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A discussion of the recent rash of counterfeit games being sold form GameStop, including DuckTales 2 and Conker's Bad Fur Day.
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@prophismusic 8 лет назад

I wonder if they're interested in my blue Majora's Mask cart . .

@hfrox1 8 лет назад

+Prophis lol they will take it without question

@prophismusic 8 лет назад

@SeekerLancer 8 лет назад

+Prophis Special rare prototype edition.

@hfrox1 8 лет назад

lol

@prophismusic 8 лет назад

+Drew Munson Rare Zora's Domain edition

@KaoruMzk 8 лет назад

Make Gamestop's retro fuck up of the week a thing please

@Basha003172 8 лет назад

+Karl Schweinfurth I second this statement wholeheartedly, i love those games tores stories

@MrCrossa 8 лет назад

+Karl Schweinfurth Depends on how frequently they happen. Maybe a compilation? I only hear about this stuff through Pat's channel, so I have no idea how often these fuckups happen.

@PSUDarius2032 8 лет назад

+Karl Schweinfurth AGREE!!! AND IAN's tales of rude customers!!! LIL BITCH!!!!!!!!!! LOL

@PSUDarius2032 8 лет назад

^ Must be a Gamestop employee.

@TheGrowlerCatB2BGame 8 лет назад

+Miguel Waide 100% agree. Also I wonder how many people Ian has ripped off in the past because of the traders limited knowledge on games. They both sound like two whiny bitches sitting around a table sipping coffee and gossiping.

@DreamcastGuy 8 лет назад

This is the problem when modern stores try and invade the retro market. They just DO NOT have the expertise for it. I feel bad for all the fans who are getting ripped off.

@FlintG 8 лет назад

+Vote4BlackJesus Oh yeah I agree.

@EmilyRose900 8 лет назад

Hey Jesus, why don't you try walking on water in the middle of the pacific? What a piece of shit you are in all contexts! Fucking shill of a god.

@thevigilantsatanicbowser8249 8 лет назад

***** I believe he is. He's so mad he lashes out on a joke SN.

@dop3seasonedgamers376 8 лет назад

RIGHT ON

@fieldsisabust 7 лет назад

DreamcastGuy i agree with you but people should stop buying from them its just too risky

@AyyDraws 8 лет назад

Oh god, even pat's pissed... This is serious.

@r0ckbass 8 лет назад

+skinny720 5:06, even the headphones got rustled off his head!

@MoejiiOsmanTV 7 лет назад

skinny720 ahahah headphones looked like they were Goin to explode

@jacobsteele7138 5 лет назад

Couple of couch fairies. Just play the dam game.

@MacMarshall17 8 лет назад

Game Stop's motto shouldn't be "Power to the player" it should be "More money for us."

@smashbrospippop1931 8 лет назад

I agree

@solarstrike33 7 лет назад

What about "Power to the Corporate"?

@MrCrossa 8 лет назад

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if their retro trade in program gets thrown out. Also, who the fuck goes to gamestop for old games? I go to my local game shops or online places like ebay and amazon for old games. Gamestop I save for used console games (i.e. Wii U or PS3) that I don't feel like ordering/waiting for online, amiibo or Steam cards.

@MrCrossa 8 лет назад

***** I've seen pics of retro games in-store. None of the ones near me do that though.

@ladynikkie 8 лет назад

Couldn't agree more. I never trust GS with their retro sales. I just go to my local Game Xchange.

@MrCrossa 8 лет назад

+ladynikkie It's not that I don't trust them (actually now I don't after watching all these podcasts) but regardless, it just seems like I'd get a much better deal at local game shops (even though one of them for a while put on price tags that ruin the CAUTION labels on the back of NES and SNES games) Point is, it just seems like local game stores and other online shops have overall better deals in comparison. Got a boxed copy of metroid for $30 (no manual but it did come with old hand written notes)

@manixpc 8 лет назад

Makes you wonder, what would happen to all of those carts in their warehouse IF/WHEN they do decide to end the program. I really hope they don't do the same thing that their stores would do, which is trash them.

@bayouboyentertainment2106 8 лет назад

+manixpc there's dumpster dives on youtube already where Gamestop has been throwing out NES and N64 boxes and manuals so it wouldn't surprise me if they scrap the program that they'd junk the games also

@ItsNep 8 лет назад

"Bootlegs n' Bullshit". Sounds like a pretty interesting game.

@imbisoul 8 лет назад

man i hate gamestop. they toss out all the cases for used DS games. i mean WTF!!!!

@cookieskoon2028 6 лет назад

Even worse, they destroy the boxes and manuals to used cartridge games of any console! Imagine a complete in box Chrono Trigger going to Gamestop... ;-;

@subzero8679 5 лет назад

Gamestop needs to be shut the fuck down

@markuscone 8 лет назад

After just spending my hard earned money at a local game store who took the time to buff my discs AND show me how to properly clean (yes I was worried about cleaning with alcohol) all of the NES carts I bought seeing stuff like this makes me so sad for those individuals who got shafted. Plus, GameStop's lack of care/feigned ability to do nothing is hardly any kind of consolation. Like you and Ian have said there is clearly a disassociation with GameStop not realizing they have entered a collector market with a commercial market mentality. Trust a LOCAL retro store to do it better, seriously, I don't know why anyone would have 'faith' in GameStop enough to try again or risk trying to get a retro game from them at all given what has happened.

@dart2527 7 лет назад

A good retro shop is usually the places not many people have ever really heard of. Places that aren't gigantic branches, and usually the places you see the same 3 people behind the counter every time you step in.

@solarstrike33 7 лет назад

Good thing I have one of them nearby my area.

@Chowder908 8 лет назад

it should be required by the employee to make sure the game boots up and is the game that the label shows in the store. It's not fucking rocket science Gamestop to put a cart in a console and press power switch.

@SeekerLancer 8 лет назад

+LGG Chowder908 I didn't expect them to catch every reproduction but the fact that they're not even making sure the games work is worse than even the worst case scenario I imagined for their quality control.

@dustman_b6245 8 лет назад

+Christopher Blair That and ones that actually say "reproduction" right on the label

@ObsessedCollector 8 лет назад

+LGG Chowder908 Not to mention most of the repros have lightly FUZZY labels. Very easy to detect.

@EmilyRose900 8 лет назад

Nothing wrong with repros as long as the price reflected it as such like $5.

@Femaiden 8 лет назад

all i know is that every time I ever traded in a game to gamestop, they always tested it first, they had all the systems against the back wall behind their register and checked the games. and they always also took my personal info, my name and address before giving me my trade in value.

@sweetfeathery 8 лет назад

Same company that knowingly sold RROD 360 consoles.

@sweetfeathery 8 лет назад

+Jason Nesbitt (Frankybarrelass) These were original Xbox 360 consoles that had the famous Red Ring of Death. I use to work there, and was told to simply apply a "refurbish fee" if the console being sold to us did not work properly. These consoles would be sent to a repair shop in Grapevine Texas, where they would be "tested and guaranteed to work" which was never the case.

@MrCrossa 8 лет назад

+Bobby A And they wonder why most people hate them (that + the subject in the video and them opening copies of Xenoblade Chronicles to sell it used for $90) and wonder why they're going to become irrelevant in a few years if they keep this shit up. I like the people at my local gamestops, but let's be real here, I don't like the company itself a whole lot with controversies like those.

@sweetfeathery 8 лет назад

MrCrossa Xenoblade was not the only game they did that with. When I was working there, we got in "used" copies of Fatal Frame, Nocturne, Shin Megami Tensei, and some other Atlus games that were simply ripped open with a refurb sticker covering the barcode.

@MrCrossa 8 лет назад

Bobby A Really? Shit. No surprise there.

@sweetfeathery 8 лет назад

MrCrossa Think I even recall Marvel vs Capcom 2 and Silent Hill 2 being some of those games. When I worked there it was way before everyone had smartphones and facebook was just starting to be a thing, which is why I don't think you heard much about it. What was crazy about the time I worked there is that we had TONS of overstock GameCube games and other accessories that are now worth quite the penny.

@ootwii 8 лет назад

FRIENDS DONT LET FRIENDS SHOP AT GAMESTOP......

@johnandbrianversus5082 8 лет назад

Pat is fired up.

@j4rp13bot4 8 лет назад

This is trickle-down corporate greed. Store managers would rather sell fake stuff and get credit for the sale. Yielding better sales numbers while taking a chance that the items aren't returned. The high value of this cart lends credence to the theory that Gamestop knew it was fake.

@1234573332 8 лет назад

At this point I am no longer surprised gamestop is fucking up this bad with their retro stuff, these retro carts are a joke when they are not even properly checked, there is documentation proving they said they check them for repro's and etc, yet here we are again, FFS someone fucking phone the BBB on them, the Business Bureau who handles these kinds of lying jerks, present this case to them and let's see what happens to their lying asses again, we've seen story after story of gamestop mismanaging shit, treating their employees like shit, etc, it's time someone fucking spoke up bout this and presented the case.

@xsilentbulletsx 8 лет назад

+Chris Butler the BBB is just a review service they have no actual power lmfao.

@1234573332 8 лет назад

That's dumb, well whoever has to be called bout this shit, this is just stupidity

@RyanMartinez 8 лет назад

+Chris Butler Federal Trade Commission?

@1234573332 8 лет назад

Someone like that, hopefully some commission is called bout this

@RyanMartinez 8 лет назад

BeLikeWater1000 To people using "LMFAO": "You keep using that acronym, I do not think it means what you think it means."

@quiet451 8 лет назад

I don't know where they got the footage of the facility where the games are cleaned and tested, because as far as I'm concerned it doesn't exist. I ordered a few NES games just to see what I would get. They were cheaper games, so they were all real, but they were all FILTHY inside and out. The labels were damaged and one of them had a molasses like grime on the pins. That initial "article/video" of the cleaning facility was obvious propaganda.

@raginmadmangonecrazy 8 лет назад

That red conker cart is hilarious, I'd almost want to try and make the shittiest and most obvious fake ever and see if it gets past them. At this point I would half expect them to accept a blue majoras mask with labels made on a shitty home printer with the face label on the back of the cartridge. Gamestop is fucking clueless.

@wayge 8 лет назад

idk how that dude traded it in with a straight face

@Gulyus 8 лет назад

Employee of Gamestop here... I'm not allowed to say much anything as an employee actually. I didn't get any "retro training" though. Can also confirm that very few employees care. Told someone a DS cart was fake by looking at it...he just sorta shrugged. Course that was my old manager who would do or sell anything to make himself look better... sigh

@Kinaldio 8 лет назад

"You can return it" that's some great product confidence right there

@AnalogX64 8 лет назад

Support your local retro game shop's who is run by passionate retro gamers. Just minutes from where I work there is Toyratt in Milton, Ontario. You can tell they are passionate and the prices are reasonable. Gamestop is just a corporation out to make a profit.

@vhcmwashere 8 лет назад

Check out AdamKoralik on youtube. He has talked about that store many times.

@bayouboyentertainment2106 8 лет назад

+AnalogX64 Sadly our local Retro store is part of a small chain that is horrible, I think I hate game stores in general now last Retro store I went to never had any good games because when they came in the employees had first dibs which hey perks of the job cool but how do you ever expect anyone to be interested in buying anything when nothing good hits the shelves.

@NoumenalSoup 8 лет назад

+AnalogX64 CORPORATIONS OH NOES!!! LLCs AND PARTNERSHIPS ARE BETTER BECAUSE REAAAAAAASONS! ALSO LOCAL GAME SHOPS DON'T WANT TO MAKE PROFIT [citation strongly needed]

@MusicTheater81 8 лет назад

If I ever go to the US, I'm going to a GameStop to sell my copy of Stadium Events lol

@dankinator3249 8 лет назад

I guess you can say its a reproDUCKtion cart

@kylewaid3644 8 лет назад

I heard from a gamestop employee that when people trade in certain console games with the box, that their policy is to throw the boxes in the trash.

@Stuffgamer1 8 лет назад

I worked at GameStop from 2007-2010...lost track of how many OBVIOUS GBA bootlegs I found just sitting in our display case 'cause my coworkers didn't have the sense to refuse them. Okay, some of them were probably shipped from other stores, but still...company at large couldn't even handle THAT, let alone this. I found a copy of Pokemon FireRed in a black cart. HELLO! RED FLAG HERE! I found a copy of Yoshi's Island (SMA3) with a non-standard label...booted it up. Thing started with a message something to the effect of F*** The Man, bragging about being a bootleg. Oh yeah, we wanna sell this to some unsuspecting parent. The thing is, it shouldn't even require TRAINING to figure this crap out. Most of it is OBVIOUS if you're into games to any decent degree. This is just straight-up negligence, pure and simple.

@Godlike_Virus 6 лет назад

There's no such thing as common sense in this generation anymore.

@ctg8563 5 лет назад

it's probably not the people who inspect them but the higher ups of those people who don't care.

@dancairns318 8 лет назад

5:07 The Pat was angry that day my friends. Like an old Frank trying to send back soup in a deli.

@krayziejones 8 лет назад

Nice reference, made me laugh.

@SeekerLancer 8 лет назад

They're doing a bang-up job testing these games!

@SuperCrippledGamer 8 лет назад

+Christopher Blair *said nobody ever

@bmhedgehog2 8 лет назад

If ignorance is bliss then GameStop is fucking ORGASMIC!

@omikronweapon 8 лет назад

A side note. Never forget that stuff like this runs on supply and demand. We as a retro community ASK for these schemes, indirectly. For me, it mirrors how huge bullshit-DLC has become. If we don't buy it, they won't sell it. Also, don't overestimate the interest of employees. Just because they accepted the game doesn't mean they didn't see the word "REPRO"on there. Kicking up a lot of stink with a customer, possibly having to involve the manager, might not be worth the hassle to them.

@Blandco 8 лет назад

I had a conversation with someone on the Dreamcast Facebook fan group who said Gamestop was "Preserving" games with this program. For some reason they kept sticking up for this corporation with a terrible track record. I have had friends who got nonfunctional games. The video GS put up about this program is BS. Simply BS.

@GoobNoob 8 лет назад

Conkers bad fur day with a red cart got me! LOL!!!

@SupraViperhead 8 лет назад

NBA Jam 2000, NFL Quarterback Club '01, Spider-Man and Rocket: Robot on Wheels were also Red Carts. I don't think Gamestop realizes the Retro Game market. These aren't people that are just out to play some classic games, about 80% of them are collectors. Someone may have had a Conker's with a broken cartridge and decided to put the board in a new one, but only had Red ones, so they put it in that. The labels easily come off with a hair dryer, so they're not hard to switch. I had a copy of NFL QB Club '01 (Red), Madden 2001 (Blue) and Superman. I took the carts apart, took the labels off and made a Superman 64 game with a Blue back and a Red front. I gave it to my brother-in-law who is a huge Superman fan. GameStop thinks people just want to play Classic Games, they don't care if it's in it's original case or not because it doesn't affect the gameplay. But I'd say about 80% of the market belongs to collectors. The DuckTales 2 fiasco is complete Bullshit.

@MrRobbyRetro 8 лет назад

What really blows my mind is the fact that Gamestop sold retro games with NO problems for years!!! Its obvious someone new took over a few years back and he/or she most likely has no knowledge of video games at all.

@Megasan3 8 лет назад

This is why gamestop should hire people like me who knows there shit. Years ago when i use to care about gamestops i tried and tried and tried to get a job at gamestops here. I never got an interview. I talked to one manger and he told me they would never hire me because i knew to much. because i KNEW TO MUCH. That was a slap in the face. then you see things like this happen. I haven't even step inside a gamestop since 2010. i can't stand gamestop for so many reasons and this is another reason why i won't ever deal with gamestop ever again. I go to a local gaming store here that i just love to death that is retro and new stuff.

@Femaiden 8 лет назад

according to the website i went to, ducktales 2 is worth $150 used, and over $700 if you managed to get your hands on a new one...if only i knew back in the 90's that nes games would be worth so much today...

@NotWatching666999 8 лет назад

You should apply at game stop. Become a supervisor at the factory where they are cleaning and shipping everything. You can then help make training material.

@Dargonhuman 8 лет назад

+NotWatching666999 You're assuming that GameStop *wants* to fix this problem, though. But why would they? They've built their retro trade-in system to favor themselves in case a customer is unsatisfied with the service, and they're making all the money thanks to the built-in loopholes.

@rogersherman3546 8 лет назад

Unfortunately I live in an area with no other game stores so I hope eventually Game stop starts to just sell the stuff in all their stores so you can see it in person before you buy.

@calereliya 8 лет назад

Sounds like they would be interested in my absolutely 100% totally legit California Raisins: The Grape Escape NES cart.

@BuccaneerBruce 8 лет назад

I work for a small store here that deals in used games. We test the shit right in the store in front of the customer. We are trained to look for repro's and fakes.

@WesleyWhiteside 7 лет назад

Funny part is GameStop used to sell NES games back in the day. Not sure why they'd through out any information with years of experience.

@AylisCrescent 8 лет назад

Speaking for myself as someone who just wants to play these games and I'm not really interested in the collection part of it. These horror stories are the reason sole reason I wished companies would more open up to emulation to let us play these games without fear of getting ripped off on fake and bogus carts in a second hand market ; ;

@Pozorrogo 8 лет назад

Hey Gamestop I have some advice for you. If you dont want to take the time to test or clean games then start making or printing stickers to put on each cartridge that can be scanned and traced back to the store/individual who brought the game in to begin with. If you can trace back who brought in that particular DuckTales 2 game and slap some charges on the people who do shit like that then it will prevent people from selling you fake games. YES! A .001 cent sticker can solve all of these fucking problems for everyone!

@Jebus11211 8 лет назад

I'm thinking at this point it has to be someone at the warehouse stealing the high prices games and switching them for fakes, so they can sell else. There's no way that so many mistakes can for through the gaps this many times.

@Wexter0083 8 лет назад

Love my local retro store Geno Games, the owner tells me up front if the game is a repo or not (case or otherwise) and for the most part, knows his shit and tests it before it goes on shelves to be sold. My question is how can a startup who has been in business for hardly a year be able to supply fantastic service and be knowledgeable about his product, yet a multi-million dollar business not? I just hope this service does not come up to Canada cause EB does not need this shit shoved on them if the US branch (Gamestop) cannot even get it right.

@Napalmburns 8 лет назад

What chocks me the most is that people STILL support Gamestop and buy games there!

@ferarias1up 8 лет назад

Why hasn't a class action lawsuit started by this point. Clearly they would have to settle. All evidence shows deceptive business practices on the part of the gamestop.

@pjbrown4736 8 лет назад

They're risking a class action suit. They have fucked this up spectacularly.

@RobbieT015 7 лет назад

I have a Ducktales 2 somewhere at moms home probberly way back in the basement

@Tommylop1982 8 лет назад

Never thought I would see people faking game cartridges due to collect ability of said game.

@derpydashdjblazekin 8 лет назад

I can't believe I actually want to work for this place Gamestop is a disgrace

@jamesludolph8595 8 лет назад

Went and bought a copy of Super Mario World at a retro store 2 hours away. Got all the way home... it was a "Charles Barkley's Shut up and Jam" chipset inside instead... sigh..

@alexmammoth2916 8 лет назад

Pat's legit rage fills me with joy.

@theotakux5959 8 лет назад

The only time I defend Gamestop, I specify I mean the employees at my local Gamestop, as they actually know what they're doing. I don't defend the company, I defend the locals.

@aljr357 8 лет назад

I'm so glad there are no GameStop stores in my city I'd go postal if I spent a couple hundred dollars on a game for my collection and it turned out to be fake.

@razorjake 8 лет назад

Half the time when I go into Gamestop, I ask, is this game good? They say, I don't know, I just work here.... -_- I expect that kind of statement from WALMART, but GAMESTOP???? Then WHY THE FUCK do you work at a GAME STORE, I just want to ask them. Not to mention, I've tried to apply there in the past, I know my games/retro/EVERYTHING there is to know and they won't hire me. O.O Maybe they like the dumbasses. Perhaps thar be a conspiracy going on..... the one here in my town ain't so bad. but still..... *sigh*

@Lastseengaming 8 лет назад

You dont need to know anything, you need to be attractive or good at lickin ass. The worst is that constant shit about game protection and now they spew out a ton of lies about dlc too just to try and sell some season pass or some shit saying its a good deal

@razorjake 8 лет назад

very true and sad at the same time. I work at an office supply store and the tablets we had for black friday were CRAP, behind on specs/tech, ect. but, yeah, there's alot of crap product that people get sucked into. I try to get the customers something that will LAST and is up to date. XD

@phatmanxxxl 8 лет назад

I sell tires at Walmart, I don't know how well every tire rides that they sell or how long they'll last on your vehicle. I wouldn't expect the cashier at GameStop to know every game you ask about its worth playing or not.

@Lastseengaming 8 лет назад

razorjake thats good man, lots of people dont know shit about tech and end up with shit that breaks before next black friday lol

@Dargonhuman 8 лет назад

+Lastseengaming Well, their first problem is buying the inferior Black Friday crap that's 55% off.

@dtrainpructionz 8 лет назад

I got the real duck tales 2 and I got it in a bundle of nes and snes games. It was in a attic for years. A total win for me.

@Mitjitsu 8 лет назад

I had no idea there even was a Duck Tales 2. Guess that explains why it's so expensive.

@D2ezbmu 8 лет назад

Man, I love watching these 2 go ham on topics like these. Get'em!!!!!

@TFWKnightconvoy 8 лет назад

Who steps foot in a GameStop anymore? Seriously lol

@Dziaji 8 лет назад

Right?!? Don't people know about emulators and 8bitdo controllers? This video is like complaining about the fact that the beeper you just bought isn't getting a signal.

@Karmy. 8 лет назад

I've never been to a GameStop

@pockethugoodss 8 лет назад

Bought halo 5 guardians new from gamestop for 5 dollars. However i used a 20 dollar coupon with my points and sold mkx for 30 dollars instore credit, with a trade in deal. Its alright i guess. The best deal i got so far

@Mrvitosound 8 лет назад

+Dziaji there are many people ho like to own a physical copy of games

@Dziaji 8 лет назад

There is no such thing as a phyisical copy of a video game. They are all digital. You are just paying for a plastic box to hold the chip with the data on it.

@yiffytimes 8 лет назад

When the stores were selling GBA games, I picked up a couple of bootlegs. Of course I didn't know this until I bought it.

@InazumaDash 8 лет назад

Gamestop needs to go away.

@Justin_Roiland 8 лет назад

So how do we know people aren't just damaging repros, buying the games, acting like the repros are what came in, then getting media attention..?

@NCaste45 8 лет назад

dear pat, switch the cameras for one episode so the comment section will only say "why does ian get the good camera?" btw I usually don't watch the video just turn it up and listen to the conversation, and game stop needs to just "stop"

@Infernape7890 8 лет назад

And this is why you stick with retro stores. They can test the game for you before you buy it. And cut discs up right in front of your eyes if it doesn't work... I still feel fear from seeing that happen.

@johnschultz1003 8 лет назад

it's gamestop. you can bring in an empty shell and they will give you credit. anything they can do to make another nickel they are all for. is there any way for people to file a lawsuit over this? past gamestop behavior aside, they are obviously not providing the service advertised. from everything I've heard, ordering from gamestop's website is nothing but a disaster. furthermore I have heard they charge a restocking fee on retro stuff and they don't pay the shipping. that's just what I've heard but I've heard it a few times. a return policy should absolve gamestop of any wrong doing

@Csilk 8 лет назад

Gamestop, the place where I went to ask for an arcade stick (ugh a what?) you know like a fightstick on an arcade machine with buttons (oh, that..... well ummm we don't carry that because we aren't actually a game store... we just sell console games)

@BeanoTheKid 8 лет назад

I don't know if this has been said yet or not. But don't you think part of the problem could be GameStop employees that have knowledge about the more expensive titles getting their friends to come in with fakes and chop up the money? Seems like a pretty easy thing to do IMO.

@TheRetroRenegade 8 лет назад

It just seems so easy... So many people selling reproduction "replacement" labels for games on ebay, and anyone can just take a Golf or a Silent Service or something and just slap the label on the cartridge. You can turn a Top Gun into a Snow Brothers for less than $10 bucks and GameStop will buy it...

@Femaiden 8 лет назад

i remember gamestop when it used to be funcoland. this was back in the 90's and even then, they had this whole crazy list with the nes games. it was like the stock market, every game had a different price depending on it's rarity and they had different trade in values and everything. like a copy of Black Bass cost $75 but the super mario bros/duck hunt cartridge had a 1 penny trade in value. gamestop has always been in the business of maximizing their profits from the trading of retro games....but i dunno, i would be mad too if I got something other than what I ordered. Where is the quality control? whether the "victim" is telling the truth or not, Gamestop ought to have a system in place to prevent this from happening

@RapperJJJ 8 лет назад

I love the angry ranting part of this video and I didn't expect GameStop to be this bad when it came to retro trade ins.

@TylerSteven9 8 лет назад

To be fair, a few bad trade ins does not represent the entirety of their trade-in program.

@AxeCrazyAutobot 8 лет назад

At this point Ebay,pawn shops and your local flea market are more reliable and fairly priced then Gamestop...

@daveglo100 8 лет назад

summed up by Pat in the last 30 seconds, "they don't care". its as simple as that. until they make nothing from doing this by no one buying from them, they will not care

@laneharder9993 8 лет назад

Gamestop's retro games idea will probably die without announcing it like when they tried to sell phones and tablets. The upside is getting all the cheap clearance though!

@ThederpyHipoo 8 лет назад

I actually got a PS3 System from Gamestop that had a The Great Gatsby Blu-Ray inside the disk slot. And it's funny, cause on the side there was a picture showing what a person checked. 10/10

@clutchkman 8 лет назад

These videos are hilarious guys. They have totally answered the question, "How can you mess up a store that's devoted to video games?"

@realevostevo 8 лет назад

And to think, it only takes a brief moment to open an retro cart and check it......and they don't even look over the label?

@lextonm 8 лет назад

I bought a fake conkers today at the flea market. Could shut my heart up for $10. Now I have rouge squad with a conkers label. Gotta fuck up sometime.

@megacide84 8 лет назад

The retro games market is becoming tainted with knockoffs/bootlegs/repro carts. This will ultimately poison the collectors market. People still want to play these old games. In addition to inflated prices. Now everyone has to worry about counterfeit products. This is why Nintendo & Sony need to STEP UP and expand their library of retro games from past generations onto Virtual Console & PSN/PS Classics. At least Microsoft had the right idea with Rare Replay. The sad thing is...For the collectors price of a boxed complete mint condition Conker's Bad Fur Day+working N64. You could spend a few bucks more & get an XBOX ONE with Rare Replay.

@coupdeforce 8 лет назад

I got ripped off in 2003 and have never been back. I bought Age of Empires 2 in a sealed box that clearly had the manual and everything inside, so it seemed like a good deal. It did have everything when I opened it, except for the actual game. Instead it had a jewel case with Real War. I still haven't played AoE2.

@Theendgamelv3 8 лет назад

I am curious to know how many sales that Gamestop does with its retro games, especially their cartridge games. If they deal with 10s of thousands of these games, crap like this will slip through. I mean lets say that they sell 10k retro games a year. Well lets say that 600 of those games were bad that is 6%. Meaning that you potentially would have someone tweeting you, emailing you, etc a bad experience for almost over a year and a half when in reality only 6% of their sales were bad. I can't go off on a company without more information. With that said, they really need to train their employees to notice reproduction carts cause that should be pretty easy to spot and they need a working retro system in each store to test these games out. It isn't like they are being swamped with these retro games.

@NickGoblin2 8 лет назад

GameStop also happens to photocopy the boxes of the games they have when you buy it, along with manuals, or at least the one I went to does. I went to another one, thinking to get GTA V, and the box is BROKEN.

@tylerwaiberman8726 8 лет назад

this is why I only shop for old games locally.

@JoeLegero 8 лет назад

"Trim those sideburns, Mattingly!"

@tangytangerine 8 лет назад

Kinda surprised no one has ran into bootleg Dreamcast games yet ordering through Gamestop. Considering how piracy was so easy on that system. Just be glad they're not dealing with Game Boy or GBA games again(yet), as that crap would be more rampant than the NES fakes. It's why local independent game stores in my area won't even take any portable games older than the DS anymore(don't want to risk it).

@solarstrike33 7 лет назад

Even the DS has become a crapshoot these days.

@megagrey 8 лет назад

When I found Mega Man 1 and 5 sitting in a glass case at a local shop, I opened them up once I got them home to make DAMN SURE they were real. And they were. Glad I bought them from a local shop rather than these fucks.

@cj694x2 8 лет назад

I don't know why anyone is surprised about this. Did anyone actually think GameStop had a clue on how to check for authenticity with these retro games, even if they wanted to?

@KevinArcade87 8 лет назад

What propably happend. Person buys Ducktales 2 from GS. Then returns a fake Ducktales 2 claiming it does not work. Then somehow whoever took it back registered it as a "return". It gets send back. Then someone orders Ducktales 2 and receives that broken fake cartridge.

@NoName-cz3wn 8 лет назад

So someone sends it back because it doesn't work, and Gamestop doesn't test it before sending it back out? Idk if you were trying to defend GS, but if you were, you failed lol.

@KevinArcade87 8 лет назад

+Sean Cone It happens. Could have been a mistake by the employee who took it back. Propably selected "return" instead of "not working return".

@ThePokemaster8 7 лет назад

should just make a whole playlist of gamestop retro stories at this point lol

@tall_retro_gamer34 8 лет назад

Christ sake Pat.

@KidYoureAHomo 8 лет назад

Was that an auqua teen hunger force reference in the ending? Carls football pick

@ryanamberger 8 лет назад

Why don't they just give their store front employees 3.8 and 4.5 security bits to check the more expensive games that come in? Seems like a simple fix to a simple problem.

@ryanamberger 8 лет назад

Also, just one thing about these GameStop fiascos. I wasn't there, I can't say for sure it was GameStop or the customer doing the ripping off. But for you guys to act like it's just absolutely impossible that the customer could do the ripping off is sad. Completely normal that multiple GameStop employees that handled this game didn't notice "reproduction" written on the label, yet just absurd to think a customer could have bought ducktales 2 and then sent a reproduction back for a refund? I'll at least admit I could be wrong as I wasn't there. As was no one else, besides the customer. I harbor a great deal of anger towards GameStop for various reasons, but I'll at least try to be impartial. A perfect fix for this would be when a retro cartridge game over $80 or so is sold online, it has to be done site to store. So the customer goes in to the store they choose to send it to and the employee opens it in front of them and tests it out. Possibly check the boards with the customer.

@OptimusSkiver 8 лет назад

Honestly, I'm still waiting on them to fix my order of fucking amiibo cards. They sent me half of the order I paid for, and the whole thing was on the manifest of the box. So I'm sitting there with Animal Crossing Happy Homes, and just the one single card that came with the game. That's bullshit. I jumped through loops to get through to them enough that they'd offer to replace the items not in the order or give a refund. NEITHER HAS HAPPENED YET! I'm supposedly going to get this form in the email that I have to fill out before that even happens. Basically, the website's notoriety is not limited to the retro games.

@mofriedchickens5892 8 лет назад

Wait, so the the teenager who works at Gamestop and was probably born after cartridge games became antiques doesn't know what a pirated NES game looks like? WHO KNEW? I've also heard about Thousands Of Barack Obama's posting very inappropriate comments on RU-vid. So this raises the question, "Who's dumber, the employees of Gamestop, or the guy who actually trusted Gamestop to know what they were doing?"

@tomjackson1370 8 лет назад

Lucky I have the real Conker's Bad Fur Day

@miket2646 6 лет назад

This is hysterical. The problem here is two hobbyists expecting minimum wage employees to care.

@jbfarley 3 месяца назад

You're violently stupid.

@s.conley9037 6 лет назад

Am I the only person who's wondering if all these fake carts and Game Stoop mishaps and bumbling with retro could possibly be those trying to topple, destroy Game Stop's hold over the videogame industry?

@MrJWTH 8 лет назад

The person who sold this likely could have put Ducktails on the cover and still got away with it.

@PhaethonCrafts 8 лет назад

There are certain games that I don't mind reproduction carts for, these are games like Terranigma, which never came out in the US or other games like that.