Re: Half humor. Half Thought. All Game Player.

From Cadimus <xxxxxx@tds.net>
Date
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>The sad thing here, is that he is not the first person to look at a
>Japanese game and ask if it was spanish!
>What, did they stop teaching the second language in schools or something?!

That is not the first time for me either.  My mom works at Toys R Us as 
manager and she frequently have to handle customers who doesn't know much 
about video games.  Here's a few examples that makes you wonder if 
someone forgot to upgrade the customer's brain from stone age to 20th 
century technologies.  ((You might want to get a clean underwear just in 
case))

(Sometime in '87 or '88) One time, a customer brought back a few Atari 
2600 game cart & complained it doesn't fit in their Nintendo system.  
Wha...???  Apparently the customer has an Atari 7800 (which can take 2600 
games) and thought Nintendo was a replacement for 7800.

('95) A customer left Toys R Us, fuming because Toys R Us no longer 
carried Intellivision games.  He must be related to Rip Van Winkle 
because TRU hasn't had any Intellivision stuff for almost a decade.

('96) The customer tried to return Star Tropics for 8 bit NES because it 
didn't work.  Turns out the customer didn't know Super NES and 8 bit NES 
are not the same thing.   DUH!!!

('97) Someone found a very dusty game box for Vasteel for TurboGrafx.  
But he didn't know about TG-16 and was asking if it works on PSX or 
Saturn.  When he was told it's for TurboGrafx 16 system, he wanted to buy 
that system but it was discontinued a few years earlier.  He left the 
game and went to get a PSX game instead.   I ended up getting that game 
for myself for only 99 cents. (plus 6 cents tax)

If you think TRU is a strange place, wait till you hear this:  a couple 
months ago, I found a new and unopened X Band modem for SNES.  Since the 
company no longer supported X band, it was worthless and I got it for 
free.  No one knows how or why it was still around 2 years after it was 
discontinued.

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