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Posted: Feb 25 2013 08:27 pm

When I was a young boy of 8 years old, my Dad took me to Wal-Mart to buy a video game for the NES, it being the only console we owned at that time. I was very naive, and after playing Bad Dudes I always assumed that any game with the word 'dude' in the title would automatically be cool. So as I was searching for a game behind the counter my eyes happened upon a game called Dudes With Attitude. Excited, I began jumping up and down exclaiming to my father that this was the game I must have. So he paid for it, and finally we get back home and I got to find out that what we bought was actually a pile of shit in the form of an NES cartridge. Even though it wasn't shaped like most NES games I thought that might be a good thing. I was very wrong.

I've heard this is a very obscure game so I must have been one extremely unlucky child. I was curious, has anyone else had an experience similar to this?

On the flip side of that, two weeks later I got Mega Man 2, which became and still is my favorite Mega Man game of all time.

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

The only time I ever bought a game at Wal-Mart was one of the most intensely uncomfortable moments of my life. I picked up Gears of War 2 on release day, but apparently they'd had a midnight launch where each person got some lanyard and a bottle opener. I don't know if it was store policy or not, but I guess the employees might have been required to put the lanyard around your neck for you.

Due to years of bullying and typically WASP shaming of anything enjoyable, I have kind of a weird embarrassment of being a gamer. I rarely talk about it in public, and I don't like it to be known around older generations. This does not help when I'm being knighted "Sir GoW2" at the State College Wal-Mart by a kindly elderly woman. Instead of, just, say handing it to me, this poor 70 year-old woman a foot shorter than me tried to reach over my head to put it on me in a daylight Wal-Mart with people all around me at the register. I insisted on just taking it in my hand, but she insisted otherwise. I've never gone back to Wal-Mart for a game ever.

Then there was the time where I almost started a riot at a Gamestop over their shit return policy, and their employees' refusal to even follow it.

Posted: Feb 25 2013 09:00 pm

I tried to buy Fire Emblem Awakening and it turns out that none of the GameStops in the area even had it (their website kept getting bad connections when I'd try to check store availability). I wound up having to place a shipping order from the store and I'll hopefully have the game later this week.

Posted: Feb 25 2013 09:39 pm

I bought RE5, owned it for less than 2 hours, and sold it to Gamestop for a fraction of the price. Would be nice if stores would let you return games you hate but all of them are so afraid you burned it that they won't let you, they'll only exchange it for the same game.

Also with Gamestop, I preordered Skyrim. We have 4 to 6 of them in town at this point I think, three of them within a mile and a half of each other. Well since this was the case and the mall was under renovation, they decided to leave the mall store closed for the midnight release and move all the preorders from that store over to the one by the oldest Wal-Mart. They of course never said anything about the mall being closed when I ordered it, didn't find out until I called that same day to find when they were reopening the mall so I could be one of the first in line. So I show up, there are two lines and a single Gamestop employee telling people which line to get into based on where they ordered.

Stood there for about an hour waiting for midnight, and it passes with nobody being allowed in the store yet. 15 minutes later the lone Gamestop employee walks his ass outside where we are all freezing because it is fucking November to tell us he can't give us copies because his manager isn't there with the lists of who ordered from the mall but the people who ordered at this one can go ahead and start coming in. when asked when his manager was going to get there he had no idea because he couldn't get ahold of the guy. Ended up buying the game at Wal-Mart since I was right there anyway. Went in a few days later to Gamestop to complain and get my money back and they'd lost my order somehow. Thank god I only put a five down on it because if it had been the full 60 I'd probably be in jail for assault right now. Haven't shopped at Gamestop since.

Posted: Feb 25 2013 11:46 pm

Admittedly, the later levels of Dudes With Attitude become impossibly hard, but I don't see why people hate it so much. At least the earlier levels are fun! Though I'm probably in the minority; when me and CB hung out the most enthusiasm he could conjure up while we were playing it was a polite "huh". Razz

In regards to gaming shopping experiences, really the only negative ones I've ever had were instances in which the game either didn't work (which has only happened once, when I bought a NES game called Mutant Virus which I've still never actually played) or the save battery was dead (which has happened with purchased copies of Phantasy Star III and Ultima VI).

Joined: Oct 19 2009 Location: Nashville, TN Posts: 1479

Beach Bum wrote:

I bought RE5, owned it for less than 2 hours, and sold it to Gamestop for a fraction of the price.

For fear of this, when I was a child, my parents always made me rent a game before I was allowed to buy it.

Posted: Feb 26 2013 01:19 am

LeshLush wrote:

Beach Bum wrote:

I bought RE5, owned it for less than 2 hours, and sold it to Gamestop for a fraction of the price.

For fear of this, when I was a child, my parents always made me rent a game before I was allowed to buy it.

Yeah I used to rent all the time, but prices have gotten so high on game rentals that you can drop like 1/7 of the price of the game or more just to rent it long enough to know if you want to buy it these days.

Posted: Feb 27 2013 05:41 pm

Cam, I agree there is prob some fun to be had with DWA but it was just so completely wasn't what I expected. I wanted Dudes With Attitude to be more about action than puzzle solving, but I was young and dumb and just seen the title and went apeshit for the game. When I would have a friend over to see if two players had any fun to be had we played for around 5 minutes then popped in River City Ransom.

Joined: Aug 28 2011 Posts: 537

I remember trying buy Pokémon from GameStop in my teens and the store employee making fun of me wanting to buy it. Kinda cool now that I think about the whole reason he's employed is to sell games.

I remember buying Pikmin used from GameStop only to have to immediately return it because it had broken jolly ranchers and the disc was scratched up. They tried to pull some shit on me asking me to show them a driver's license for a game I literally only had in my possession for 2 minutes. I got my game back. Ass clowns.

Posted: Feb 27 2013 07:53 pm

My buddy bought Killer Instinct Gold used at Funco Land. It took three tries. The third time, the store employee was smart enough to test it on the store N64 before letting us leave the store with it.

Posted: Feb 28 2013 02:43 am

Not sure if there any Halo fans out there, but a few years ago I bought a map pack off of Xbox Live for what I believe was Halo 3, but no matter how many times I tried downloading it just wouldn't work. They refused my refund so I was adamant about getting to play this content I had already paid for. So I turned to Microsoft's ever so helpful tech support. Turned out the were all shit flingers who ran me around in circles until I just became too exhausted to deal with it. Eventually they worked it out but it took a few days and what's worse is the contant I bought wasn't worth all the effort.

Posted: Feb 28 2013 06:28 am

Neverwinter Nights 2 Collector's Edition pre-order from Gamestop.

I had fully paid for a pre-order of NWN2 Limited Collector's Edition. And, not just like a few days before. I mean like the day the collector's edition was anounced. I go in the day it came out, and they tell me that they didn't get any copies of the collector's edition, only the normal one. They called around to a few other local stores and found out that the other stores got a few copies in, but not enough to fill their pre-orders, so they wouldn't hold one for me. I asked if they give priority to those who pre-pay the whole ammount over those only only plop down five bucks. They said no, they didn't.

They offered me the base game, with a refund in the difference in price. I refused, and told them, I would wait until they get the CE versions in. They say that they would call me when they did. A week or so later, I haven't heard anything so I go back in the store and inquire. They said they never got any and that all CE versions are gone. There are no more shipping.

I asked for my money back, and have never pre-ordered anything from a Gamestop ever since.

Posted: Mar 18 2013 02:30 am

Judging by all these horror stories about Gamestop, I'm sure glad I left that place for dead a long time ago.

Whenever I would try to sell a used game, they would always refuse to buy it if the disk had even one little scratch on it (and I do take care of my games), but whenever THEY would sell me a game, they would always sell me a shitty copy laden with scratches.

Which makes me wonder... If they refuse even minimally scratched disks, then how is it possible for them to have scratched-to-shit copies in their inventory to sell them to customers?

Then again, it's been years since I've shopped at Gamestop; I dunno what their policies are now.

Posted: Mar 18 2013 11:31 am

I must have the best luck with GameStop because I have had only one negative experience with it, and that's when I didn't get the stupid hat for pre-ordering Scribblenauts. Otherwise, the ones in Virginia Beach always treat me right.

Posted: Mar 18 2013 12:00 pm

I chose Q-bert instead of Metroid, I lose.

Joined: Mar 13 2009 Location: Arlington Posts: 467

When I was 14 or so, I started getting into the Beatles. I went to the local record shop(House of Guitars in Rochester, NY) and wanted to pick up my first Beatles CD, but didn't know what to get, so I decided to go with a greatest hits album. I found a few like the red and blue albums, past masters, etc, then I found this awesome one that had almost every song I recognized. I Ran up to the counter and paid for it. Got home, put it into the CD player and.....a fucking synth and some douche singing "Please Please Me". This is what I bought:

http://www.amazon.com/Please-Me-Medley/dp/B001LRADSU

It took almost 10 years for me to try and listen to the Beatles again. I was so pissed because it took my a long time to save up enough to buy this piece of crap. I still think that fucker at the cash register should have tried and stop this purchase or at least recommend something else.