Y’all remember when Scott wasn’t just exclusive to RU-vid, and was also available for tv viewers on the short lived G4 tv, now that was certainly a fascinating period of time.
i'm just imagining an actual target employee seeing Scott, Dominic, and probably Sam, recording this in a target and thinking "oh, that target employee is telling him he can't record here, glad i don't have to
I'd like to take a moment and acknowledge that this video starts with Scott standing in the pet food aisle of Target and finding an exclusive can of Lowe's branded baked beans.That's at least three different jokes piled on top of each other within the first two seconds of this video.
It's so funny to me that between all of these store exclusive games that range from "okay" to "outright bad", there's also a critically acclaimed JRPG that's arguably one of the best Wii games
@@samt3412 This really show how resilient Xenoblade is, it could've been a Japan exclusive game, then a Gamestop exclusive, but now it's quite well known and even nominated for GOTY
@PoPo-qp8zq it also helps that Nintendo's marketing in the Switch era pulled a complete 180 on games that were once seen as "too Japanese". Maybe it was to fill a gap in the market left by Sony's westernization during the PS4 years, but Nintendo's arguably the largest marketer of JRPGs and the like in the gaming industry thanks to Nintendo Directs. I was literally sold on Xenoblade 2 back in 2017 by the 10-minute segment on it during the fall Direct. And nowadays, Xenoblade 3 was a big enough deal to warrant the reveal trailer being an end-of-Direct trailer, and Directs are infamous for never shutting up about anime games. All in all, Nintendo has started heavily promoting not just Xenoblade, but plenty of other JRPGS since the Switch's launch
@@samt3412 once, us Xenoblade fans had to eat Burger King, nothing more than the scraps off the floor, but now, we’re eating at Red Lobster. Life is good.
Can attest to this, I went to Bend, OR one time where the last Blockbuster on Earth is, and it's just a tourist attraction that just so happens to dual function as a video store
I really miss Blockbuster. I miss getting new release movies and games for cheap a few weeks after release because they would send way too many copies to my small town. I guess, that kind of stuff is why they are no longer around. lol. I also miss the days when you could spend an afternoon in the city going between Blockbuster and Gamestop trading and flipping games and walking away with hundreds in profit on a vanilla visa card, or buying a stack of $1 Wii Sports that you could throw on ebay for $45-$50. I'm sure with all the resellers these days that would be much harder. Does anyone remember Ninja Reflex? the game that Gamestop was selling for $4 and Blockbuster was giving in credit for $32 for almost a whole summer?
The only real dumb things about the Epic Store exclusivity is that it often happened to games that were already announced to be coming to Steam (including crowdfunded games), and that Epic for a while was making a big deal about how they were fighting the "monopoly" that was Steam... by monopolizing every game they could.
Yeah, Steam definitely deserves to be taken down a notch, but if the only way you can do that is throwing a ton of money at developers for exclusivity instead of designing an actually good store/app... At that point I'm just gonna write off the game as being sold to Epic instead of sold to users, and thus not buy it at all lol
Yep, this. They paid money so I can't spend my money where I want and then called it "for more competition". I just never made an epic account and instead waited a year for Satisfactory on Steam.
Also Steam has genuinely good features for end users like controller configs, in-home streaming, Steam Deck support, etc. People forget you lose all of that stuff with EGS. And if you're the kind of person that cares about online games, you're talking about two separate friends lists here. It's not just about having to use a separate launcher, the service itself is vastly inferior. It doesn't even have VR support. It truly is a worm.
I love how creative Scott is. He just avoided asking permission to record inside a Walmart by sneakely recording some hallways and then do some VERY GOOD green screening. I'm impressed!
"Blockbuster, the store that everyone acts like they want to come back, but wouldn't go more than once if it did" Straight facts. Nostalgia blinds all logic.
We had a Blockbuster when I lived in Alaska from 2016-2019…we were there every weekend. He jokes that no one would go…but they were doing 99 cent rentals in the late 2010s, that shit was a steal. Especially since they also had older movies people actually wanted to watch unlike Netflix. Video stores are way better, trust me
@@jeffbezos3200 I'm just saying convenience is a strong factor. And when people make you compete with convenience you will lose. That's what happened to blockbuster. Someone took their idea and made it more convenient. Just as blockbuster stole the idea of mom and pop rental shops and put them out of business cause they made renting at corporate chains more convenient/consumer friendly
My favorite instance of this, while digital, is that if you bought Shin Megami Tensei IV from Amazon you could give the protagonist a coat made out of Amazon cardboard boxes.
If we get Bloopers to this in Scott’s Stash, I’m hoping people looked at Dominic in his Target employee outfit and either recognized him or didn’t recognize him and asked him where to find something…
I'm pretty sure they actually filmed in a Target, the lighting on them is consistent with the background, the background is consistent with either shot, when grabbing the beans Scott casts a shadow on the shelf, and you can see the odd strand of hair standing on Scott's head, and from what I heard rotoscoping around hair, especially single strands that are against the background without leaving that distinct green outline is damn near impossible.
I'm really not sure. It looks like a (well-done) green screen to me, but they're talking softly and only using lav mics instead of a boom which they wouldn't really have any reason to do if they were on a green screen in their normal location
I'll never forget pulling through the Burger King drive-thru, and ordering a Double Whopper with Cheese, Onion Rings, and a copy of Pocket Bike Racer and Sneak King. Sidenote, I unironically love the Tender Crisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch theme.
0:10 I love how that shot is green screened because they clearly couldn't go into Target with somebody's arm looking like it's bleeding to shit. I kinda like to believe they tried to anyway though.
Don't forget about the exclusive accessories. Like how many stores had exclusive Skylanders, probably the worst being the Chompy Mage for Imaginators, who not only was an Amazon exclusive, but could also only be gotten in a special $100 5-pack that was sold out almost instantly and never restocked.
16:34 Just Dance 3 had a Best Buy Edition AND a Target edition. They weren't the same; they had different exclusive tracks. It was literally impossible to get all of the content on one disc unless you had the PAL version.
This was amazing. It is nice to see the return of a shorter video. Not that i dislike the movies, i love them as well. Its just nice to have ones i dont have to dedicate time to watch.
I love it that you've been changing up the placement of "Hey all, Scott here!" in some of your more recent videos. It felt like I missed something not hearing it at the end, but putting it near the end was a weirdly genius way to shake things up.
4:02 - we all praise him for spending 150K on a game for a second-long joke, but he could've just put the sticker on a random cartridge and we'd never know
Getting a pizza, a movie, and lucky enough to rent a video game on a Friday night was one of the most amazing things as a kid. The fact that I've never heard of any of these speaks volumes.
11:04 I kinda like that idea, actually. If there is one game that make sense as a Target or Wallmart eclusive, it's this one. Cars isn't going to be bought by the hardcore gamer who go to a speciality store, it's main audience is Moms who goes grocery shopping and get a video game for their kids while they're at it and pick the one based on a Pixar movie because that's something they know. This game would've made most of its sales at Target regardless.
Gamestop actually released ten more games via their Gametrust publishing arm. But they were PC games, which explains why you didn't mention them. Some included the game in DRM free format so you could install them but they also included a Steam key, plus a separate soundtrack on CD. And they all had Mac versions, IIRC. Unfortunately a couple of games also had no keys or misprinted keys, so Gamestop said "not our problem anymore".
Scotts uncanny ability to cover obscure topics of retro games most people have forgotten about or don't care is unmatched. This is something from gaming i don't think anyone will miss.
Oh man, he covered the whole topic in just 20 minutes. Bonus content, and PC store exclusives too. Great episode. Bonus content definitely gets some people in the doors if they're superfans; Especially for the sports/cod titles.
This is the second episode in a row where the ending punchline was about Disney•Pixar Cars the Video Game (2006) and I will always cherish such a wonderful happenstance.
As a former Target employee myself, that opening scene gave me war flashbacks. Being trapped in that godforsaken store for hours on end... it was suffocating. Actually it was like have a colored border of my own, but mine was red instead of blue.
You see the advantage of me having an unhealthy sleep schedule is that I get to see Scott the Woz videos the instant they come out! (it’s like 2:50 in the morning rn)
I was working at Gamestop when Song of the deep was coming out. Employees would get a $1 commission for every pre-order that they got to incentivize pushing the game. I think our entire store had 2 pre-orders.
Remember at the height of the Amiibo craze where when I a new wave of figures was coming, every retailer had to have a figure exclusive to them? What a nightmare! Especially ones like Palutena & Corrin Player 2. Then while I worked at Toys R Us, they gave us like 40 boxes of Palu that just rotted on the shelves
How about being in Canada when the SSB Rosalina amiibo came out? Target ceased all operations in the country right around the time the amiibo was supposed to release, exclusive to their stores, so the figure was basically unobtainable within Canada for the longest time until they did a restock for Ultimate, since IDK there wasn't enough time to re-do the deal to allow the figure to be sold at other stores.
11:04 Fun fact - Cars: The Video Game released before the movie did. It's also readily available on Steam these days and has a "Very Positive" user review score.
