The other day I ordered a box of googly eyes. Imagine my surprise when the box contained no googly eyes, but a ton of Switch game cartridges instead. Now I remain with an empty googly eye drawer.
Lmao, I knew this would happen. I remember people saying this channel wouldn't impact the main one and it's just more Arlo content, and yet here we are.
That truly happened to me years ago. I got the Sly Cooper Collection for PS Vita on Easter. That’s when I learned that the cartridge only contains the first two games. Sly 3 was tied to a download code on a piece of paper. A download code that had expired years prior.
@@micahrobbins8353 It's just $10 than your typical game,, jeez. Quit being such a Drama Queen already. Property prices have gone up by $100K , but eh don't hear you making noise about that 😄
I'm not super familiar with Pikmin games, I only played an hour or so of the first one, so watching this footage is kinda fascinating for me. Nearly the entire video, it just seemed like normal Pikmin, semi-cozy, casual, kinda chill, then suddenly at the end you're being CHASED BY AN ELECTRICALLY CHARGED DOG AND BARELY KEEPING AHEAD OF HIM OH MY GOD PEOPLE PLAY THIS GAME TO RELAX?
If you think that electric dog is scary, wait till you see the Pikmin 4 final boss lol. Pikmin is mostly a cozy game but nothing is more stressful than hearing your Pikmin die somewhere and frantically looking around to try to save them. That’s what’s fun about it!
It is both the most calming and most stressful series. You’re just walking around, casually collecting some stuff and looking around, really letting yourself into the music, then you hear the Pikmin dying from the distance and suddenly it’s all “OH GOD! OH GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING WHY ARE THE PIKMIN DYING OH GOD”
Its hilarious that you buy a game and do t get the game that you paid 60 bucks for? Im not trying to be a buzz kill, but it is weird to me that people are calling people stealing switch games and scamming others is hilarious. Am i missing something?
Arlo, this was really disappointing how light you made of this. Did you not know of the impact that the demand of googly eyes has lead to mass poaching of endangered googlies in their native habitats?
Since no one else has said this seemingly. This did not just start happening, this started years ago, but people have posted it, the idea has spread, and there are more people returning empty cases "unopened" to stores.
If you ordered it online, you can also shine your phone's flashlight into the game case and look through the bottom. If there is a cartridge in the case, you should be able to see the row of electronic contacts.
I used to work at a tabletop game store and we would shrink wrap used games people would trade in. Incredibly easy to do. You just need the plastic wrap and a heat gun and it looks exactly how you would find a new game wrapped in a store. The googly eye bandit probably has this gear lol
I had an old friend who used to bring googly eyes into high school and would stick them on the walls in silly areas. The Goggly Eye bandit strikes again!!
@@TheKrazybomb I'm my case, Walmart manager said it was on the warehousing side, and gave me a phone number to call. Though it could be warehousing, I think it's people ripping off the games and the returning after resealing, then selling the single carts. Happened to me during holiday times, probably because of high shopper traffic, it's easier to make returns without being noticed. Right after I started seeing a bunch of Reddit posts about it
Ever since I was a kid and bought a stack of empty boxes from a gaming store (thankfully I checked just outside the door.) I've made a habit of opening used games and checking for a disk/cartridge and check for scratches at the register, I'd recommend doing the same to anything that isn't shrink wrapped.
"Even if it is a silly prank, it is a victimless one" I mean, if I spent $100 on a new game and got home to a googly eye instead of the cartridge I'd be pretty pissed, ngl Edit: For any late arrivals, armaldo corrected my misinterpretation already, so thank you to them, I didn't think it made much sense for Arlo to think the prank I thought he was referring to was funny
@@chiquita683 "you can afford to get scammed just because you were able to buy something for yourself" What kind of stupid white privilege take is this?!
FYI, if you look into a switch game case from the bottom edge, you can see the cartridge inside. Shining a flashlight at the back of the case at the cartridge location can also help. It’s true that you can’t identify the cartridge label, but you’ll definitely be able to see if there’s a game in there or not.
So this kind of happened to me. I picked up mario party from Target and got home and there was just a black-taped piece of cardboard in the game slot. Target didn't believe me (they thought i was trying to scam them) and Nintendo said it couldn't have been an issue on their side. Someone bought it, took the game out and re-shrink wrapped it so they could return it. Upon closer inspection, the box art for the game was fuzzy looking, so they just replaced the entire case too.
I have been scammed by purchasing a 350$ "sealed" Pokemon Soulsilver game and getting a 10$ random game instead. And by getting a empty "sealed" switch case. At this rate I am going to be gloogly eyed soon...
I would do this prank with friends but hide the cartridges nearby while leaving the googly eye in the case lol or bring it over as a gift, but have the cartridge in my hand behind my back ready to actually be gifted
Feels like there would be some incredible irony to this if the game in question were like, Banjo-Kazooie. One would wonder if it were social commentary for a second, until they realized they'd been ripped off.
I’ve heard of this type of thing happening to legos too, people will take the legos out of boxes and fill it with puzzle pieces, then someone else will end up with a lego set that has no legos
Once ordered a Switch Game that had a piece of cardboard in the cartridge spot. Not sure if it was theft or a display case that was accidentally sent. The case had the plastic wrap.
I genuinely thought this was common knowledge already. This has been happening for years at the Walmart I used to work at. Someone either on the distribution or manufacturing end was doing this. I once had to run an exchange for a copy of Smash that came like this. I opened the brand new box that come off the truck the night before for the customer and the new was ALSO just foam. The googly eyes are a new touch though.
I haven't thought about googly eyes in forever. I love the word googly. What a delightful word. Googly. But what a bizarre story. If this is true, that's not just theft but a prank, which is even worse. If this is just a meme people are faking for fun, then yeah it's pretty funny.
Happened to me a couple weeks ago when buying Red Dead Redemption, but without the googly eye, just the foam lining they put in games place. Upon closer inspection of spine, you can tell where they opened and resealed it.
I'm sure that others have commented this, but if it were actually happening then the reason why it's widespread would be that it's happening within a factory
When Arlo sang at the end, it lined up just well enough with the Honeyhive Galaxy music that I expect I’ll be playing Mario Galaxy someday and start hearing Arlo singing in my head
7:50 I just got sent back like, 10 YEARS. I COMPLETELY forgot this song existed!! Kinect Fun Labs had that song in the Googly Eyes minigame! I even remember thinking back then "Man, this is an in-depth song for such a silly small mini game." But it was a full, real song.... On a full, real album... And I never knew that for years because I didn't decide to look it up at any point.... And now I'm hearing the truth about this now from a story... about this alleged Googly-Eyed Gamer Bandit.... Life is a funny thing.
It is possible, with a flashlight, to illuminate the game cases enough where you can see the bottom of the googly eye/game cart. If you see ridges you're good...otherwise you may have been googlied.
I definitely thought ht next TopicArlo video would be about the Lego Gameboy from yesterday. On the cusp of releasing one of the most anticipated and leaked consoles of all time, the Kings of Left Field decide to release a Lego Gameboy
I remember this happening with Splatoon 1. People would buy splatoon 1, carefully remove the cd without damaging the plastic, slip in adult dvd, and seal the plastic and return to the store.
I once bought a Switch game from Walmart in the US and I kept it sealed for several days, planning on opening it right before streaming it back in Mexico. Well, it turns out that after opening it...there was no game inside. Instead, there was some black foam in place, making it look like there was a game inside if the closed box is seen from the side. I got scammed and I had no way of getting my refund. Never again I will not open a game right then and there.
Arlo mentioning Caspar Babypants & PUSA was definitely surprising for me, as a fan of both, but It has further solidified my trust in Arlo's music tastes. I have the LHS Reloaded Installer collection downloaded and still listen to it sometimes, especially while travelling. Indie alt rock, electronic synth, chipstep, techno, d&b, all good stuff.
I remember listening to Caspar Babypants as a kid. I was 4 when the song "Googly Eyes" was released in 2010. I think it's cool to hear someone reference that song 14 years later
If this is true I know exactly why they are doing it. It’s to get a free game. Basically the take the cartridge out of the packaging, put the googly eyes in the case, repackage it, then return the case with the googly eyes in it to the store.
So, something similar happened to me around 2011. I went to Wal-Mart to buy a copy of Catherine for the 360. Opened up the game case (noticing the shrink wrap was weirdly loose) only to find one of those free Netscape trial discs where the game disc should have been. Someone seemingly carefully removed the shrink wrap, swapped the discs, returned it for their money back, and then I bought it. It was nuts.
When i worked retail, I had this happen. it wasn't a googly eye though. The two times it was a piece of cardboard or a piece of electrical tape folded up. They would reseal the game and return it. Customer service wouldn't catch it but I could tell instantly by the feel once i came to collect it. They always used cheap sealing that feels different.
Definitely. I know this because my copy of Mario and Luigi Brothership was googly eyed. Luckily, Wal-Mart allowed an exchange because we had a receipt, but we had to open the new copy in store to make sure the game was in the new copy. I also took photographic evidence because it was crazy.
It isn't just a googly eye it's also a black piece of plastic bent around the card holder to appear that the game is in there from looking at it from the sides of the case
Uh oh, oh no! I just got my aunt a new game for her Switch for Christmas and I don't think she's opened it yet, gosh I better go warn her about those vile googly eyes, thanks for the heads up Arlo!
Never got googly eyes but back in the gbc to gba era I did have a few times where the box had no cartridge. Luckily the stores I bought them from happily made sure I got my game when I showed them the empty box.
...nah, this has to be a bit. One of those internet-wide bits, you know? The ones where the internet gets together and is like 'doing this would be funny'
😭 I had a sealed copy of TotK that I was waiting to open for when I finished playing BotW and you made me open it. It had the cartridge so nothing went wrong but I was saving it for the right moment
awww its a scam i heard it at the start and i just assumed and was hoping that it was nintendo just sticking a googly eye inside of random switch cases in addition to the cart
And throughout all of the holidays no kids were filmed opening a Nintendo game with googlie eyes? Sounds like people faking it for social media or trying to convince retailers to give them a refund while pocketing the game...
I actually already knew about this story, but it's a funny story how I did. I was browsing Bluesky and I saw a quoted post of this article from Playtonic Games. (A team of former Rare employees involved with Banjo and the like), claiming "it wasn't us, we swear." Probably the funniest part of this story from my perspective. I hope it's not real and if anyone actually losing out on their Switch game to googly eyes get their games proper.
The other day I ordered a box of googly eyes. Imagine my surprise when the box contained no googly eyes, but a ton of Switch game cartridges instead.
Now I remain with an empty googly eye drawer.
The tragedy!
I'm sorry to hear that. I hope the store will return your purchase.
@@HujanPanas315Humanity is doomed😔😔😔
The idea of that actually happening to someone is hilarious
This is the worst timeline.
The Switch 2 “C” button is for checking for googlie eyes in game cases before purchase.
it's called the C button for a reason to C the googlie before buying the game (sorry for the awful pun)
I'll forgive you
I C
“An eye of googlic nature”
Love this line
i found u
A word smith, to be sure.
usually not a fan of his "humor" but that one got me
biblically-accurate googly eyes
"They're hacking the mainframe "
"Uhhh in English four eyes?"
"They're googling our switch cases"
"Now you're speaking my language"
"The search engine?"
i understood this reference
It's all fun and games until Arlo gets a googlic eye in his Metroid 4 box.
This isnt an isolated incident.. I even downloaded a game from the eshop and all I got was tile of a googly eye 😢
Talk about spyware, get that thing off of my Switch!!
👁
At this point, I'm convinced Arlo forgot the password to the original TH-cam account but has no time to get it changed
Lmao, I knew this would happen. I remember people saying this channel wouldn't impact the main one and it's just more Arlo content, and yet here we are.
@@Tubuxis Honestly while the main channel is more creative, I enjoy this format more. It's just more casual and "real"
Unironically lol
the Internet Historian dilema
@@darcidious99 100% this. I'd rather more Arlo than less Arlo. Give me unscripted thoughts on stuff at any point!
It's actually a promotional from Nintendo to build up hype for their upcoming game, "Eyes", a sequel to Arms where you fight with your eyes
Whoever goes blind first wins!
it's like in cartoons when your eyes shoot out of your eye sockets
Awooga
I already made that game in 1997
The wildest part of this whole story is Arlo not being 100% certain that everyone has a googly eye drawer. Of course we do!
😭 🗄️ "Mom found the googly eyes drawer"
Are you admitting to something here buddy???
It also had happened to me with Xbox games, but instead of googly eyes they put just a paper with a code. what a rip off
That truly happened to me years ago. I got the Sly Cooper Collection for PS Vita on Easter. That’s when I learned that the cartridge only contains the first two games.
Sly 3 was tied to a download code on a piece of paper. A download code that had expired years prior.
how do I heart a comment on somebody else's video
Just bought hundreds of googly eyes for my kids' crafting. Now I feel like I have to hide them when Nintendo-loving friends come by.
Mmmm yes I love my $70 Tears of the Kingdom Special Edition GOOGLY EYE.
I'm so confused why he said it's a victimless prank lol, it's literally theft
@@micahrobbins8353he was saying it would be a victimless prank for a bunch of people to FAKE IT. He doesn’t think it’s real.
@EliEngbretson-bq5ot Oooh that makes more sense
@@micahrobbins8353 It's just $10 than your typical game,, jeez. Quit being such a Drama Queen already. Property prices have gone up by $100K , but eh don't hear you making noise about that 😄
@@netweed09 My brother in Christ, we're talking about googlie eyes not the $70 thing lol
I'm not super familiar with Pikmin games, I only played an hour or so of the first one, so watching this footage is kinda fascinating for me. Nearly the entire video, it just seemed like normal Pikmin, semi-cozy, casual, kinda chill, then suddenly at the end you're being CHASED BY AN ELECTRICALLY CHARGED DOG AND BARELY KEEPING AHEAD OF HIM OH MY GOD PEOPLE PLAY THIS GAME TO RELAX?
If you think that electric dog is scary, wait till you see the Pikmin 4 final boss lol. Pikmin is mostly a cozy game but nothing is more stressful than hearing your Pikmin die somewhere and frantically looking around to try to save them. That’s what’s fun about it!
It is both the most calming and most stressful series. You’re just walking around, casually collecting some stuff and looking around, really letting yourself into the music, then you hear the Pikmin dying from the distance and suddenly it’s all “OH GOD! OH GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING WHY ARE THE PIKMIN DYING OH GOD”
@@tristang7982 the baldy long legs in you know where scared me so fucking hard when i played pikmin 4 for the first time
It's a cozy horror game.
Pikmin can be relaxing, but about a quarter of the time is spent running in terror from bulbears and/or bombs
Your honor, I was just making an Everything Everywhere All at Once reference
Apparently the googlies got through to the other universes.
...thats an ominous title. I thought the actual explanation would be worse but this is hilarious.
Its hilarious that you buy a game and do t get the game that you paid 60 bucks for? Im not trying to be a buzz kill, but it is weird to me that people are calling people stealing switch games and scamming others is hilarious. Am i missing something?
@@bas_ee You aren't.
@@bas_ee
Gosh, I'm not celebrating people getting scammed, it's just... the innate ridiculousness of the concept. Like, googly eyes? Really???????????
@@bas_eeI mean if this is a widespread issue, they should be returnable, right? Hopefully?
@@bas_eeIts fighting against Capitalism, there is no reason a game should be $60
“Always check your candy” has never been so real
Arlo, this was really disappointing how light you made of this. Did you not know of the impact that the demand of googly eyes has lead to mass poaching of endangered googlies in their native habitats?
Taking it more seriously: they could argue you put the gloogly 😊eyes yourself and make no refund.
Good thing the British Ooglies variety of Googlies appear to be safe at the moment
Since no one else has said this seemingly.
This did not just start happening, this started years ago, but people have posted it, the idea has spread, and there are more people returning empty cases "unopened" to stores.
yup, remember seeing someone post about it on reddit like 6 months ago and it reaching r/all
I love how you intro this video. You have such a way of making it feel like the viewers just having a conversation with a wholesome friend
4:20 I do actually 😭 A local game store sold me an empty Xenoblade 3 case a while back and I have been recording the unboxings since
X2. "Sealed' Pokemon Soulsilver with other game entirely insided. And "sealed" Pikmin 4 with a hole on the side and no game
@@enrique9925 I'm so fcking sorry. That's heartbreaking
A possible way to counter this is to open the cover in the shop. Then the shop might replace it with an actual cartridge
If you ordered it online, you can also shine your phone's flashlight into the game case and look through the bottom. If there is a cartridge in the case, you should be able to see the row of electronic contacts.
I used to work at a tabletop game store and we would shrink wrap used games people would trade in. Incredibly easy to do. You just need the plastic wrap and a heat gun and it looks exactly how you would find a new game wrapped in a store. The googly eye bandit probably has this gear lol
I had an old friend who used to bring googly eyes into high school and would stick them on the walls in silly areas. The Goggly Eye bandit strikes again!!
I actually know someone who had this happen to them! It really sucks tbh. Thankfully some stores are willing to trade back and give you a new copy.
@@TheKrazybomb I'm my case, Walmart manager said it was on the warehousing side, and gave me a phone number to call. Though it could be warehousing, I think it's people ripping off the games and the returning after resealing, then selling the single carts. Happened to me during holiday times, probably because of high shopper traffic, it's easier to make returns without being noticed. Right after I started seeing a bunch of Reddit posts about it
Ever since I was a kid and bought a stack of empty boxes from a gaming store (thankfully I checked just outside the door.) I've made a habit of opening used games and checking for a disk/cartridge and check for scratches at the register, I'd recommend doing the same to anything that isn't shrink wrapped.
"Even if it is a silly prank, it is a victimless one"
I mean, if I spent $100 on a new game and got home to a googly eye instead of the cartridge I'd be pretty pissed, ngl
Edit: For any late arrivals, armaldo corrected my misinterpretation already, so thank you to them, I didn't think it made much sense for Arlo to think the prank I thought he was referring to was funny
He's talking about lying about the googly eyes being an issue being victimless.
If you can afford a modern console you can afford $100, stop it
@@chiquita683 "you can afford to get scammed just because you were able to buy something for yourself"
What kind of stupid white privilege take is this?!
@@chiquita683 What are you even saying? Because he can afford to lose $100 he should be okay with getting scammed?
@chiquita683 what on earth are you saying?
You've been hit by
You've been struck by
A smoooooth googly-eye!
OW! I am looking at the man with the googly-eyes!
This needs more likes
Who else read it with the tune in mind?
FYI, if you look into a switch game case from the bottom edge, you can see the cartridge inside. Shining a flashlight at the back of the case at the cartridge location can also help. It’s true that you can’t identify the cartridge label, but you’ll definitely be able to see if there’s a game in there or not.
So this kind of happened to me. I picked up mario party from Target and got home and there was just a black-taped piece of cardboard in the game slot. Target didn't believe me (they thought i was trying to scam them) and Nintendo said it couldn't have been an issue on their side. Someone bought it, took the game out and re-shrink wrapped it so they could return it.
Upon closer inspection, the box art for the game was fuzzy looking, so they just replaced the entire case too.
I have been scammed by purchasing a 350$ "sealed" Pokemon Soulsilver game and getting a 10$ random game instead. And by getting a empty "sealed" switch case. At this rate I am going to be gloogly eyed soon...
I would do this prank with friends but hide the cartridges nearby while leaving the googly eye in the case lol or bring it over as a gift, but have the cartridge in my hand behind my back ready to actually be gifted
Alternate Prank:
Buy them multiple games and swap the games around.
Total Scramble.
5:46 NO THE PIKMIN WHY
Feels like there would be some incredible irony to this if the game in question were like, Banjo-Kazooie. One would wonder if it were social commentary for a second, until they realized they'd been ripped off.
Real social commentary would be to leave the game in the box and fill all the remaining space with googly eyes.
I’ve heard of this type of thing happening to legos too, people will take the legos out of boxes and fill it with puzzle pieces, then someone else will end up with a lego set that has no legos
[Shakes Fist] PLAYTONIC!
I would feel really ripped off if I didn't get two googly eyes
This sort of happened to me, except instead of googly eyes, all I got was an empty case
Once ordered a Switch Game that had a piece of cardboard in the cartridge spot. Not sure if it was theft or a display case that was accidentally sent. The case had the plastic wrap.
This is real! I bought 100 switch games 2 days ago and 102 of them had googly eyes😭😭😭
I think I heard of something similar a few months ago. Walmart employee opened my game up when I bought it to make sure a game was in there
I genuinely thought this was common knowledge already. This has been happening for years at the Walmart I used to work at. Someone either on the distribution or manufacturing end was doing this. I once had to run an exchange for a copy of Smash that came like this. I opened the brand new box that come off the truck the night before for the customer and the new was ALSO just foam. The googly eyes are a new touch though.
I haven't thought about googly eyes in forever. I love the word googly. What a delightful word. Googly.
But what a bizarre story. If this is true, that's not just theft but a prank, which is even worse.
If this is just a meme people are faking for fun, then yeah it's pretty funny.
Happened to me a couple weeks ago when buying Red Dead Redemption, but without the googly eye, just the foam lining they put in games place. Upon closer inspection of spine, you can tell where they opened and resealed it.
I'm sure that others have commented this, but if it were actually happening then the reason why it's widespread would be that it's happening within a factory
As a matter of fact, yes, I do have a bag of googley eyes. They're backups for my googley-eyed skunk shirt.
Arlo’s voice crack when saying “gooh-googly eyes” made my day
When Arlo sang at the end, it lined up just well enough with the Honeyhive Galaxy music that I expect I’ll be playing Mario Galaxy someday and start hearing Arlo singing in my head
I take issue with you finding this funny I genuinely received a googly eye in my copy of Mario and Luigi brothership
7:50
I just got sent back like, 10 YEARS. I COMPLETELY forgot this song existed!! Kinect Fun Labs had that song in the Googly Eyes minigame! I even remember thinking back then "Man, this is an in-depth song for such a silly small mini game."
But it was a full, real song....
On a full, real album...
And I never knew that for years because I didn't decide to look it up at any point....
And now I'm hearing the truth about this now from a story... about this alleged Googly-Eyed Gamer Bandit....
Life is a funny thing.
It is possible, with a flashlight, to illuminate the game cases enough where you can see the bottom of the googly eye/game cart. If you see ridges you're good...otherwise you may have been googlied.
Ferb, I know what we're going to do today!
I definitely thought ht next TopicArlo video would be about the Lego Gameboy from yesterday. On the cusp of releasing one of the most anticipated and leaked consoles of all time, the Kings of Left Field decide to release a Lego Gameboy
I remember this happening with Splatoon 1. People would buy splatoon 1, carefully remove the cd without damaging the plastic, slip in adult dvd, and seal the plastic and return to the store.
Yeah, well president of the United States of America. Thanks for returning me onto Caspar Babypants Arlo.
No, that's ridiculous! Wait, I can feel it happening... Stop, STOOOOOP!!! 👀
You laugh now, but my dog was stolen and replaced with googly eyes.
"Switch! He's stealing game cartridges and replacing them into smelly knickknacks!"
if you have an exacto knife, an clothes iron, and a steady hand, it's surprisingly easy to reseal game cases
Oh Arlo... This is not a victimless crime if one of these claimants demands a replacement from a retailer or Nintendo. That's the crime.
A googly eye just flew over my house.
I swear this whole googly eye situation has been happening since like 2023 or 2024, and it just blew up again, somehow.
I once bought a Switch game from Walmart in the US and I kept it sealed for several days, planning on opening it right before streaming it back in Mexico. Well, it turns out that after opening it...there was no game inside. Instead, there was some black foam in place, making it look like there was a game inside if the closed box is seen from the side. I got scammed and I had no way of getting my refund. Never again I will not open a game right then and there.
The game cards turned into non edible bugsnaxs that are invisible except for the eyes
2025 is the year of Googly Eyes
Arlo mentioning Caspar Babypants & PUSA was definitely surprising for me, as a fan of both, but It has further solidified my trust in Arlo's music tastes. I have the LHS Reloaded Installer collection downloaded and still listen to it sometimes, especially while travelling. Indie alt rock, electronic synth, chipstep, techno, d&b, all good stuff.
all of a sudden having GameStop open your game is a good idea
I was not expecting the Casper Babypants reference, mad respect 🤝
I remember listening to Caspar Babypants as a kid. I was 4 when the song "Googly Eyes" was released in 2010. I think it's cool to hear someone reference that song 14 years later
This could only be the work of the shapeshifting master of darkness, AKOOGLY EYES
If this is true I know exactly why they are doing it. It’s to get a free game. Basically the take the cartridge out of the packaging, put the googly eyes in the case, repackage it, then return the case with the googly eyes in it to the store.
I, for one, welcome our new googlie-eye overlords
So, something similar happened to me around 2011. I went to Wal-Mart to buy a copy of Catherine for the 360. Opened up the game case (noticing the shrink wrap was weirdly loose) only to find one of those free Netscape trial discs where the game disc should have been. Someone seemingly carefully removed the shrink wrap, swapped the discs, returned it for their money back, and then I bought it. It was nuts.
THE EYE OF SAURON STARES UPON YOU
When i worked retail, I had this happen. it wasn't a googly eye though. The two times it was a piece of cardboard or a piece of electrical tape folded up. They would reseal the game and return it. Customer service wouldn't catch it but I could tell instantly by the feel once i came to collect it. They always used cheap sealing that feels different.
Be not afraid
- Biblically accurate video games
imagine opening your case to find googly eyes. Being indirectly called sillly (as a nintendo fan)
I just miss getting a manual inside the game case...
We all just got up in unison and shook one of our switch game cases
Definitely. I know this because my copy of Mario and Luigi Brothership was googly eyed. Luckily, Wal-Mart allowed an exchange because we had a receipt, but we had to open the new copy in store to make sure the game was in the new copy. I also took photographic evidence because it was crazy.
Also it's not exclusive to switch games. The people at our local Walmart told us it happened in games on other console games as well.
I guess Caine really does have his all seeing eyes on us.
Some WEIRDO just came up to me and taped GOOGLY EYES to my FACE!! I should've never played Pokémon Art Academy for the Nintendo 3DS in 2014!!
It’s mostly harmless - the one harm I could potentially see is someone getting trouble from the retailer if they try and return the game
Speaking of googly eyes, Collab with a Talking Sock!
Just another January Christmas stock clearance strategy
It isn't just a googly eye it's also a black piece of plastic bent around the card holder to appear that the game is in there from looking at it from the sides of the case
Uh oh, oh no! I just got my aunt a new game for her Switch for Christmas and I don't think she's opened it yet, gosh I better go warn her about those vile googly eyes, thanks for the heads up Arlo!
Creppy pasta version is where the eye winks at you
Never got googly eyes but back in the gbc to gba era I did have a few times where the box had no cartridge. Luckily the stores I bought them from happily made sure I got my game when I showed them the empty box.
Must be this new "Water Buffalo Cult" everyone is talking about... 😂
...nah, this has to be a bit. One of those internet-wide bits, you know? The ones where the internet gets together and is like 'doing this would be funny'
Somebody at the cartridge factory was bored at work.
😭 I had a sealed copy of TotK that I was waiting to open for when I finished playing BotW and you made me open it. It had the cartridge so nothing went wrong but I was saving it for the right moment
Spawn Wave suggests that you shine through the case. Look for the game cartridge "teeth". That will tell you if there really is a game there or not.
There are only 2 people who could've done this, Playtonic and Rare
awww its a scam i heard it at the start and i just assumed and was hoping that it was nintendo just sticking a googly eye inside of random switch cases in addition to the cart
You missed out on the ‘not an EYE-solated incident’ joke there 👀
And throughout all of the holidays no kids were filmed opening a Nintendo game with googlie eyes?
Sounds like people faking it for social media or trying to convince retailers to give them a refund while pocketing the game...
legit thought going by the title that this was a pokemon porygon episode situation but no i was way off..
I actually already knew about this story, but it's a funny story how I did.
I was browsing Bluesky and I saw a quoted post of this article from Playtonic Games. (A team of former Rare employees involved with Banjo and the like), claiming "it wasn't us, we swear."
Probably the funniest part of this story from my perspective.
I hope it's not real and if anyone actually losing out on their Switch game to googly eyes get their games proper.
I have a sealed copy of echoes of wisdom from Christmas. I will record myself opening it… just in case… 🤔