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  • #1

    Gaming like its 1996

    So a few nights ago, I'm putting away items from our truck when I mosey over to the video game area. Needless to say, this far into the holiday season and the customers are like locusts.

    Really impedes the abillity for one to get any sort of work done. My interaction went something like this.

    M:Me
    C: Customer

    C: Excuse me, do you have the Nintendo 64.

    Me: *standing there for a few seconds, letting the question sink in. Did we travel back in time? Where's the Delorien?* Sir, that doesn't exist anymore?

    While not entirely true, it's not something that gets stocked this day and age in a new condition.

    C:No, the Nintendo....(obviously trying to search for the right name)
    Me:*fishing* DS? Wii?
    C: Yes
    Me: Sir, they're right there. (pointing to the the stack behind him)
    C: No, no, I mean the other thing?
    Me: I'm not sure I follow you.
    C: The other thing's you know

    Ah yes, the 'other things' which could be one of tens of thousands of items in this store. Let me just consult my encyclopedic knowledge of everything!

    Me: Sir, I have no idea what you're referring to.
    C: You know, the other systems.
    Me: *WHICH ONES?! DEAR GOD!* PS3? XBOX 360?
    C: Yeah, the Xbox kinect.

    Seriously? How did we go from 1996 to 2010 that quickly? Is there some time warp thing involved? Where's Arnold?

    Me: Sir we don't have any of those in stock at the moment.
    C: You don't?

    Deaf a little?

    Me: No, we don't
    C: Do you know when you'll get them in?
    Me: Can't say

    Honest, we don't know when we'll get stuff.

    And that was it, he walked away and I returned back to my work. But honestly, what rock have you been living under. Don't get me wrong, I miss gaming from the 90's as much as the next person, but how do you not realize what's in the present? More importantly, how do you confuse several systems.

    Perhaps its best just to accept it.
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    Man, you think people would've at least seen the commercials and weekly circulars to actually get the product name. I mean, what solar system do you have to be from to mistake an X360 with an N64?!
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    • #3
      One of my friends works at a big box electronics store and she says she constantly gets people who ask for "That gaming system on TV" as if she's supposed to know exactly which one they want. Of course even THEY don't know which one it is when she lists them.
      The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.

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      • #4
        People like me for whom looking at new things is so depressing, since one of them is more than my paychecks turn out to be, that it's better to ignore them until I have no choice.

        In other words, because I can't afford it and learned not to care, I'm out of the whole new technology game. I'm reliant exclusively on my P. C. I wouldn't know the difference between any of the X-boxes or what not.
        Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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        • #5
          Quoth solidmetalgear19 View Post
          C: The other thing's you know
          That's one thing that always annoyed the hell out of me, when they're vague like that, and follow it up with "You know."

          No, I don't know. I have no idea you're talking about!
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          • #6
            Quoth Kristev View Post
            People like me for whom looking at new things is so depressing, since one of them is more than my paychecks turn out to be, that it's better to ignore them until I have no choice.

            In other words, because I can't afford it and learned not to care, I'm out of the whole new technology game. I'm reliant exclusively on my P. C. I wouldn't know the difference between any of the X-boxes or what not.
            I don't either, but I have heard of the different kinds. I know an XBox is not the same thing as a Nintendo. Guess that guy really had a brain burp!
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            • #7
              I know my dad used to refer to every game system as a Nintendo, just as many many people refer to all tissues as Kleenex and all photocopiers as Xeroxes (fun factoid: Xerox, in particular, spends untold amounts of money every year buying ads trying to *discourage* this practice)
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              • #8
                Thing is, the Nintendo Wii allows you to download old games onto it so you can play them, and I wouldn't be the list bit surprised if Xbox 360 and PS3 do the same. On a funny side note, I love alot of the old video games, and before the Wii came out, I wished I could travel back in time to the mid 1980s and buy an old Nintendo just so I 'd have a system that works so I could play the old games.
                I love technology

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                • #9
                  Yes I want a PS3 because I can get online and play Final Fantasy VII again. Yeah it may be an older game, but it is one of my favorites of all times.
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                  • #10
                    Wow, how do you get Nintendo 64 from Xbox Kinect?

                    My biggest pet peeve when I worked in electronics during the holidays was when people would ask me where the "Wii games" were. I would tell them that there were a bunch the next aisle over. Then they would come back and say they couldn't find any Turns out they'd be looking for the Wii console, which we couldn't keep in stock longer than a day or two. But I've never had someone ask for a completely different brand of system than they were looking for that was a decade old.

                    Speaking of old systems - my husband and I both still have our NESs from when we were kids, and they both still work They're stashed at a house his parents own, along with his SNES, Dreamcast, N64, Gamecube, both of our PS1s, and his PS2. We call that place the graveyard for outdated electronics
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                    • #11
                      I don't keep up with new technology either, but if someone tells me they want a certain electronic something-or-other, I write it down so I don't waste the store employees' time when I go to find it. This year the Husband wants a certain kind of MP3 player, so I had him e-mail the page from Amazon with all the info so I can take it to the store and get the exact one he wants without too mush hassle.
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                      • #12
                        Don't feel bad. At the games store we still get the occasional person who comes in looking for an NES.
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                        • #13
                          Quoth solidmetalgear19 View Post
                          Seriously? How did we go from 1996 to 2010 that quickly? Is there some time warp thing involved? Where's Arnold?
                          I tried very very hard, honestly I did but...

                          GET TOO DE CHOPPA!!! GET OUUUT ITS GOING TOO BLOW!!!!!

                          On topic - The Kinect looks fun but looks NOTHING like a N64 (I mean, its not even the same fricken size. Are those fricken sharks with fricken lasers attached to their heads?)
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                          • #14
                            Quoth ApolloSZ View Post
                            I tried very very hard, honestly I did but...

                            GET TOO DE CHOPPA!!! GET OUUUT ITS GOING TOO BLOW!!!!!

                            On topic - The Kinect looks fun but looks NOTHING like a N64 (I mean, its not even the same fricken size. Are those fricken sharks with fricken lasers attached to their heads?)
                            I now have this stuck in my head. >.>
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                            • #15
                              Quoth MadMike View Post
                              That's one thing that always annoyed the hell out of me, when they're vague like that, and follow it up with "You know."

                              No, I don't know. I have no idea you're talking about!
                              Ohhh dear GAWD do I hate when people do that! I do tech support, not decoding and reading your feeble mind for whatever you're looking for! It's called communication, use it wisely!!!
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