Massive amounts of suck, tales from the game store.

[karma_gypsy]

Just think of the good times ... those very rare ... very wonderful moments that life hands you on a silver platter, garnished with all the most wonderfullest of things


When a parent and child walk past a demo game, child begins to reach up and grab the controller and parent says "No!"

Child looks at parent with puppy dog eyes.

Parent raises a bewildered eyebrow and continues with, "you already have that game at home!"

I like parents like that, although we get them probably more often than you do.


I remember one time, my co-worker literally uplugged a gaming console just to separate the child from the console. The parent was just about pleading with the child, telling him it was time to go and she was going to leave him behind.

"In a minute!" the child kept saying. "I'm almost done with this level!" as he finished the level, he'd start another.

You could tell the parent was getting frustrated, but was probably too embarrassed to make a scene (although, hell, I would).

So, co-worker walked over to the console and simply yanked the cord. Child was broken from his mindless trance and obediently followed his mother out the store

... tsk, tsk ...

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

One time in Wally World, I happened to be playing on one of those interactive consoles with one of my friends who happened to be there as well, and got a little too carried away with it.

So my parents had me paged to the front of the store, like a lost child.

[Gurndigarn]

So how many people annoy the hell out of you, then tell you "You must have the Greatest Job In The World!!!!!"

[mischugenah]

a brand new sparkly boyfriend

Your new boyfriend is... *sparkly*?

You might want to check his teeth before you make out with him.

[Gravekeeper]

Your new boyfriend is... *sparkly*?

You might want to check his teeth before you make out with him.

If gaming has taught me anything its you can't get him sparkly unless you use the training leash to show him how to help the villagers rather then shit on their houses.. -.-

I think I'd harm a customer if I worked in a game store. My tolerance for later generations of "gamers" is very low.

[marty]

I think I'd harm a customer if I worked in a game store. My tolerance for later generations of "gamers" is very low.

For every nine year old that asks me if we have a grand theft auto game, I die a little inside. By that calculation, I should be completely dead, but for some reason my body refuses to die.

[RetailWorkhorse]

So...am I the only one who plays Guitar Hero on mute while I listen to Beethoven?

[Leopardmadcat]

For every nine year old that asks me if we have a grand theft auto game, I die a little inside. By that calculation, I should be completely dead, but for some reason my body refuses to die.

That's only your Soul dying; don't worry, when it's completely gone you'll feel much better!

[Samaliel]

So...am I the only one who plays Guitar Hero on mute while I listen to Beethoven?

While I can't confirm you're the only one, I can fairly assume that very few people do just that. I know I don't. Granted, I don't have a Playstation, much less Guitar Hero, but still... If I did buy a musical game, I'd try to enjoy the game's music... (In this regards, Audiosurf is awesome because I pick the music I want to play to !)

But headphones, or reasonable volume level, whatever happened to them, I do wonder ?

[RetailWorkhorse]

But headphones, or reasonable volume level, whatever happened to them, I do wonder ?

Actually, I don't own the game, I play it at a friend's house.

I actually bought some cord extenders to make my headphone cord over 25 feet long so I could play a CD ROM based game on my computer and listen to Manheim Steamroller without bother everyone (I play their music really loud).

[AriRashkae]

If gaming has taught me anything its you can't get him sparkly unless you use the training leash to show him how to help the villagers rather then shit on their houses.. -.-

My husband on the other hand... well, his tower was whispering evil things to him when he played.

Fortunately, our youngest spawn is well behaved (for his age), so the clerks think it's cute when he runs for the Wii or 360.

[PepperElf]

i remember seeing some of the guys at work playing guitar hero on break... but id rather see that then have them playing the fight games cos they bounce around more and tend to forget there are other people in the "office" (more like a lounge but we couldn't call it that).