Another Reason to Avoid GameStop

Post by **racketboy** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 8:29 am

I loved Funcoland before they were bought out.
I could spend hours browsing their newspaper-like price list.

Post by **grittykitty** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 12:33 pm

don't remember gameco, but i was all about funcoland! i stocked up on nes games, and even bought my first saturn there. i always loved getting the printed lists in the mail too

Post by **Mozgus** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 2:54 pm

grittykitty wrote:don't remember gameco, but i was all about funcoland! i stocked up on nes games, and even bought my first saturn there. i always loved getting the printed lists in the mail too

The Funcoland I had when I was a kid was terrible. It was run by greasy idiots with ponytails, and they would check us for money everytime we went in, and tell us to get out. Because 4 of every 5 visits, we were just there to play the demo units. But ya can't say I didn't give them any business, because nearly all my NES games were bought there, one at a time, weekly, with my allowance. God I hated that place.

Post by **racketboy** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:28 pm

Mozgus wrote:
grittykitty wrote:don't remember gameco, but i was all about funcoland! i stocked up on nes games, and even bought my first saturn there. i always loved getting the printed lists in the mail too
The Funcoland I had when I was a kid was terrible. It was run by greasy idiots with ponytails, and they would check us for money everytime we went in, and tell us to get out. Because 4 of every 5 visits, we were just there to play the demo units. But ya can't say I didn't give them any business, because nearly all my NES games were bought there, one at a time, weekly, with my allowance. God I hated that place.

Wow that does sound crappy -- you must have gotten the worst of the bunch

Post by **grittykitty** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:13 pm

too bad you had such a sour experience mozgus

funcoland was a great place for me. gamestop really doesn't like the kids that come in to play the demo units. i even grew to dislike those kids myself when i worked at gamestop - we were basically free babysitters.

in houston there used to be this really cool gameshop that dealt with a lot of japanese imports and neo geo, it was called gametronix (they used to advertise in egm back in the early 90's). i would go in to play the games i couldn't afford and this ponytail-guy would always come turn off the console i was playing and take the game out, what an asshole! i wonder if there was something going on with ponytail guys in the video game retail world...

Post by **Mozgus** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:30 am

grittykitty wrote:too bad you had such a sour experience mozgus funcoland was a great place for me. gamestop really doesn't like the kids that come in to play the demo units. i even grew to dislike those kids myself when i worked at gamestop - we were basically free babysitters.

Well we weren't bothering anyone, and we weren't hogging the machines either. Whenever someone asked us if they could play, we got off. I mean, the place had a full dozen demo units running, unlike stores nowadays.