How Smart is Your Game Store Clerk?

June 15, 2005 7:12 AM

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I'm sure that every single one of us has a story regarding the ineptitude of our local game store clerks. Well, EGM decided to do some investigative reporting to see how informed (or misinformed) their local clerks were about videogames. They sent in a "clueless girlfriend" shopping for her boyfriend, asking the clerks questions like "My boyfriend says more polygons are better. What are those?" The results are quite hilarious.

Spy: And for portable games, should I get a DS or wait for PSP? Clerk: [The PSP] has music; it's like an organizer. It's a Palm reader - you play your PS2 games on there, you can download from the Internet. I would recommend waiting for it. Everyone's waiting for it.

I remember once I was told a game was canceled despite there being a stack of the strategy guides sitting on the counter. Share your stories!

Alec Matias

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bigimp

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June 15, 2005 7:14 AM

For those who haven't seen it yet, http://www.actsofgord.com/ had the best game store clerk ever.
- stelth
  
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  June 15, 2005 7:21 AM
  
  Oh, how the Gord loves it when you promote his site!
- edgewise
  
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  June 15, 2005 7:42 AM
  
  it's the comic book guy from the simpson's website.
- Carnivac
  
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  June 15, 2005 7:53 AM
  
  He also turned out to be a complete twit after he started posting on the SA forums. It's probably mostly made up.
  - baron calamity
    
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    June 15, 2005 7:56 AM
    
    Didn't someone actually track him down, investigated him and it turned out that he never even worked at a gaming store? I thought I remember reading that.
    - Carnivac
      
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      June 15, 2005 7:59 AM
      
      Apparently he did, according to the SA encyclopedia the store ended up going into debt and that's when he skipped to Korea, the store is now a sports store.
      - stelth
        
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        June 15, 2005 8:08 AM
        
        I wouldn't doubt it. You ever read how many people ripped him off and that he sent to collections? :D
      - Gord-
        
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        June 15, 2005 10:12 AM
        
        I ran up a huge debt and skipped the country? I better update my resume.
        
        carazy
        
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        June 15, 2005 10:33 AM
        
        Cool let me see it when you're done.
        
        TotalFusionOne
        
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        June 15, 2005 12:23 PM
        
        Oh mighty Gord! Please forgive those who claim adoration, but only read through half of your chronicals! Specifically Chatper 23 which doesn't exist and forces the user to go to 24 by typing in the HTML
        
        Past the book of Justice you will find the Hidden Book of Gord! But a happy tale it is not. The Lost Book details the apocolypse of our beloved Gord, and how a great lie was told about debts and such!
        
        Let the holy and blessed discover the light!
        
        bigimp
        
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        June 15, 2005 2:23 PM
        
        Or you can click on the links for chapters after 23 here:
        http://www.actsofgord.com/Chronicles/
        
        Psshaw.
        
        silentlobotomyX
        
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        June 15, 2005 4:35 PM
        
        You have to admit, it was pretty funny how you bet Corbalt you could beat him in one game of Starcraft and he preceeded to hand it to you not once, but ten times.
        
        I remember reinstalling Starcraft to see those.
        
        13tongimp
        
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        June 15, 2005 5:40 PM
        
        Remember when you were perma-banned from Something Awful because you kept getting on your high horse and preaching the gospels of Gord at retarded internet trolls? Those were good times...are you still a rabid jackhole?
  - scener
    
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    June 15, 2005 1:56 PM
    
    it's all fake. It was confirmed by someone who knows him
    - Vincent Grayson
      
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      June 15, 2005 2:13 PM
      
      Fake goes both ways, of course. Some random dude saying "Hey, I know Gord, and he made all this up" is just as lacking in credibility as the site itself, but less entertaining.
- FormerHPB
  
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  June 15, 2005 8:41 AM
  
  Wow, that site is gold, and I could spend hours reading that stuff. Even if it's made up, it's very entertaining.