Incredibly stupid game questions you've been asked.

[Sniderman]

I love my wife dearly. She puts up with my vidgame obsession and - God love her - she helps me hunt at flea markets and thrift stores. However, her working knowledge of games, systems, and characters is nil.

I swear she asked me this question to day:

"Honey, you know 'The Super Mario Brothers?' I know one of them is Luigi, but who's the other brother?"

I stared at her dumbfounded for an uncomfortably long time, before I was able to mutter, "Mario." @_@ She laughed goodnaturedly while I just shook my head sadly.

And what stupid questions have you been asked?

[-hellvin-]

"Do you have that zelda on the xbox?"

Anything in that general line with modified game or system of your choosing.

One time this one couple could not figure out how to hook up their system. They thought it was messed up or something and I was finally able to figure out from them that they had it hooked up with A/V cords and not RF like they were saying and told them to change it to either channel 91 or 92. Then they called home to someone and they were amazed when it worked just fine............................

sigh

[Mr.FoodMonster]

Well, not so much as a question, but a conversation. Some Zelda game was brought up somehow, and this is kinda how it went.

"Some of the stuff that Zelda can get is really cool." - Them
"You mean Link?" - Me
"Uh... no, I said Zelda. Who is Link?" - Them
"...." turn around and walk away - Me

[Emily]

"Oooh look at my grampas cool Atari!" points at Vectrex unit high on shelf.

[MegaDrive20XX]

Best liners I got while working at GameStop and Toys R Us 2 years ago...

"Do you have a Zelda game on N64 that is called Ganondorf's Revenge?"

"Does this play the OLD Super NES games?"

"If I traded in 3 games, I get this free right? Cuz blockbuster does that.."

"Will GBA games work on GBA SP?"

"Can I come back around this counter and see what else you have?

"Do you have that one game? I don't know it's name..." <--- Which game lady...you called me... :hmm:

"Do you have any games for a 6 year old? Because Super Mario Sunshine was too hard for him"

"Hi, my mom says I can use this credit card, is that alright?"

"Do you guys accept Saturn games and systems?" <--- No, but I do *hides it under the counter* :)

"What's the lastest Madden game out now?" <--- point to the calender...they'll walk away...

"Hi I bought this from another store and they said I could exchange it here for a better one, is that ok?" "Sure, but this store is out of this title"...."But they said I could!"

[Richter]

heard this a few weeks ago @ EB "Do you have Halo 2 for the PlayStation 2?"

[Gemini-Phoenix]

My parents aren't too old - Early 40's (I'm 23 by the way) so they are still quite young.

They have a PS2 and play all the usual games liek Medal Of Honor and Gran Turismo etc, but they often come out with the strangest and stupidest questions...


They'll go browsing in a game shop, and come home and say to me:

Them - "So you know the PS2 and Xbox? What's the difference?"

Me (Blatent obvious answer) - "One is made by Sony, the other by Microsoft"

Them - "Oh, so can I play an Xbox game in my PS2?"

Me - "Um... No."

Them (Remembering similar discussions about Snes / Mega Drive's years before) - "Why? The discs are the same size..."

Me - "Because you can't. Why would they do that? They wouldn't make any money on their own console if they did that"

Them - "So can I play a GameCube game..."

Blah blah blah - I get bored about this time and walk out / Swicth off entirely...

[sirgeoph]

Stuff heard while working at GameTrader:

"Can I get credit from y'all so I can go get a game from Wal-Mart?"
"Do you have Marvel vs. Compaq?"
"Is this used?" (pointing at a CD in ajewel case with a printed label on it)
"How are you Gametrader and don't got no PS2s?"
"I got Grand theft auto III from ya'll. how do I unpause it?"
"Do you have the new Yugi-Mon packs?"
"How old do you have to be to work here?"
-"16"
-"what if you're 14?"
"Do you have Madden 3003?"
"Do you have Steinwolf: Return to the Castle?"
"I'm trying to watch a DVD on my PS2 and I've got these 2 lines across my screen. Is there a tracking button?"
-"No."
-"I want my money back."
"Is Shaq-Fu coming out for PS2?"
"Can you call me when you get a strategy guide for Hitman 2 or Vice City?"
-"Sure"
-"Do you need my number?"
"Do ya'll have Grand Theft Versus City?"
"Do you have the new Dragon Ball Z Bandicow?"
"Do ya'll have Marvel dot com?"
"Is this the price for the case or the game?" (we keep the discs behind the counter)
"How much Ya'll whatchamacallitz cost?"
"Do you know when Gran Turismo 11 is coming out?"
"What's this Castlevania thing?"
-"It's about a vampire hunter."
-"Does it have anything to do with Pokemon?"
-"No......you hunt Dracula."
-"Ohh, nevermind."
"Madden 64?!!? Madden 64?!!? Daaaaamn! I didn't know they made those back then! That's older than my mom!"

We keep a log of dumb customer comments. :)

[Ed Oscuro]

"Do you have a Zelda game on N64 that is called Ganondorf's Revenge?"
Ha ha ah ha! That's a good one. Did the game come out on...Game Boy, perchance? LOL

The most obnoxiously persistent question/misstatement is "Konami said Rondo is coming to the PS2! OMG!!" Silly fans.

[pixelsnpolygons]

All fucking day. I almost beat some guy in the head the other week.

Guy: "Are there any Mario games for the Xbox?"

"Nope. Mario is only on Nintendo systems, as it is a Nintendo character."

Guy: "What about the original Mario Bros?"

":roll:"

Guy: "See that original Mario Bros. for Game Boy?"

"Yes..."

Guy: "Did that come out for Xbox?"

"No. Just for the Game Boy Advance (I didn't whip out my DP guide and give him a history, obvious it was released on other systems - but no new ones)"

Guy: "I was just wondering if there were any Mario games on the Xbox."

:eek 2: :eek 2: :eek 2: :eek 2: @_@ :eek 2: @_@ :eek 2: "You're not understanding - Nintendo owns that character - he only appears on Nintendo consoles, like the Game Boy and GameCube."

Guy: "Yeah..."


The asshole didn't believe me. If there's one thing I hate it's when idiots can't just take someone's word for it - but it is obnoxious when they're actually rude to you, like you don't know what you're talking about.



Most of my stories are exactly the same as that - just substitute Mario for Zelda or Donkey Kong and the Xbox for the PS2. Or these mother's try to argue with me that they have the name of a game correct when I am sure it is wrong. I'm just there to help - I can happily shut up and as of late have started to just not bother trying to give them helpful advice... I just nod my head and let them leave thinking that they're actually looking for Great Tureetsmo.

[sirgeoph]

if i had a dollar for each sonic-on-snes or mario-on-playstation question, i'd be rich

[Queen Of The Felines]

Overheard at a Gamestop...

"Can I trade these in for credit?"
"Um, no, they're bootleg copies."
"So?"

x_x

Kristine

[max 330 mega]

i heard a few weeks ago two guys at game crazy discussing metroid prime 2, the sales dude was telling the customer how good it would be, the customer responds with "I never really liked metroid, except for the one on sega genesis where you could walk up walls" and then the sales clerk agreed with him that he liked that one also.... :hmm:

[pixelsnpolygons]

and then the sales clerk agreed with him that he liked that one also....

He was probably just like me - tired of arguing with idiots, so he just agreed.

Reminds me of another story from a few months ago. Young girl comes in (about 17 years old)


"Hi, how much do you sell the PlayStation 2 for?"

Me: $149.99

"That's OUTRAGEOUS!"

Me: Actually, no - that's the MSRP"

"No. I've done my research - Wal-Mart has it for $129.99 and so does Sony's website."

Me: Yeah, good luck with that.

"Do you have Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?"

Me: No, we don't have that yet.

"But it's out!"

Me: "Not here it isn't."

"Well okay, whatever."

[Ed Oscuro]

"Nope. Mario is only on Nintendo systems, as it is a Nintendo character."

Guy: "What about the original Mario Bros?"
In a way, he's right, though he wouldn't know how he is...

...and I can certainly show you a system Super Mario Bros. (in a modified form, as SMB Special) came out on.

[Cauterize]

by a manager in a gameshop i got told The Smurfs 2 for SMS is NOT RARE and hes had loads of copied traded in..... i laughed and walked away!

[Push Upstairs]

Nothing will ever beat being told that all game systems pretty much run on DOS.

[Gemini-Phoenix]

I must be the most annoying customer of all cos I go in and ask the stupidest question every single time...

"Have you got any sealed ones?"

Knowing full well that Game . GameStation are skanky and probably don't. They really must hate it when they see me walk into their shop!


I hate it when sales clerks BS you all the time... I often hear people behind the counter tell stories about prequel's which clearly don't exist and cross-console game mixing...

[pixelsnpolygons]

In a way, he's right, though he wouldn't know how he is...

...and I can certainly show you a system Super Mario Bros. (in a modified form, as SMB Special) came out on.

Yeah, you're right - but you don't need to show me any, I know of several - including his Xbox. But obviously he meant commercial games, and in that sense he is still an idiot and an asshole - double so if his plan was somehow to "prove me wrong" in some roundabout way. If he had've asked me where to modify his Xbox to play ROMs I could have rattled off a hundred places. If he had've asked for a list of systems he could play Mario games on without "sinking low enough to buy a Nintendo" I could have given him a handful of those as well. But as far as being in a department store asking for a commercial Xbox version of SMB, the reality is none exist and that's what I told him.

[Damon Plus]

Why do you play those old games?" Stupid, really :)

[Oobgarm]

"Do you have Zelda for PlayStation or is that only for Sega?"

-best quote from a customer, ever.

[Ed Oscuro]

But obviously he meant commercial games, and in that sense he is still an idiot and an asshole - double so if his plan was somehow to "prove me wrong" in some roundabout way.
The game was a commercial release.

Besides, Mario Bros. (didn't say Super, so I assume that's what he said) came out on all these systems:

Atari XE
7800
5200
VCS
Ports were being made for the C64 (finished?) and the VIC-20.

Plus there's Hotel Mario for the Philips CD-i.

[Lady Jaye]

My favorite:


"Do you have Marvel vs. Compaq?

LOL

[Jorpho]

I would buy Marvel vs. Compaq.

When threads like this come up, I link to http://www.actsofgord.com/ .

[s1lence]

Im so glad I dont work retail :angry:

[Avatard]

This is kinda offbase, but working at Movie Gallery I once got asked if we had any "Squatting Monkey Flying Tigers" in.

[Ed Oscuro]

Hah, how did they manage that one? They were joking, right?

[Avatard]

He was about 13. Dunno what he was doing looking for a rated R movie.

[NEONEO]

I had a game store at one time and had a customer come in and the conversation went to sega genesis games and i can't remember what started it , but his reply was , THAT WAS WHEN SEGA BOUGHT GENESIS RIGHT!

[Richter]

"Is Shaq-Fu coming out for PS2?" ROFL

[Crush Crawfish]

"Do you have Mario Paper for the Xbox?"

"I want St. andre"- little kid referring to GTA: San Andreas

"Castle Shiggymajiggy? what the hell is that?"- when I tried to buy castle shikigami at gamestop.

That's all I got so far..

[NE146]

Actually..maybe I'm bored, but that's one of my main things I do when out shopping to check out if a salesperson is a jerk or not... and that's to ask a relatively simple but clueless question or two and see how the guy reacts/answers it. :P

Like that "Can the SP play GBA games?".. I've asked that! :D

If they're polite and answer the question directly and informatively, that's about all I'm looking for... they get my business. So far I have to say that most people pass that test fine (They can talk behind my back later, that's cool. LOL) I haven't encountered too many assholes thankfully, but I do cross them sometimes (usually in the form of a snide remark to their coworker).

So be careful about some 'dumb question' askers.. they might just be playing you! :evil:

[bargora]

Actually..maybe I'm bored, but that's one of my main things I do when out shopping to check out if a salesperson is a jerk or not... and that's to ask a relatively simple but clueless question or two and see how the guy reacts/answers it. :P

Like that "Can the SP play GBA games?".. I've asked that! :D
That's funny. I do the same thing sometimes, sorta. Except my standard opener is "hay guys, where R the Saturn games?" Something about the Saturn makes dickheads go off.

[MegaDrive20XX]

Oh I just remembered this

"Tak and the Power of Juju" for GameCube just came out....

and this poor lady....told me she went to 8 stores....Three GameStops....Two Toys R Us....Best Buy...Target...Wal-Mart...had the saddest look on her face

I had noooo clue what the hell she was trying to say.

She comes up to me...says "I Hope you can help me...my son wants this game so badly.....it's like "Jew-Jew or Moo-Jew.....and the something..."

and the only words that came to mind were "Mojo"....and running a list of "Silly game names" in my mind...I said "Tak and the Power of Juju?"

She literally jumped 5 feet in the air lol "THAT'S IT!! OMG! WTFBBQ!!! ASL!?!?!"


Wow...friggin wow....what dawned on me...is how many morons working at those eight stores know their asses from a hole in the ground.

The one lesson I learned that day, was Listen to your customer...they take the time to talk to you and listen to you...so just do them the common decent thing and give them the same amount of attention and understanding.

It's a crying shame when most retail businesses don't give a flying flip about what their customer wants.

[Ed Oscuro]

It's a crying shame when most retail businesses don't give a flying flip about what their customer wants.
Businesses, they care...it's the workers who don't. Works both ways actually.

[NE146]

She literally jumped 5 feet in the air lol "THAT'S IT!! OMG! WTFBBQ!!! ASL!?!?!"

LOL Man that's one l33t grandmother! ROFL

[Ed Oscuro]

The thought of somebody ASLing you when they're looking right at you is ROFL

[sirgeoph]

I would buy Marvel vs. Compaq.

When threads like this come up, I link to http://www.actsofgord.com/ .

I have a copy right here (http://thegametrader.com/games/back/customers/mvc.jpg) actually...

[demented-yoshi]

Well I wasn't really a question but they couldn't get the N64 to work but the Snes worked so I looked behind there everything seemed normal then i changed the channel to 3 from 91 and it worked they looked at me like i was god or something then thanked me about 5 times over the course of 10 minutes.

I guess these are the type of people who dont know how to set there vcr clocks when the power goes out then comes back on later.

[Jorpho]

This is the first I've ever heard about this "Channel 91" thing.

[Porkchop]

You get some dumb questions from Thrift store employees sometimes:

1. Standing in line with a stack of Atari 2600 games. "Do you still play thoes old games? " No I buy them for paper weigths.

2. Standing in line with a 3DO. "What is this a Cable TV box?"


There are also dumb statements. Such as this one from a yard sale. While looking at a complete and clean ATARI 2600 system with about 12 games.
"My friend told me to throw that in the trash, because no one would want to buy it." I saved it from the trash for $5.00.

[Porkchop]

My favorite:


"Do you have Marvel vs. Compaq?

LOL

I thought it was Dell v. Compaq LOL

[ubersaurus]

I think what takes the cake is when this kid at my college asked me if you could play minidiscs on the cube. I could understand that, barely....but then he asks if you can play xbox games on a ps2, and vice versa. Well gee kid, I don't know, what with their wildly differing architectures and all.

Of course, my friend Ramon, who works at toys r us was once asked where the Nintendo Xbox was. And I know I was once asked how to beat and ironknuckle in Zelda 2 years back.

[SamuraiSmurfette]

I had someone just today ask me if they could use ORIGINAL Nintendo controllers on the Xbox. Honest!
I politely said no, and her response was:
"I guess I'm going to have to throw them out then"

I love threads like these...So many things to laugh about.
Here are some other Game names gone wrong I remember getting:

Neverwinter Nights Shadows of Urinetide
Grand Theft Auto Varsity
Male Tycoon...not really sure what this guy wanted :\
Maximum Pain (Max payne)
Calamari ....? The rolling thing....
Another one from today:
Middle earth: Battle for the third age.

and other good ones are the vague people:
I want Tony Hawk. "Which one?" The one that's on a disk.
I don't remember the name, but the cover's got a guy with a gun on it.
(turned out after some wild guessing, it was Hitman 2)
Pikmin/Pokmen/Pokyman/Pikyman etc...
and today's "Tycoon 2"...turns out it was "zoo"

Real conversation with a customer over the launch of Majoras Mask:
"I want to buy Zelda"
"Do you have an expansion pack, you'll need it"
"no, I'll just buy the game"
"no, you NEED it to play, it won't work without it"
"That's okay, I'll just play it without it"
"I repeat...You cannot play this game at all"
"That's okay. I'll buy it anyways"

Conversation of two kids Playing a Bujingai demo for PS2
kid 1: "What game is this in the demo?"
kid 2: looks around and sees a crystal chronicles poster nearby
"Final Fantasy"
kid 1: "Ah. That's why the graphics look so good"

Not to mention, We've had an Eyetoy set up for the last month and I have witnessed people trying to play it:
-with the controller
-by touching the icons on the screen
-by touching/hitting the camera
and one girl who was literally punching the TV screen playing "kung foo"

I could go on forever...

[Cmosfm]

1. Standing in line with a stack of Atari 2600 games. "Do you still play thoes old games? " No I buy them for paper weigths.


Speak of the devil!

I was paying for "Monaco Grand Prix" for Dreamcast today at EB, and the employee says to me "man, do you still have a dreamcast? those things are so OLD"

....no....

...don't have a dreamcast, I just buy dreamcast games cause I like to waste money. [/sarcasm]

:roll:

[sirgeoph]

The funniest question I heard an estimate of 45 times today:

"Do y'all have any PS2s?"

[ASSEMblerEX]

" Don't they make any more one button games ?"

From a pal who only owned NES and Atari.

[SoulBlazer]

Hell, I don't even think they make four button games anymore. LOL

And what's so stupid about asking for a PS2? In a EB yesterday I heard at least three people ask at the counter for a XBox. Parents don't know it's impossible to get one of those systems right now -- how would they?

[sirgeoph]

I didn't say it was stupid, I just thought it was funny... especially because I had to answer the phone all day to say "No, I'm sorry, we're sold out right now. Yeah, seems to be the case everywhere. No, I'm not aware of anyone that might have one."

But, it's kinda silly not to think about buying these early since it's like this every Christmas season with the current systems.

But as you said, how do they know?

[MegaDrive20XX]

It's a crying shame when most retail businesses don't give a flying flip about what their customer wants.
Businesses, they care...it's the workers who don't. Works both ways actually.

yeah your right, I should re-word that....to say

WHO the hell hires these morons!?? doesn't anyone do a background check??

[demented-yoshi]

This is the first I've ever heard about this "Channel 91" thing.

Ya well my friend had this weird T.v built in a wooden case big old heavy t.v like really heavy and and anything using the Av cords would have to be on channel 91 the channel the vcr worked on although they didnt no the rf had to be on channel 3 or 4 since they lost there av and never used the rf switch before.

[imanerd0011]

I showed my friend a trailor for the next zelda game that is coming out, and right after he saw it he said"what system is that coming out for". I was just like "dude, you've got to be kidding me" . LOL

[SamuraiSmurfette]

Oh! one I forgot from yesterday:
"Do DS games work with the Game Boy Player?"
"no"
"Why not?"
"well, the cartridges won't fit, and your TV has neither 2 screens, nor a touch screen"
"well, that's stupid!"

[Dahne]

WHO the hell hires these morons!?? doesn't anyone do a background check??

That gives me many amusing mental images.

"I'm sorry sir, we can't hire you. Our system says you are too damn stupid."

[K3V]

Not a question, but a stupid comment I heard at lunch at work today. One woman was talking about how her nephew has games and her daughter saw them and wanted a Game Boy (apparently the little girl has been sheltered from games her whole life). The woman said she'd never buy her daughter a Game Boy because "those things rot your brain."

Comments like that really drive me up the wall.

[Jorpho]

Of course! Everyone knows that posting on message boards is the only true method to rot one's brain. Or not. ;)

[XxMe2NiKxX]

"I wanna return Metroid Prime, all shooters have online play, where's the PS2 version?". There are so many things wrong with that.

[qbertandernie]

heard a good one today, and actually made me think of this topic...

shopping at gamestop, looking through ps1 games, i heard a 30 something woman ask about racing wheels...she seemed fairly knowledgable at first, remarking about the relative quality of various manufacturers, then asked 'can you get those for gameboy advance?'

naturally i had a mental picture of a kid crouched over his gameboy advance trying to see a 4 inch screen while steering a large wheel. like an old lady driving, maybe looking through the wheel at his gameboy...add pedals and it becomes even more ridiculous.

is that how you spell knowledgable? it doesnt look right...

[bargora]

heard a good one today, and actually made me think of this topic...

shopping at gamestop, looking through ps1 games, i heard a 30 something woman ask about racing wheels...she seemed fairly knowledgable at first, remarking about the relative quality of various manufacturers, then asked 'can you get those for gameboy advance?'

naturally i had a mental picture of a kid crouched over his gameboy advance trying to see a 4 inch screen while steering a large wheel. like an old lady driving, maybe looking through the wheel at his gameboy...add pedals and it becomes even more ridiculous.

is that how you spell knowledgable? it doesnt look right...
Wait'll you see Steel Battalion Advance.

[sirgeoph]

actually, they do make a wheel for the gba... it's purple and the gba fits into the center of it... i saw it at eb a while back and we got one in on trade earlier in the year

[Ed Oscuro]

" Don't they make any more one button games ?"

From a pal who only owned NES and Atari.
And that button could be the depress sensor in an analog stick (ala the XBox). Just think of all the possibilities...more positions than a Berzerk controller, and the easiest button ever! LOL

Now, it's the two-button games that cause all the trouble :P

[Famidrive-16]

Stuff heard while working at GameTrader:


"I got Grand theft auto III from ya'll. how do I unpause it?"

"How old do you have to be to work here?"
-"16"
-"what if you're 14?"

"I'm trying to watch a DVD on my PS2 and I've got these 2 lines across my screen. Is there a tracking button?"
-"No."
-"I want my money back."

"Madden 64?!!? Madden 64?!!? Daaaaamn! I didn't know they made those back then! That's older than my mom!"

We keep a log of dumb customer comments. :)

These are the winners of this thread.