A True Gamestop Story
Overheard at a Gamestop store last night:
Guy: I'm looking for a game.
Clerk: Do you remember the name?
Guy: No, but it was for the Xbox.
Clerk: Can you tell me more about it?
Guy: It was a first-person shooter. There was this one part where I ran through water.
Clerk: What else can you remember?
Guy: I wasn't very good at it. I couldn't get past the first level.
Clerk: I need a lot more to go on.
Guy: I rented it. It was awesome.
Clerk: OK, do you think you'd recognize a screen shot if you saw it?
Guy: Maybe.
Surprisingly, this did not end in violence, just the two wandering over to look at box covers. I assume at some point it was narrowed down between the Xbox 360 and the original Xbox, but I won't swear to it.
Comments
"Guy: It was a first-person shooter. There was this one part where I ran through water."
Bioshock?
Posted by: Anonymous | April 25, 2008 01:01 PM
I remember a few conversations like that when I worked for FuncoLand back in '97-'98.
Of course the best one was the kid that called looking for the Commodore 64 addon for the Nintendo 64.
Posted by: Joel Schmidt | April 25, 2008 04:51 PM
A first-person shooter for the Xbox? Gee, that narrows it down to something like 80% of the games on the platform. :-)
Posted by: Drew Thaler | April 28, 2008 08:57 AM