Alight so, I generally try to avoid Gamestop in the first place. But the one in my town happens to be centred between TARGET, Panda Express, Starbucks, and a Liquor Store... practically a trap for a college student. Damn them and their clever arrangement of stores to target poor, hungry students.

Anyways, sometimes I’m in the vicinity and decide to wonder in and scan the wall for deals and usually don’t find anything that I don't have or could find cheaper elsewhere, so I circle round the store real quick taking a look around before leaving.



I’ve been in there enough to notice a trend. I walk in and the employees ignore me, not even a “Hi” or “Welcome to Gamestop”, which while kind of discourteous, I really don’t mind personally, if I had a question I would simply go up and ask.

However, should someone older than 30/40 walk in, particularly women and especially women with children in tow the employees jump off their ass like Jessica Alba walked in and asked them if they wanted to go back to her place for a good time.



These guys prey on these moms and try to get them to buy utter crap for their children. First, they ask a few quick questions and then proceed to go off on a tour de store. It’s terrible when you see the employee slide a copy of Carnival games, the latest Sonic the Hedgehog travesty or games based off movies into the hands of the unsuspecting parent and proceeds to sell it with a smile and a prefabricated speech to snatch the hard earned dollars out of the unwitting parent.

Evil. Pure. Evil.

Recently I remember an incident when this happened. An eleven year old kid came in with his mom trying to get Halo 3 but the mom had doubts and kept rattling on about violent video games. The employee “helped” and sold her on Jumper for the 360.

I stood there in the check-out line behind them thinking to myself “Jumper was a god awful movie. I mean, I torrented it but I still feel cheated out of my time. I can’t imagine how bad that game is.” as the kid walks away with a smile and a new 360 game.

Right after they walk out of the shop, I walk up to the register with a copy of Dead Rising: Chop Til You Drop in my hands and place it on the counter. The guy then has the nerve to give me a funny look and walk over to the XBOX 360 wall and give me a wave pointing at the original version of the game and merely said it was better and I should get that one because the one I was about to buy “sucked and wasn’t fun”.

I explained I wanted the Wii version. He asked why, the same motherf*cker that didn’t bother to say hi when I walked through the door now cares why I want one game over another. No fuck off.

“I have a Wii... not a 360.”
“Come on there bro, it’s time to graduate to the big leagues and get a –real- next gen console. They’re only $199.”

Now that I think of it it kind of reminds me of a Podtoid awhile back where one of the guys was trying to convince the other to get either a 360 or a PS3, when he had the other one. Like him, sure I'd love to get one but I can't afford it. [Actually I'd rather get a PS3]

“And I still want that one.”
“Aight bro dun say I didn’t warn ya.”

I probably would have left right there and bought it off Amazon if I didn’t have a gift voucher.

PS.
Oh and f you guy the game is fun. I was playing it an hour ago and I feel like a kid in a candy store...even if it isn’t HD.