun talking to other people who bought different games. I stopped going to midnight releases after some employee was being a douche bag with me over a fucking receipt despite I paid for fucking Mists of Pandaria, and was there 5 hours ago to pay it off (He was there when I paid it off too).

Working at Gamestop is one of the worst retail gigs anyone can take. You're better off working at a dealership, manufacturing place, or even a fast food joint.

(Satan trips checked)
Chicagoland here. Gamestops used to be called EB Games as recent as the late 00's over here, but all adopted the "Gamestop" brand name several years back.

We used to have a mixture of Gamestop and EB games, among other places like Play'n'Trade and Game Crazy.

Game Crazy died with Hollywood Video, Play'n'Trade got driven out by Gamestop, and everywhere I've known previously as an EB games got shut down after the company got bought by Gamestop, as there were already too many Gamestops around anyhow (very little need to have a gamestop on one side of the road and an eb games on the other side if one company owns both chains). I haven't seen an EB games in a long time, to the point I thought they might have become a Canada/Australia focused branch.

My experiences working at Gamestop were mostly shitty. It was the typical ,horrible experience 9 out of 10 Gamestop employees dealt with (getting cut hours after the holidays, and then getting yelled at for not meeting an absurd amount of subs and reserves, typical GameStop shit, etc.). I worked at a place in a desolate strip mall mostly infested by the old people going to the mall's Rite Aid. The funny thing about experience was I never had any problems with the customers out of one manchild; the employees, however, were a different story:

When I left, I heard the assistant manager got fired when the district manager caught him trying to piledrive a kid he knew when they were joking around (He did this before, but I didn't give a shit because they didn't damage anything. No one got hurt).

I feel sorry for the current employees who have to watch those horrible GameStop commercials with the 30/40-something Jewish who is acting like a 20-something GAEMR with the chicks as his cohosts (you can tell the girls in those commercials don't give a fuck out of reading queue cards and getting a check).

If this was within the last few years, how sick did those audio ads they played in the store about how Gamestop "had everything a mobile gamer could want" make you as an employee? Because I found it disgusting when I went in looking for cheap DS games a few years back, only to find they'd trashed the cases and manuals and replaced the shelf space they'd once occupied with iCrap/android shit.

And that's one of the many reasons why i never had a PS1 library worth a damn growing up.

I worked there when mobile stuff was starting to come out (lol Ngage), so I dodged the bullet with that. There were a few demos I hated, but my boss mute the demos because even he got sick of them.

I'm not surprised to know they're worse with used shit even though it's not entirely their fault (customers not taking care of the games). The last thing I would ever do is buy a phone from them.

Pretty sure most brick and mortar stores do the old "paper sleeve in the locked filebin" method of disc/cart storage, provided it's not a game they have a fuckton of extra copies of where they can toss the whole thing instead to save on shelf space. The better stores though (generally not Gamestop) might have a disc buffing machine, so if you look at the discs you're getting and they don't look to be in the best condition, they'll clean it on the house since it's not like you scratched them up.

The most disgusting thing I found was the way various employees are more than happy to use the "it's the game you want, why does the case/cover/manual even matter?" logic to try to shill cart/disc only copies of shit on you, as if you should feel lucky they even have it cart only still in the first place.

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what is this mp4

I am still amazed by this video every time.

Locked bin? No, the discs were on THE SHOWROOM FLOOR. The only shit they had under lock and key was i think ps2 shit, certain n64 games, the consoles, and Game boy shit.

Might as well post a few stories. None of them are really recent or anything (and if a few seem copypasta'd, I've posted them before).

Pretty sure that copy of Coraline was jizzed on by a previous owner and the employees couldn't even be bothered to clean it.

Not sure if the bitch was just that desperate for sales, or figured the average person had as low of morals as her about tricking people into thinking you'd gone the extra mile to get them a new copy when it's clearly a store bicycle copy.

>Surprisingly enough though, a complete copy of Solatarobo for $15; had heard decent things about it before and the price seemed fine.
I get that people have different tastes in games/systems, but I'd think that not insulting the system a customer is giving your store money for would be given etiquette, be it true or not. Unless they were such a big sperg they couldn't wait until the customer leaves to shit on them.

Oh, you mean the paper sleeves they keep on racks at some points? I forgot Gamestop used to have some of those out in the open. Been a while since they've done that much for disc based systems (they still tended to keep PS3, 360, and Wii games together last I checked), so they've only been doing that for low value cart only DS games lately (the higher value ones wound up in a separate display cabinet). Still, I would be shocked if they didn't start doing that in the future when the 7th gen console games are being pushed out the door.

Discs were in locked shelves, but carts and ds stuff would be inside glass cases built within the register. Losing the case and manual weren't as big a deal as losing a rare N64 game.

They didn't have a choice, and most of the employees didn't give a fuck about video games.

What happens in it? My browser doesn't support mp4s

What you're saying is we need bullies?

It's probably your gamestop that is the problem, it's likely in a high sales area with high foot traffic and customers, right?

I have a gamestop in a backass area in the suburbs, and college students are employed there, and the employees are generally amiable.

When gamestop first came in, they were hyperfocused on sales like your second example, but after a few years, no one did that shit because they know it makes you lose customers, despite what the upper brass probably says.

I live in an area with plenty of repeat customers and families, so if they try that shit and push it on customers like that, they WILL lose loads of business.

If your gamestop is in a mall or an area that's in the middle of places of work and bars, you're likely to have cancerous employees due to the extra sales focus because their walk-ins aren't repeat members like a Gamestop in a grocery district that caters to the suburbs would be.

Generally, City businesses are flooded with cancer if they're retail or restaurant, with retail generally being worse. The better retail business locations tend to be in quieter places like that shopping district that has a grocery.

What episode of Drake & Josh is this?

thank you for reading my blog, make sure to share, follow and go fuck yourself
you faggots need to learn how to socially interact lmao

Basically faggot dances in front of his class, falls over, howls like a fucking baby about it.

It perfectly sums up kids these days, consequences are too much to handle.

FUCK YEAH JAY ST

watch it being overrun by normalfags
and know despair

Ah, fucking whatever. I'll just buy digitally or pirate when that happens.

The place I worked at was in a suburb, and it wound up getting some 30-something adults to work there; some of them were transferred from the mall and strip mall I mentioned because they couldn't find anybody.

They exist, but don't last long. Most of them leave for better things, or get sick of GameStop's shit. Very few people last at GameStop for over 1-5 years unless they're in corporate (Almost nobody gets into corporate from store positions).

nintendo is the least shit console vs the rest of them

sony and microsoft are complete shit, at least nintento is fun.

-100 good boy points for pokemon go though

Fucking gamestop.

It's because they're not willing to lie that they don't last long. Corporate attitude is: SELL PRODUCT. SELL PRODUCT. SELL PRODUCT.

Do you have to obscure a defect, or outright lie to sell the product? DO IT. Don't know? COME UP WITH THE ANSWER THE CUSTOMER WANTS TO HEAR HOWEVER YOU CAN.

I worked retail at several game retailers and the fact that I didn't just SELL PRODUCT and I made sure to tell people when a shit was a shit or if something was good and cost less, the company didn't like that, my "Your services are no longer" yadda yadda letter came after less than a year.

I'm glad that I don't work retail anymore, but yeah, selling product to people is not a rewarding job, because the attitude is, do whatever you can to make them buy.

Fuck off, CWC is shit and you know it.

shills and what they do on every board:

it's/they are on every board giving bad advice on purpose.

on all boards they tell everyone to "take your meds" to which everyone replies "bake your breads" or "we already took the red pill"

anyone who disagrees with them or calls them out on their bullshit gets a bunch of scripted SJW type replies like "oh you are just intolerant/uneducated/too young/too old/too stupid/ too this/ too that/ not good enough/"

anyone else notice this trend?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Threat_Research_Intelligence_Group
theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

You forgot where your mom tried to run him over with a car.

Honestly? Whenever I've had to go into one, they're rarely busy here, but maybe I'm just going at off hours or something. I suppose part of it is that there's so fucking many of them around here, so it's not as if a single one gets all the modern vidya related traffic.

Also, while technically a "city," the area I'm in is more a mix of suburban/rural. Not a lot of skyscrapers or anything aside from banks, and only one of the malls here sees much in the way of activity.

Vegans have been called fags and homos on /fit/ since fucking ever, there used to be weekly threads mocking the vegan gains guy

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Funny you mentioned about getting fired for doing your job. A mom was buying Conker's BFD for her 12 year-old kid, and when shit like that happens, you have to let them know about the rating and content (Almost every parent/grandparent said they knew about the games they're buying, so I never made a big deal about it). The mom was kinda pissed at the kid for trying to get it, holding up the line, but my manager yelled at me for holding up shitty trade-ins instead of, you know, doing my fucking job.

Meanwhile, I got some kind of stupid, meaningless stub about doing a good job about telling a customer about products he should avoid (anything made by Nyko). GameStop has double standards.

Why do you think they cut employee hours after the holidays, and stress them out with bullshit standards only 1 out of 5 employees can do inconsistently? Unless it's for a mainstream game, or the holidays, GameStops tend to be pretty quiet.

Ya'll should just jerk off to Marilyn Mobroe's topless photos like I do.

Fucking plebians.

In his defense, some of the DBZ games are fun when you don't take them seriously, and they don't suck.

In the past they used to be at least somewhat busy when there were fewer of them around, but over the years it's reached the point where they had at one point probably eight or nine locations within a five mile radius. It honestly strikes me that, within that distance, they don't need anywhere near that many locations, especially since the climates the sort where people are MUCH more apt to have access to transportation than walk/bike anywhere during the hours they're open.

The fact that Gamestops and EB Games are all licensed pawn shops and their biggest industry is used games has always left a sour taste in my mouth when thinking about the chain.

Sell game for $60, customer brings it back within a week, give them $50 credit, sell it for $55, they bring it back, give them 45, sell it for $50, they bring it back, give them 40, sell it for $45… etc.

I fucking can't stand that level of kikery. After buying a game that didn't even work, I won't even buy used games anymore. So fuck their used games bullshit.

Women with moles on their faces repulse me. I don't recognize Other M Samus as being the real Samus, just a new version of Samus a washed up hack is trying to sell me that I ignore.

Super Metroid Samus didn't have a mole, Metroid Prime Samus didn't have a mole. Fuck that "beauty mark" bullshit, it's a mole, I don't like it. Unblemished skin or fuck off.

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Every time I see Fred Savage in something, it makes me go "I forgot that guy is still alive." He fell off the face of the planet and sometimes he touches down for a movie cameo here or ther.

It doesn't make sense to have so many GameStops in one area nowadays. My area used to have 2 GameStops in one part of the county at first, but then they combined two stores into one. GameStop and Best Buy are starting to experience karma very slowly.

Businesses will buy your stuff dirt cheap to make a profit off of used stuff. Every store that isn't a cause-supporting thrift store, and buys stuff from customers does this (even thrift stores do this to stay alive). That's how businesses make profit from used goods like mechanics who will buy old parts from customers.

Not to say how GameStop does it is right or anything. The biggest offender for dealing with used stuff is Best Buy, but Best Buy is always shady and sleazy.

Weird night

another time

the cops blocked my parking spot during all this, it was strange as shit

I don't understand how going to a fucking store can be so hard for some people.

bump

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FUCKING

SILENCE

Not videogames.

Because customers and GameStop employees can be douche bags. I wouldn't call GameStop a quality store.

I work at one of the most popular and fastest growing classic game stores in New York. It's a lot of fun and we constantly get cool things in. Not necessarily rare things, although we do see some absolutely bizarre items like a Super Nintendo exercise bike attachment.

I mainly work in the back room as a technician and spend a lot of time cleaning and prettying up neglected games, systems and parts.

I have plenty of pictures to share if anyone is interested in seeing some of the things we get in. Feel free to ask any questions or advice too.

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If you know a friend who works there you can get them 10% off

What's the weirdest item you've seen?

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We were all having such a nice time until you posted your bullshit.

Fucking burst into laughter

no webm

browser cant watch

everyone always posts mp4

either post webm or someone tell the browser people to update their shit

Im butthurt

You dumb shit

Serial number checking probably

Do you have Battletoads?

Not as much bs but just annoying
To give you anons some background, my friend had been bugging me to get destiny on the xbox one since he needed another guy for raids or something.

I just wanted to buy the game so i could stop my friend form complaining. he had no empathis and sounded like a vacuum sales guy, he got under my skin.
**pic unrelated*

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got anymore?
or source?

My biggest mistake was reading your post while I was drinking… Nearly choked. Just the thought of some giggling idiot trying to slap your dick out of nowhere was too funny.

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wow smart try tips fedora

That's pretty gay.

Yeah, but typically they'll give you ~40% of what the item is actually worth/what they sell it for, if not more. Gamestop typically gives you pennies for anything that isn't a day one release, rare, or some kind of promotion

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yea?

Seriously fuck everything it's pure cancer now.

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I can't believe this story.

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Clean that shit up, you fucking pig.

fuck off you fucking EVIL FFFFFFFFFFFFFf

This happened when I bought my Xenoblade Chronicles (Ordered from another store)
Said fuck it since 40 maples is better than 80+. When it got to my store they found an extra case in the back, and everything was wonderful.
There was another time though when a friend of mine got the Halo 4 LE he preordered stolen by employees

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Why scare that poor ratto?

I dunno, ask the guy who made the video.

My local Gamestop has turned into that loot shit they're pushing now and it's god-awful. For a Gamestop, it used to be a pretty nice place. It felt like a game shop, and the staff there were rad. They still are.

Now, though, the shop is all fucking fake lino wood and grey and green and black. It is fucking awful, it's like Razer designed a store, and a solid 50% of the shop is nothing but shit "gamer loot" bullshit. Mugs, t-shirts, shitty pop figurines, a tonne of bullshit. Less than half of the store is dedicated to games any more, and it's depressing as fuck.

It was a bit of a hovel before, but that was its appeal. Now it's clean and has normalfag-tier l33t g4m3r design and siqqqqqqqq g4m3r l00t.

It's only a Gamestop, but still, you go to the only game shop in your area for 8 years and you start to miss it when it changes.

Fuck that loot shit.
Every gamestop I go to now is covered with it. They take up half the store space for no goddamn reason and I have never seen anyone buy anything from it.
They barely even sell PC games anymore. I mean, it was bad when they started buying used DVDs, but this is just ridiculous.

webm related about the good old times

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Switch browser you brand-loyal faggot.

same month the exodus happened and man that was some shit. Two homes being burnt down by tumblrite hipsters in one month.

Impressive

No seals allowed. Get the fuck out now.

It hurts.
One place I go to from time to time is very chill and is similar to the place you described, it's usually packed though. They have this age restriction, though, you're not allowed to go in after seven or eight on weekends if you're under 27. It's perfect, they're rolling in the dough, and keeps the secrit klub clean from entitled hipsterfucks.

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>Recommend it to my friends

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You sure are.

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got another gamestop story for you guys

>walk into FUCKING GAMESTOP with gf
"take this!" "oh that was a good one"
>I pick marth, he mains Grenigga
"GG! Thats the only time I've ever been beaten at this location"
gf pokes fun saying a found a fellow autist, I play it off like psshh it was nothing perssonel
/endblog

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Sounds like a delightful time
Gamestops sure are magical places

probably the SNES excertainment adapter. Otherwise here's a bunch of cool stuff you don't see very often.

Also, the wireless Atari controllers honestly had about as much input lag as modern wireless controllers.

for NES, Genesis, and also double dragon battle toads for SNES, Genesis and NES. Much more interestingly we got a copy of Sailor Moon S Jougai Rantou from someone the other day.

Where the fuck do you live?

There was a Talespin game? That's news to me.

Wish I had one of those Hori pads for playing older games on my Wii, or at least one of those third party SNES-to-Wii adaptors. Too bad the former's so expensive and the latter's discontinued.

It felt great trying it out. Played the Zelda Collectors Edition disc on the GC we have in the back, really nice pad. You may know this already, but Hori has been making Nintendo's controllers for them since the gamecube I believe.

I've unintentionally got a Gamestop employee to do a goatse demonstration in the store with his boss right beside him.

True story.

Huh, so they help make the official controllers these days?

Regardless, it's a shame they didn't officially bring the Hori ones west. I'd like to play more older stuff on my modded Wii, but the Gamecube controller's d-pad's really not the best and analog input isn't the most accurate for 2D games.

Yes, I believe they are part of the production side of things. Nintendo makes the plans, Hori makes sure the product doesn't suck.

Is Gamestop better these days or am I not autistic?

>Walk into Game
Gamestop sounds shit but game stores with lots of old preowned games are great.

The issue with Gamestop is that they tend to only stock for current gen and current gen -1, so it's not like you can walk into one and expect to pick up anything earlier than seventh gen at this point, and even then they're liable to start trying to move everything from then out in the next few years as eighth gen gets bigger.

Granted, I remember hearing that they were buying up older stuff again, but I'm not sure if anything came of it. They sure weren't devoting store space to older generations last I checked, and I would expect the only reason they opted to do start taking stuff back in would be to make scalper bucks off of people wanting games from "retro" generations.

You are correct
gamestop.com/browse/games?nav=16k-3-vintage,28-xu0,13ffff2418

Except corporate are the ones who set prices