Fun story: I had this kid that I knew in elementary school and we were pretty great friends but then he moved away. Life moved on and I basically forgot he existed. Fast forward almost 20 years later and I’m perusing my local retro game store where I buy a copy of Breath of Fire 2 on SNES as it was one of the few SNES RPGs I still needed at the time. As I’m checking the condition of the cart, I see on the back of it there’s a name scribbled on in magic marker. It was that friend I had oh so many years ago! I actually ran into him out in public about a month later and he said he had just moved back to the area. I told him I got his old copy of Breath of Fire 2 and we started chatting again. Funny how video games can bring people back together sometimes.
Well I was one of those kids who would just bite cases all the time ferociously, and plasticy things in general, I still bite on my ds pen for no reason without noticing and im 19 8)
My local retro game store puts an easy-to-remove plastic wrap around all the games they sell, THEN put the stickers on. Makes it so you don’t have to worry about trying to get it off. It is a GODSEND.
Sometimes the gamestore doesn't make sure the games work sometimes and if it doesn't then they just don't anything about it. Reason: they didn't test it.
Holy shit. I run a used game store. I would never ever make my employees do that, they would all quit immediately. God that sounds like a pain in the ass
Hi Scott so fun fact I was a lead retail designer for Microsofts company store program for about seven years, so I can actually shed some light on those ridiculously large stickers. As you might imagine they do serve a purpose, every MSFT employee has a number associated with their employee ID that was tied to an internal tracking system that tracked how much hardware/software they were allowed to buy each year at the discounted price, the system was old and a pain in the ass to use. Moving on, so they were supposed to write their number on each piece of software they bought as basically a confirmation that they are agreeing not to do naughty things like go a sell the copy of office they just bought for $20 for the full retail price on ebay, same went for games and Gamestop corporate knows about these stickers and they are supposed to report any games they get with them (hint they don't all the time) But yeah they are big and obnoxious basically to just be obvious and serve to act as a pact with satan whenever an employee buys something at discount, also bonus fact the newer versions of these are designed to flake if you try and remove them so only tiny bits come off like a reverse lotto scratch ticket. Anyways hope you all enjoyed my little trip down memory lane.
@@wheezyultragaming8511 ahaha i did not think my comment would actually get that much attention, also I'm flattered that you think my title was fancy enough to warrant a "cool story bro" for real though it was a lower level contractor position :P
It's good to know companies don't trust their employees and when they choose to spend what disposable income on their employer's product, they then reward them with as much anti trust systems and torture contraptions as possible to make life a pain in the ass for all employee purchases, not just the resellers! Ah it feels great being tortured by my own place of employment for bring given the honour for working for them!
I love Scott's brand of physical comedy where he clearly decided "These are the games and cases I'm fine with ruining" before recording, then doesn't hold back in ruining those things in the funniest ways.
@@KaRaTeLoRd11PS3 i mean its not unlike scott to sacrifice super expensive things for his vids. he spent a fortune on that virtual boy vid, and on his second channel in an episode he mentions how he literally almost bought a real therapist bed (furniture aint cheap) for the mario tennis ultra smash video till he realised his couch would do the trick, conveniently. + the oh so famous “i hope i got that on cameraaaaaa-“ for that 2ds xl breaking proves he takes a lot of risks with his gags too. Or maybe you’re right and he bought a ton of crap from the dollar store idk, its just that scott is so devoted to his channel with no profit in return the sheer extent of his work must be realised!!
Funnily enough about other making their own box art whenever an old neighbor moved away and gave me his son's old PS2 games, god bless his heart, he took old movie cases he had and flipped the cover then made really detailed sketches of them. Lego Star Wars had a full on sharpie sketch of Lego Vader. It's nice to look at sometimes and wonder what inspired him to do it.
Well, at least you get to know Spanish. Make sure to put Spanish as one of life long objective to learn. Remember to jot it down. Hopefully if you have enough HP by then.
I have a copy of Wii Fit in a box labelled “Wii-Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” from Blockbuster. First of all, why is there so much shovelware on the Wii? Second of all, why waste time getting a box at all if you’re not gonna put the right game on it?
@@neutralamity former Blockbuster employee here. Sometimes we would sell games in sleeves and a customer would ask for a case when they were paying, so I would just grab whatever case was laying around if they didn't mind. Believe it or not sometimes printing those boxes could be a bitch.
@@XRelays when people rented games from blockbuster or any other rental company they didn't come in their box art, so if they would never return the game they would own it without the box art. Also if they ended up selling the games used most of the time they didn't come with box art.
Hi, ex gamestop employee here to offer context! A lot of the times we just ran out of cases. Sure, GameStop may send us generic cases by the bulk, but other times when we get trades that are just discs or cartridges or what have you that exceeds the amount of cases we had we had to make due. That baseball sticker? Yeah that case came from a salvaged case whose game was unsalvageable and hey! A case! As for cleanliness, the stores I worked at were particularly busy. It becomes unfeasible when GameStop only has one or two people and the store at a time to vigorously clean everything. for me what it generally boiled down to was yo this is gross I'm not buying it from you. As for the cheap plastic cases (that smell like burnt rubber as soon as you open the box)? Money. GameStop is cheap and will go to *any lengths to save a penny.* Hope that helped!
@@liamsgreatbitgaming That wound still hurts. Animals! Wait, that's offensive to animals. Don't worry former Games on a Shelf employee, I'm talking about corporate (or whoever implemented that policy). What really baffles me is that they claimed it was to save space, but the DS display case honestly took up enough space to house several shelves of games *in cases!* WTF? 🤔😑
I got Yoshi's Wooly World in a black DVD case with GameStop artwork, but got a 99 cent Wii game (in a translucent green Xbox 360 case), swapped the cases and printed the box art, so my collection is... unique. I did get some blank yellow DVD cases and use them for the Wii Lego games with the yellow spine art, those look classy. 👌
I used to know somebody who, upon buying a new game, would put the disc in a paper wallet, bin the manual and case, cut the front artwork off, bin the rest and put the front artwork on his wall like a poster. He deserves his spot in hell.
What a psycho. I get it if a young kid would do that given some don't know better, but a grown individual? That's just inhuman! If stuff like that was criminalized, he'd be serving a life sentence!!
its Kearstin. i wrote my name in my games because back in the 90s, friends would borrow games and to keep track, we sharpie marked out names on everything. i haven’t watched it but i’m reading about it… i’m afraid to watch… from what i hear, he destroyed it… and it destroyed ME 😢
@@kaybby0910 Scott did not destroy your Pokémon Snap copy in this video. As far as I'm aware he's never destroyed anything that had writing or anything else personal.
@@Thoomas2001 you have no idea how relieved I am to hear that. That’s the whole reason why I could never watch the video because of what people were telling me. I heard it was an honor to have a game featured in one of his videos and at first I was like holy shit that’s amazing my game is famous! But then I was fed misinformation that led me to believe false facts…but yes, that was, indeed my original copy of Pokémon Snap for the N64 with my 9 year old written name on it, and I regret nothing 😎 (btw, I’m 32 now and yes… I still game like it’s 1999 🤣)
And that's why I ALWAYS make sure to check for authenticity when buying secondhand (or even third or fourthhand) games. Luckily, I've gotten relatively lucky with avoiding stickers and residue though.
Most interesting used game I own is Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the XBox 360. Found it at a local thrift store in a Fifa Soccer 09 case. The back is so scratched that there's a cutscene that it always crashes during that can be avoided by skipping it, and the floor disappears for a portion of one level, and if you die there the game crashes, but then you reload your save and its back to normal. 10/10 would buy again
Two things put me off of Gamestop forever: -Bought a "new" copy of Skyrim back in 2012. Dude gave me a case that wasn't shrinkwrapped, it had been opened. He assured me it was fine. That disc never made it past the title screen. It even looked worn down a bit, but I was younger and didn't know any better. -Bought a used game because it had the case. The dude took the disc out of the case, popped it into one of those shitty CD envelopes, and gave it to me. We kind of got into an argument about the case. He said the store needed it, so I asked for at least the game art slip, but he refused, so I immediately returned the game to him. We annoyed the shit out of each other, I'm sure.
Honestly if that second scenario happened to me I'd do the exact same thing. I bought the fucking game, and I even went against my principles to get it at Gamestop- no less: I deserve the game in a damn case, even the crappy stock black ones with the Gamestop cartoon art and the name of the game written in sharpie
I once bought a used copy of smash for Wii U and it was just a blu ray disc with the smash disc art on it -_- on the bright side they did give me a new copy as a replacement
So for those “new” games that aren’t sealed to avoid someone stealing a whole game they open one, set the disc aside and use the case for a display and it is supposed to be the last new copy sold, however speaking as someone who had friends who worked for Gamestop those loose disc “new” games would frequently go home with employees if they had plenty of new copies in stock, they’d play it for a day or two then bring it back and charge someone $60 for a game that had been played before.
I ordered San Andreas for the 360 for like 25 dollars and it didn't even work. Safe to say I never ordered anything from Gamestop's website ever again. When I bought my Xbox One I bought a used copy of Battlefield 4 for 15 dollars in mint condition.
@@scramblesthedeathdealer the only bad part about it was the owner put a sticker with their name on it on the INSIDE of the cover but at least it's not visible
To be fair, when you have younger siblings, you'd be surprised at how many times they mess with the boxes that hold the games. I've lost so many covers to this over the years
@@Xpwnxage when I was a kid kid I never really got to do this because we bought most of our games loose But that doesn't stop me from having multiple milk cartons with wii games
I once got a used copy of Toy Story Mania on the Wii that had a ton of bite marks on the case, ripped up plastic cover and Tabasco stains on the disc. Wish I knew the story behind THAT
I once bought Battlefield 3 for the PS3 on Facebook Marketplace or some shit like that. The guy just used a random stock photo from the internet so I got the game in a cracked Blu-Ray case with a printed out pixelated af box art. Eventually I sold my PS3, and with that most of the games. When the guy at the thrift store looked through the games he picked up BF3 and looked at me like "Wtf is this?". I just shrugged and told him "That's how I got it myself. I've no idea."
@@pheilimobrien6634 I can't remember how much exactly I got for it, but considering at this point BF Hardline, if not even BF1 was already out it didn't matter to much anyways lol
I remember ordering a used copy of Pokemon Sword off Amazon like a month after it came out, and when it came it the box looked like it was falling apart and the plastic holding the box together just snapped down the middle of the spine. Game worked at least but it leaves me wondering how that just happens.
When I was in middle school I wrote a hand written letter to the CEO of gamestop asking him to use stickers that were easier to peel off and and he actually responded with a hand written letter saying they would look into it, a $20 gift card, and then about a month or two later I noticed Gamestop started using better stickers.
Physical vs digital games - 5 minutes Player's choice - 12 minutes Game collecting - 26 minutes Art of box art - 18 minutes Game packaging - 45 minutes Used games - 13 minutes how was listening to someone talk about game boxes for 2 hours so entertaining
Thegamingcasanova is probably a hater he comments on all of scotts vids and all they are is just hate comments he probably has his notifications on just so he can know when to write them
Soon-to-be former GameStop employee here! In terms of the generic cases having a custom size, it's likely due to the fact that we sometimes use actual PS4/Xbox One cases that become extras once the game has been sold. (Still not exactly sure how that happens, though.) In any case, the cover art that's printed can fit in those cases, as well as the black generic ones that we get sent in. As for not cleaning games, we really aren't trained in doing it, nor do we have proper equipment for disc cleaning and/or resurfacing. I've seen retro game stores that have this equipment, though, which really makes me want to support them more than a place like GameStop. Resurfacing machines are apparently pretty pricey, but they definitely make it worth it, seeing as customers get the reassurance that their disc will be in the best condition it can possibly be in. I mean, they resurfaced my copy of Yu-Gi-Oh! on the PS1 _three times_ before letting me have it! (Also, the single game I was willing to purchase in a generic case was, of course, Chibi-Robo Zip Lash. I'm still waiting for my local Walmart to lower the price on the in-box version with the Amiibo, namely since the box has been tattered to no end since it's been there since launch. It's still _forty dollars_ and supposedly on clearance.
For those curious, here is Scott's Few Reasons™: • What is saving that five dollars going to do for you? • More importantly what is it going to do for me? • You could literally just wait four more days and the new game will get a price cut. • Or just rent the game. • Or you could just borrow it from somebody. • Like who can spend fifty-five dollars but not sixty? • I get everybody has their own problems but it's five dollars. • If it's really an issue you could definitely find a used copy only for six dollars off. • Five dollars, really? • Really? • It's five dollars. • At least if it was fifty-eight dollars that would be such a huge rip I think I'd respect it more. • Five dollars off feels like they're trying to make it look like they're giving you a deal. • But are they really? • You ever have those days where you have nothing else going on and you have to find something to be upset about? • It's one of those days. • You know what? • I've had it. • Enough of these five dollars discounts. • We either deserve a hell of a lot more or a hell of a lot less. • Something needs to change. • If games were fifty-six dollars used, things would be different. • I'd only have four spare dollars at that rate. • Which means less disposable income. • And I HATE disposable income. • Absolutely despise it. • The quicker I get less deals, the more I can evaluate my self worth. • You ever have those days where you have nothing else going on and you evaluate your self worth? • It's one of those days. • I love days like these.
I need that $5 for my next brief meal. Ah, that really set the hunger aside. Time to buy more $55 used games. I got $5 to spare again. Hey McDonalds, I see you in a jiffy. Wait, $70 games. I wonder how Gamestop going to put the price on used game on it. I think it's $64.99. Hey, by then I got $5.01. Yay, more unhealthy fast food to get.
I always took care of my games. But how do some discs get so many scratches, marks and dirt on them.. I can't imagine why people just toss their stuff around or leave it where it's prone to get damaged. And yes, i hated those stickers that left some residue on the game case.. 😕
Bruh I bought a Pokemon mystery dungeon game with all of the manuals and the box and stuff but the cartridge was so dirty and looked really discoloured in loads of places and just looked gross, thankfully it works. But seriously how do you take care of a 3ds cartridge so badly?
@@funjalm Yeah, when I was young I kept all my discs on a spindel and they would get scratched to hell, some became even became unplayable like my Pitfall lost expedition or Kingdom Hearts 1.
”OH GOD, THE STICKERS!” This… this resonates with me. I swear my bad childhood gave me less PTSD symptoms than the cannot-get-it-off-without-dynamite (seriously, isopropyl alcohol and acetone didn’t work) glue residue on my used copy of FFXII: The Zodiac Age. When on the shelf, it always _sticks to the game next to it_ so now my FFXV that I bought new ALSO HAS GLUE ON IT. AAAAAAAAAGH! For the 1.27 people who are interested: most of the problems with stickers are due to them being there for a long time. The glue will eventually dry up a bit, going from ”sticky but easy to peel” to ”oh god get it off of me HELP”. Some stores use shitty stickers, but basically no sticker will come off easily if it’s been there for years.
I have so many words for the wise guy who ruined such a treasure. Granted, my copy of the original FFXII waw pretty scratched up. Certain cinematics froze as did the start-up menu. Some people need to learn to treat stuff well.
I've never come across a sticker that I haven't been able to take off. You just need to slow the fuck down, take it one millimetre at a time.. no, even less than that, literally creep that sticker off as slow as humanly possible. They all come off without tearing and with minimal residue.
Heat it up with a hair dryer. Peel it flat along the surface like a sideways U, don't pull it away from the surface. Use WD40 on a rag to dissolve the residue, and a clean one to wipe it away.
“You’d figure they would be using bulletproof paper” HELP THERE IS A MAN IN MY ROOM WITH A GUN, PROTECT ME GEIST! *gets shot* Should have used warioland 4
Exactly, it's like second hand sellers go out of their damn way to make sure YOU the customer you bought that copy of the Star Wars Holiday from Big Al's movie and game emporium. I've adopted many techniques for removing various vile stickers and inks from boxes and carts. For carts, Neverdull gets rid of most ink and markers. For my Laserdisc and VHS sleeves, just plain patience and very slow removal. And if all has failed, ebay has good deals on boxes and many art repros.
For the online pass game at the 12:00 mark, it goes back even earlier than the PS3 days. I remember when my uncle got me Phantasy Star Online (used) for the Dreamcast, it required an online pass (which was already used), so I could only play the damn thing offline solo and didn't get very far..
"What did you spill water on your game and then try to dry it off with a saw?" 5:41 Scott's so funny I'm glad my friend recommended his channel, I can't stop bingeing!
@Terry Bogard Yeah I think this is correct. For example he bought that mystery box collection and I am sure he has doubles if not more of the same games that he uses to destroy in these scenes. He is a real collector, he would not destroy a game if he only had 1 copy of it.
@@Foril89 yeah. Also with the episode where he is hitting a ps2 with a hammer in the consoles that won't die vid. He probably had another one and the one used in the vid was an already broken system.
Personally, I love getting used games with names on them. Like the rental branding, it's just a little part of that specific game's history that makes it just a little more special. Sometimes it's just a standard name, sometimes it's my used copy of DKC that has "BEANS" written in big bold letters on the back. I like to imagine it was signed by one of the game's composers (Robin Beanland), as highly unlikely a scenario as that may be lol.
i actually managed to lose the box art once. it was a wii u game w=back when the club nintendo things were printed on the inside of the art and i wanted to see what it was. i accidentally forgot to put it back in the case then my mom dead ass threw it away. i found the game used for like $5 and harvested it for parts to have the game whole again. my friend took the naked disk and i have a random blue dvd case now
Or the one bringing it into the store might have just sold the original box on ebay (I've seen videos about this on some retro game reselling channes here on youtube). It's surprising what these sometimes bring. Here in Germany Gamestop doesn't accept games without the original box, though.
I’m half way through the video so I don’t know if Scott has recommended this tip yet but using a hair dryer at a low heat on the sticker for a few seconds will make it easier to remove without ripping.
Polterpup make sure you do it from a good distance. If you’re removing it from paper like a Gameboy cardboard box it may brown the ink, if it’s a plastic game case you shouldn’t have anything to worry about but just keep aware of how hot the hair dryer is.
I love getting used games with stuff still in the case. Not just the manual but recipts, cheat codes etc. It has a history through a number of people. I love that kind of stuff
When I want to Japan, I was absolutely amazed at the condition the games were in second-hand game stores. Most look brand new, you can tell the shop resurfaces the discs, replaces the cases and gets them looking fresh again. Just makes it more annoying how little stores in the West care about the games they sell second-hand!
Japan also somehow still has tons of arcades. Like...HOW do arcades make so much money that they are on every city block? I swear the revenue made by arcades accounts for 10 percent of Japan's GDP.
@@jacobmonks3722 Despite how it might seem, Arcades do not make a lot of money. Most of the ones that can stay open are ones in big shopping malls. Many of the arcades have closed, and a bunch more are closing, even before the COVID pandemic happened. You just don't ever hear about them because they aren't the big ones.
9:15 People actually steal the empty cases at Gamestop, at least an employee in my Gamestop (RIP, closed now) told me that's why they have so many loose discs.
I should start a video game preservation society called "S.O.S.: Save Our Shovelware." I'm part way there. I have such classics as Petz: Catz 2 for Wii and The Cat in the Hat for GBA.
As a kid my step dad decided we were gonna remove all the cases from out games to save space. I told him “but what if these games are worth something some day” “what?” He replied “You think smash bro’s melee and super Mario sunshine will every be worth anything?”
@@ArtemyMalchuk I lucky know someone who wants to get rid of his gamecube and his entire collection, for just 100. This includes SM Sunshine, Double Dash, Melee, and Twilight Princess. 2 controllers and gameboy player included. He said "Only a sucker would buy this." suuuure.
@@airplane6417 It's a shame I'm not in the States. Still waiting for my copy of Shakedown Hawaii Wii to arrive due to postal services clogged. Ordered July 9 and still no dice.
I remember finding scott when he had 30k subs, I’m so glad he’s gotten as big as he has, his videos are such high quality and so enjoyable. Thank you Scott!
I actually own a retro vg shop. And watching Scott talk about how people do not take care of their stuff is the best. I've had people pull disc only games out of their pockets when they're selling it. And the amount of games that come in scratched to all hell is close to the 90 something perfect.
For my mobile friends or people who can't stop it to read the text: What is saving that five dollars going to do for you? More importantly what is it going to do for me? You could literally just wait four more days and the new game will get a price cut. Or just rent the game Or you could just borrow it from somebody. Like who can spend fifty-five dollars but not sixty? I get everybody has their own problems but it’s five dollars. If it’s really an issue you could definitely find a used copy online for six dollars off. Five dollars, really? Really? It’s five dollars. At least if it was fifty-eight dollars that would be such a huge rip I think I’d respect it more. Five dollars off feels like they’re trying to make it look like they’re giving you a deal. But are they really? You ever have those days where you have nothing else going on and you have to find something to be upset about? It’s one of those days. You know what? I’ve had it. Enough of these five dollars discounts. We either deserve a hell of a lot more or a hell of a lot less. Something needs to change. If games were fifty-six dollars used, things would be different. I’d only have four spare dollars at that rate. Which means less disposable income. And I HATE disposable income. Absolutely despise it. The quicker I get less deals, the more I can evaluate my self worth. You ever have those days where you have nothing else going on and you evaluate your self worth? It’s one of those days. I love days like these - Scott 09/20/2020
always wanted to figure out what kind of paper they use to make cover art, I've had some really bad used games, that I'd love to get some new cover art in.
One thing I like about used games is seeing the old save files, especially Pokemon games. It's fun to see what progress the previous user made and what they had on their team.
Oh, yup! It's specially awesome to try to outclass them. Sometimes I wonder why on earth would they sell their copies after putting in hundreds of hours... Sadly, it's mostly only old Nintendo cartridges now where you can see this.
i remembered my friend loaned me ocarina of time for the 64 and when he handed to me at school i noticed his name was written on it... i looked back at him and said "oh you're one of THOSE people" he said ..."yeah my mom made me do it to all my games..."
That kinda makes sense. If there's a large culture of loaning games, it might be useful label them. Although there is a correct and an incorrect way to label an N64 game. There's so much available plastic, why not write left or right of the sticker, or on the curved top part?
He only has had two thicknesses of the outline. The thick outline was introduced in his first gaming video from 7 Jan 2017 (Nintendo Switch Wish List). Then he introduced the thin outline during the video of 17 Dec 2017 (A Very Madden 08 Christmas). The thin outline appears after the theme plays. So the thick outline lasted about one year, and the thin outline has been with us for 2½ years so far. - His outlined videos has always been 1080p, so it has nothing to do with resolution at least.
Fun story: I had this kid that I knew in elementary school and we were pretty great friends but then he moved away. Life moved on and I basically forgot he existed. Fast forward almost 20 years later and I’m perusing my local retro game store where I buy a copy of Breath of Fire 2 on SNES as it was one of the few SNES RPGs I still needed at the time. As I’m checking the condition of the cart, I see on the back of it there’s a name scribbled on in magic marker. It was that friend I had oh so many years ago!
I actually ran into him out in public about a month later and he said he had just moved back to the area. I told him I got his old copy of Breath of Fire 2 and we started chatting again. Funny how video games can bring people back together sometimes.
Gaming brings the world together.
Wholesome! Serendipity at its finest!
Wow, that's such a cool coincidence! Hope both of you are good now
I can’t not like this
Thank you for sharing😊
Every time you asked "what happened here?!" The answer is "small children."
I dunno plenty of adults are dumb idiots who couldn't find their arse with both hands.
"WHY ARE THERE SKITTLES ON THE DISK"
@Andrew Mitchell they don't need to play them, they just need parents playing these games who don't pay attention to their children at home
Well I was one of those kids who would just bite cases all the time ferociously, and plasticy things in general, I still bite on my ds pen for no reason without noticing and im 19 8)
@@greenhowie Yep I have a friend who doesn't put disc in a case and yes not even in the case of the game he's swapping out of his system.
I actually own a Gamestop replacement case for Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts, of all games. It feels poetic.
Same tho
Yuck
I have one for tekken
Hey Clawfather
Same. Mine even looks like it got crushed
My local retro game store puts an easy-to-remove plastic wrap around all the games they sell, THEN put the stickers on. Makes it so you don’t have to worry about trying to get it off. It is a GODSEND.
Give the manager a high five
Same
Sometimes the gamestore doesn't make sure the games work sometimes and if it doesn't then they just don't anything about it.
Reason: they didn't test it.
Holy shit. I run a used game store. I would never ever make my employees do that, they would all quit immediately. God that sounds like a pain in the ass
@@TheScrubmuffin69congratulations on taking the welfare of your employees into consideration, even at the cost of perptuating dumb sticker placement
Hi Scott so fun fact I was a lead retail designer for Microsofts company store program for about seven years, so I can actually shed some light on those ridiculously large stickers. As you might imagine they do serve a purpose, every MSFT employee has a number associated with their employee ID that was tied to an internal tracking system that tracked how much hardware/software they were allowed to buy each year at the discounted price, the system was old and a pain in the ass to use. Moving on, so they were supposed to write their number on each piece of software they bought as basically a confirmation that they are agreeing not to do naughty things like go a sell the copy of office they just bought for $20 for the full retail price on ebay, same went for games and Gamestop corporate knows about these stickers and they are supposed to report any games they get with them (hint they don't all the time) But yeah they are big and obnoxious basically to just be obvious and serve to act as a pact with satan whenever an employee buys something at discount, also bonus fact the newer versions of these are designed to flake if you try and remove them so only tiny bits come off like a reverse lotto scratch ticket. Anyways hope you all enjoyed my little trip down memory lane.
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And I am Reggie, the president of Nintendo of America
@@wheezyultragaming8511 ahaha i did not think my comment would actually get that much attention, also I'm flattered that you think my title was fancy enough to warrant a "cool story bro" for real though it was a lower level contractor position :P
It's good to know companies don't trust their employees and when they choose to spend what disposable income on their employer's product, they then reward them with as much anti trust systems and torture contraptions as possible to make life a pain in the ass for all employee purchases, not just the resellers! Ah it feels great being tortured by my own place of employment for bring given the honour for working for them!
I love Scott's brand of physical comedy where he clearly decided "These are the games and cases I'm fine with ruining" before recording, then doesn't hold back in ruining those things in the funniest ways.
My guess for this is he bought a bunch of super cheap pre-owned games from random places for this video
@@KaRaTeLoRd11PS3 i mean its not unlike scott to sacrifice super expensive things for his vids. he spent a fortune on that virtual boy vid, and on his second channel in an episode he mentions how he literally almost bought a real therapist bed (furniture aint cheap) for the mario tennis ultra smash video till he realised his couch would do the trick, conveniently. + the oh so famous “i hope i got that on cameraaaaaa-“ for that 2ds xl breaking proves he takes a lot of risks with his gags too.
Or maybe you’re right and he bought a ton of crap from the dollar store idk, its just that scott is so devoted to his channel with no profit in return the sheer extent of his work must be realised!!
@@juice3287 I unironically have a "therapist bed" (a chase) they are nice.
@@swampdonkey1567 ooooh nice why did you get one? also is it purple
@@juice3287 did you happen to previously own a purple therapist bed?
Scott looks so disturbed in the thumbnail by used games. I love it.
Oh yeah, it’s you
@@jessthebenjamin758 -andus-
I KNEW you watched Scott! I’ve seen you say stuff in your videos that I swore I saw in one of his vids. Love your content btw
Give this guy some more subs!
Look at the edge
Funnily enough about other making their own box art whenever an old neighbor moved away and gave me his son's old PS2 games, god bless his heart, he took old movie cases he had and flipped the cover then made really detailed sketches of them. Lego Star Wars had a full on sharpie sketch of Lego Vader. It's nice to look at sometimes and wonder what inspired him to do it.
Stuff like that Is priceless that's so cool I wish to find something like that someday
“Man rants about stickers for 13 minutes”
And 13 seconds
And 0 hours
Im with him though. I wish he spent twice the time on it! I hate it so much
And 0 days
You know what's bullshit? Stickers.
You haven't seen used games untill you pick up your copy of The Bee Movie The Game with fake box-art and the game defaulting to Spanish.
Dang, did that happen to you
@@CoolerMike Yep
For me it was getting New Super Mario Bros U and it wasn't loading even when it had no scratches or marks on it but it wasn't even used.
Well, at least you get to know Spanish. Make sure to put Spanish as one of life long objective to learn. Remember to jot it down. Hopefully if you have enough HP by then.
@@tr1bes Thanks, that was very insightful. Will do.
As a person who only had enough money for used gamestop games, the art they used on the boxes is nostalgic to me
I don't know weather I should sympathize for you that you had to collect those, or be jealous that you can tolerate those games.
As a person who likes KD and Halo:Reach. 1:39 hurt my eyes.
@@cristianvelasquez5335 You should sympathize with your grammar
Same, its one of the reasons why I remember my copy of mortal kombat armegeddon on ps2, still use it for my basement
Same
"Why are there so many older games with no box art"
One word: Blockbuster
I have a copy of Wii Fit in a box labelled “Wii-Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” from Blockbuster.
First of all, why is there so much shovelware on the Wii? Second of all, why waste time getting a box at all if you’re not gonna put the right game on it?
@@neutralamity former Blockbuster employee here. Sometimes we would sell games in sleeves and a customer would ask for a case when they were paying, so I would just grab whatever case was laying around if they didn't mind. Believe it or not sometimes printing those boxes could be a bitch.
too young for this to relate to me what does it mean
@@XRelays when people rented games from blockbuster or any other rental company they didn't come in their box art, so if they would never return the game they would own it without the box art. Also if they ended up selling the games used most of the time they didn't come with box art.
@@adomingo2 ohhhh thank you that makes a lot more sense now
Hi, ex gamestop employee here to offer context!
A lot of the times we just ran out of cases. Sure, GameStop may send us generic cases by the bulk, but other times when we get trades that are just discs or cartridges or what have you that exceeds the amount of cases we had we had to make due. That baseball sticker? Yeah that case came from a salvaged case whose game was unsalvageable and hey! A case! As for cleanliness, the stores I worked at were particularly busy. It becomes unfeasible when GameStop only has one or two people and the store at a time to vigorously clean everything. for me what it generally boiled down to was yo this is gross I'm not buying it from you.
As for the cheap plastic cases (that smell like burnt rubber as soon as you open the box)? Money. GameStop is cheap and will go to *any lengths to save a penny.*
Hope that helped!
But why do you throw out the DS cases?
@@liamsgreatbitgaming That wound still hurts.
Animals! Wait, that's offensive to animals. Don't worry former Games on a Shelf employee, I'm talking about corporate (or whoever implemented that policy). What really baffles me is that they claimed it was to save space, but the DS display case honestly took up enough space to house several shelves of games *in cases!* WTF? 🤔😑
I got Yoshi's Wooly World in a black DVD case with GameStop artwork, but got a 99 cent Wii game (in a translucent green Xbox 360 case), swapped the cases and printed the box art, so my collection is... unique.
I did get some blank yellow DVD cases and use them for the Wii Lego games with the yellow spine art, those look classy. 👌
Do, you have Battle Toads??
Do, you have Battle Toads??
I used to know somebody who, upon buying a new game, would put the disc in a paper wallet, bin the manual and case, cut the front artwork off, bin the rest and put the front artwork on his wall like a poster. He deserves his spot in hell.
I knew a guy who did that with his CD's. He had great taste in music, and an amazing album collection, but.......ugh. Why?
Dude...i got so fricking mad just reading this. I was honestly surprised how much that got me
What a psycho. I get it if a young kid would do that given some don't know better, but a grown individual? That's just inhuman! If stuff like that was criminalized, he'd be serving a life sentence!!
yeah that guy's in jail now
I used to trade loose DS cartridges into GameStop and keep the cases.
Several of Scott's used games were harmed during the making of this video. F.
F.
HOW DID THEY LOSE THE BOX ART??
F
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@@Real_Furious "vail" and "awesome videos" in the same sentence, especially coming from an internet user? i could never imagine this happening
Imagine being Kaden or Kirsten and seeing Scott holding up your copy of your favorite game.
its Kearstin. i wrote my name in my games because back in the 90s, friends would borrow games and to keep track, we sharpie marked out names on everything. i haven’t watched it but i’m reading about it… i’m afraid to watch… from what i hear, he destroyed it… and it destroyed ME 😢
@@kaybby0910 Scott did not destroy your Pokémon Snap copy in this video. As far as I'm aware he's never destroyed anything that had writing or anything else personal.
@@kaybby0910 wait holy hell is it really you? Wow.
@@Thoomas2001 you have no idea how relieved I am to hear that. That’s the whole reason why I could never watch the video because of what people were telling me. I heard it was an honor to have a game featured in one of his videos and at first I was like holy shit that’s amazing my game is famous! But then I was fed misinformation that led me to believe false facts…but yes, that was, indeed my original copy of Pokémon Snap for the N64 with my 9 year old written name on it, and I regret nothing 😎 (btw, I’m 32 now and yes… I still game like it’s 1999 🤣)
@@lugnut59 correct. I’m the face behind the cartridge..haha
I like my used games the best when theres no box art, it just has the Gamestop logo and it costs $2
Hi cody
I like the ones that try to make their own box out of cardboard
*they cost $1.50 most of the
Time*
Hello Satan
That's always fun to see, just your game with a $2 price tag
Love your videos bud
Scott: How do you lose the box art?
My little siblings: *_my goals are beyond your understanding_*
*SOME WOULD SAY IM THE REVERSE*
Every damn time that happens to me!!!
And that's why I ALWAYS make sure to check for authenticity when buying secondhand (or even third or fourthhand) games. Luckily, I've gotten relatively lucky with avoiding stickers and residue though.
Colin Roberts is it possible to learn this power?
I, unfortunately, lost one boxart to rubbing alcohol. Weep
New Title: Scott breaking games with a saw for 13 minutes
Don’t worry, it was sonic ‘06 it deserved it
Breaking games
Imagination going wild
"Hey y'all scott here, bitch!"
i accidentally clicked onto this, went 'oh i already watched this episode', and then proceeded to watch the entire thing again. God i love scott
I do that all the time lol
"Why buy a game for 60$ when you can buy it for 55$?
I can think of a few reasons"
*writes a whole book*
That’s why we love scott
😂😂😂
“How does this happen?!”
*causes this phenomenon*
The Eric Andre Effect
Imagine the people who traded in games and end up seeing Scott the Woz with their old property. Like, "Hey, I had that!"
And then they scream in horror when he destroys it
@@freakfoxvevo7915 I'm sure they were so traumatized when he destroyed their unwanted copy of Sonic '06
@@twistedwizard9100 its sonic 06. It should have been buried in a desert to liquidate unsold assets.
What's et for Atari 2600?
@@OrkishEngineering sonic 06 is the best sonic game that ends in "06"
Change my mind
@@quandarioustoddricioushorn9292 based.
Most interesting used game I own is Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the XBox 360. Found it at a local thrift store in a Fifa Soccer 09 case. The back is so scratched that there's a cutscene that it always crashes during that can be avoided by skipping it, and the floor disappears for a portion of one level, and if you die there the game crashes, but then you reload your save and its back to normal. 10/10 would buy again
Ahh digital games, where you can still buy 2 year old games for full price.
Not if you use g2a ;)
Never happened to me, steam tends to have good discounts and prices.
@@bloomallcaps i really think he's talking about nintendo
@@bloomallcaps Its literally in this video. He shows the Eshop and it has Diablo 3 full priced.
Nintendo all of a sudden
Two things put me off of Gamestop forever:
-Bought a "new" copy of Skyrim back in 2012. Dude gave me a case that wasn't shrinkwrapped, it had been opened. He assured me it was fine. That disc never made it past the title screen. It even looked worn down a bit, but I was younger and didn't know any better.
-Bought a used game because it had the case. The dude took the disc out of the case, popped it into one of those shitty CD envelopes, and gave it to me. We kind of got into an argument about the case. He said the store needed it, so I asked for at least the game art slip, but he refused, so I immediately returned the game to him. We annoyed the shit out of each other, I'm sure.
Honestly if that second scenario happened to me I'd do the exact same thing.
I bought the fucking game, and I even went against my principles to get it at Gamestop- no less: I deserve the game in a damn case, even the crappy stock black ones with the Gamestop cartoon art and the name of the game written in sharpie
I used to work at a Gamestop, and it is true, we would take the disc out of the display case so it wouldn't be stolen off the shelf.
I once bought a used copy of smash for Wii U and it was just a blu ray disc with the smash disc art on it -_- on the bright side they did give me a new copy as a replacement
So for those “new” games that aren’t sealed to avoid someone stealing a whole game they open one, set the disc aside and use the case for a display and it is supposed to be the last new copy sold, however speaking as someone who had friends who worked for Gamestop those loose disc “new” games would frequently go home with employees if they had plenty of new copies in stock, they’d play it for a day or two then bring it back and charge someone $60 for a game that had been played before.
See thats the problem, you bought skyrim.
Disclaimer: *Several games were hurt in the making of this video*
like 100 lol
They can’t fell pain though so it’s not too bad.
10:59
The delivery on the minced garlic line is so panicked and fearful and I love it
*"A used copy of Battlefield Bad Company 2 was harmed during the production of this video"*
Harmed? it was murdered.
Hopefully with editing magic he replaced it with some crap disc since you never see the artwork side when he cuts it.
@@HerdULiekManwichs Or used an empty disc with a printed out label.
good, that game sucks.
@@djswagmaster... bruh
Ordering used games from Gamestop is the equivalent of Russian Roulette.
I ordered 4 PS4 games and 1 Gamecube game from Gamestop over the summer and the only one that came with the case and manual was the Gamecube game
I ordered San Andreas for the 360 for like 25 dollars and it didn't even work. Safe to say I never ordered anything from Gamestop's website ever again. When I bought my Xbox One I bought a used copy of Battlefield 4 for 15 dollars in mint condition.
@@breakfastscrub At least that box is more one of a kind.
@@scramblesthedeathdealer the only bad part about it was the owner put a sticker with their name on it on the INSIDE of the cover but at least it's not visible
Yeah when they never removed the bullet
7:18 Imagine being Kaden and getting called out by Scott himself
My name's Kaden, I'm not even mad, he published this on my birthday and I've never felt more alive
imagine being the person who wrote their name on any of scott's used games and being called out by scott.
honestly, i'd be honored.
I jumped when I heard him say my name
@de_Ultimate how's it a coincidence?, The name or birthday?
I was horrified and somewhat honoured
To be fair, when you have younger siblings, you'd be surprised at how many times they mess with the boxes that hold the games. I've lost so many covers to this over the years
as a younger sibling. yeah we beat the shit out of game cases
The answer to most of his questions is: kids.
My dog chewed my Cars Race-o-Rama Wii case when I was younger. Luckily, the disc survived.
@@Xpwnxage when I was a kid kid I never really got to do this because we bought most of our games loose
But that doesn't stop me from having multiple milk cartons with wii games
@@dummy3467 thank god the disc survived
The old Game Stop cases look like stills from the Nutshack
It's the nutshack
Its the nutshack
It’s the nutshack
It’s the nutshack
It's the nutshack
I once got a used copy of Toy Story Mania on the Wii that had a ton of bite marks on the case, ripped up plastic cover and Tabasco stains on the disc. Wish I knew the story behind THAT
Did they try to eat the disk?
How was that even allowed to be returned? lmao
You could probably sum up that story in one word. Children.
You sure that was Tabasco?
Kid who owned it was hungry; I should know, I was the kid who ate the case
"...Or they can give their CEO's 4 more dollars!"
Never has a truer statement been said.
It's really more likely that the shareholders are the ones raking in the money. CEOs usually have relatively fixed salaries.
Well if it was Nintendo before 2015 this statement would be wrong
“In an bold new move, Scott gets political”
@@ungratefulmango Fixed salaries of millions a year -_-
I once bought Battlefield 3 for the PS3 on Facebook Marketplace or some shit like that. The guy just used a random stock photo from the internet so I got the game in a cracked Blu-Ray case with a printed out pixelated af box art. Eventually I sold my PS3, and with that most of the games. When the guy at the thrift store looked through the games he picked up BF3 and looked at me like "Wtf is this?". I just shrugged and told him "That's how I got it myself. I've no idea."
I have a feeling he didn't give you much for that.
@@pheilimobrien6634 I can't remember how much exactly I got for it, but considering at this point BF Hardline, if not even BF1 was already out it didn't matter to much anyways lol
@@TheMarslMcFly Yeah, I kinda assumed around that time is when you sold it.
As a collector, this episode brought ugly tears to my eyes.
It's truly disgusting, how they humiliates their games
Try being a collector that had to sell everything because life......emulation and pandoras box only for me now.....huge sigh....
😢😢😢
@TheLegendkiller ....yeah
Yup... im shook!
The fact he fit in that garbage can was impressive
He was made to be in the trash
He is the trash
Bruh
It’s Scott he is a god
I died at the “there’s something wrong with my wario ware” part
5:39 Another good moment
9:03 is another great moment
I remember ordering a used copy of Pokemon Sword off Amazon like a month after it came out, and when it came it the box looked like it was falling apart and the plastic holding the box together just snapped down the middle of the spine. Game worked at least but it leaves me wondering how that just happens.
Probably threw it in a blender. Or their dog chewed it.
That's why Gamestop is so great! Even their New Games are Used! Cause they're already open... :(
This comment bout to get likes
I never knew why they did that, it should be illegal!
Not here in Canada. Although we have EB games instead of GameStop. It’s GameStop but actually worth giving a shit about.
@@unnameablename eb is own by gamestop I believe
spartanx darth yeah, but it’s better than actual GameStop.
When I was in middle school I wrote a hand written letter to the CEO of gamestop asking him to use stickers that were easier to peel off and and he actually responded with a hand written letter saying they would look into it, a $20 gift card, and then about a month or two later I noticed Gamestop started using better stickers.
Good job on making a positive impact on society
TotoroA 101 im serious though
TotoroA 101 we had to write a letter to someone of importance for an english assignment
Him: I am not the messiah!
Us: HE IS THE MESSIAH!!
😁
Physical vs digital games - 5 minutes
Player's choice - 12 minutes
Game collecting - 26 minutes
Art of box art - 18 minutes
Game packaging - 45 minutes
Used games - 13 minutes
how was listening to someone talk about game boxes for 2 hours so entertaining
I don't know, but I want more already.
@TheGamingCasanova I mean, if you don't like it, why are you here?
Scott could talk about games that define virginity for 5 hours and I would watch it
TheGamingCasanova you have bad taste and I don’t like you now
Shoo shoo
Thegamingcasanova is probably a hater he comments on all of scotts vids and all they are is just hate comments he probably has his notifications on just so he can know when to write them
Soon-to-be former GameStop employee here! In terms of the generic cases having a custom size, it's likely due to the fact that we sometimes use actual PS4/Xbox One cases that become extras once the game has been sold. (Still not exactly sure how that happens, though.) In any case, the cover art that's printed can fit in those cases, as well as the black generic ones that we get sent in.
As for not cleaning games, we really aren't trained in doing it, nor do we have proper equipment for disc cleaning and/or resurfacing. I've seen retro game stores that have this equipment, though, which really makes me want to support them more than a place like GameStop. Resurfacing machines are apparently pretty pricey, but they definitely make it worth it, seeing as customers get the reassurance that their disc will be in the best condition it can possibly be in. I mean, they resurfaced my copy of Yu-Gi-Oh! on the PS1 _three times_ before letting me have it!
(Also, the single game I was willing to purchase in a generic case was, of course, Chibi-Robo Zip Lash. I'm still waiting for my local Walmart to lower the price on the in-box version with the Amiibo, namely since the box has been tattered to no end since it's been there since launch. It's still _forty dollars_ and supposedly on clearance.
Who’s working at GameStop in 2022😂
@@Supermoneygang12people who need money
For those curious, here is Scott's Few Reasons™:
• What is saving that five dollars going to do for you?
• More importantly what is it going to do for me?
• You could literally just wait four more days and the new game will get a price cut.
• Or just rent the game.
• Or you could just borrow it from somebody.
• Like who can spend fifty-five dollars but not sixty?
• I get everybody has their own problems but it's five dollars.
• If it's really an issue you could definitely find a used copy only for six dollars off.
• Five dollars, really?
• Really?
• It's five dollars.
• At least if it was fifty-eight dollars that would be such a huge rip I think I'd respect it more.
• Five dollars off feels like they're trying to make it look like they're giving you a deal.
• But are they really?
• You ever have those days where you have nothing else going on and you have to find something to be upset about?
• It's one of those days.
• You know what?
• I've had it.
• Enough of these five dollars discounts.
• We either deserve a hell of a lot more or a hell of a lot less.
• Something needs to change.
• If games were fifty-six dollars used, things would be different.
• I'd only have four spare dollars at that rate.
• Which means less disposable income.
• And I HATE disposable income.
• Absolutely despise it.
• The quicker I get less deals, the more I can evaluate my self worth.
• You ever have those days where you have nothing else going on and you evaluate your self worth?
• It's one of those days.
• I love days like these.
Thanks, you saved me a lot of time by trying to pause the video over and over again just to read it :D
I need that $5 for my next brief meal. Ah, that really set the hunger aside. Time to buy more $55 used games. I got $5 to spare again. Hey McDonalds, I see you in a jiffy.
Wait, $70 games. I wonder how Gamestop going to put the price on used game on it. I think it's $64.99. Hey, by then I got $5.01. Yay, more unhealthy fast food to get.
"The game case is starting to get chapped. Look at it. It looks dehydrated"
That was resin, Scott.
You mean dehydrated grapes? :)
I always took care of my games. But how do some discs get so many scratches, marks and dirt on them.. I can't imagine why people just toss their stuff around or leave it where it's prone to get damaged. And yes, i hated those stickers that left some residue on the game case.. 😕
I went to a tag sale the other day and they just had a copy of Wii Sports without a case lying on their driveway.
AcidGlow or worse on the art itself yes it was a thing once.
Bruh I bought a Pokemon mystery dungeon game with all of the manuals and the box and stuff but the cartridge was so dirty and looked really discoloured in loads of places and just looked gross, thankfully it works. But seriously how do you take care of a 3ds cartridge so badly?
I too, am a very good caretaker of video games. If there is no box to a DS game I have f**king aneurysm.
@@funjalm Yeah, when I was young I kept all my discs on a spindel and they would get scratched to hell, some became even became unplayable like my Pitfall lost expedition or Kingdom Hearts 1.
I just read everything where he said "why buy a $60 game when you can buy it used for $55" and I have no regrets
”OH GOD, THE STICKERS!”
This… this resonates with me. I swear my bad childhood gave me less PTSD symptoms than the cannot-get-it-off-without-dynamite (seriously, isopropyl alcohol and acetone didn’t work) glue residue on my used copy of FFXII: The Zodiac Age. When on the shelf, it always _sticks to the game next to it_ so now my FFXV that I bought new ALSO HAS GLUE ON IT. AAAAAAAAAGH!
For the 1.27 people who are interested: most of the problems with stickers are due to them being there for a long time. The glue will eventually dry up a bit, going from ”sticky but easy to peel” to ”oh god get it off of me HELP”. Some stores use shitty stickers, but basically no sticker will come off easily if it’s been there for years.
I have so many words for the wise guy who ruined such a treasure. Granted, my copy of the original FFXII waw pretty scratched up. Certain cinematics froze as did the start-up menu. Some people need to learn to treat stuff well.
I've never come across a sticker that I haven't been able to take off. You just need to slow the fuck down, take it one millimetre at a time.. no, even less than that, literally creep that sticker off as slow as humanly possible. They all come off without tearing and with minimal residue.
Heat it up with a hair dryer. Peel it flat along the surface like a sideways U, don't pull it away from the surface. Use WD40 on a rag to dissolve the residue, and a clean one to wipe it away.
I get what you mean by the glue transfer, because of that I tend to put them in a plastic bag before putting them on the shelf
Goodbye, clean looking used copy of Mario Kart Double Dash...
“I found Dig Dug!” -Scott the Woz 2020
the most funniest thing I've ever heard imo.
He dug dug it up from the trash
“You’d figure they would be using bulletproof paper”
HELP THERE IS A MAN IN MY ROOM WITH A GUN, PROTECT ME GEIST!
*gets shot*
Should have used warioland 4
PRoTect me MArio AlL STarS NOOOO NoT all STars!
This sounded like such a scott bit that I thought it was a legit scott bit
That..would’ve been a really funny bit
*Dogmaso*
_Dogmaso_
This episode is one of my favourites. I love how quotable it is.
"There's something wrong with my warioware"
"the next person who owns this is going to have the same questions i have!"
that's exactly what I was thinking when you pulled out the saw!
lol
“What,did ya spill like water on your game and try drying it off with a saw?” I started laughing so hard
Especially since it's a copy of Sonic '06
caught me way off guard
The fact that he went out and got a saw and what I'm assuming is a second copy of Sonic 06 for a quick second scene makes it even better.
As a movie collector, I agree with everything single thing he's said
Exactly, it's like second hand sellers go out of their damn way to make sure YOU the customer you bought that copy of the Star Wars Holiday from Big Al's movie and game emporium. I've adopted many techniques for removing various vile stickers and inks from boxes and carts. For carts, Neverdull gets rid of most ink and markers. For my Laserdisc and VHS sleeves, just plain patience and very slow removal. And if all has failed, ebay has good deals on boxes and many art repros.
Isopropyl Alcohol, my friend
As someone who collectects movies and games I agree times two
@@NotSantana no one cares
yoyo ma
For the online pass game at the 12:00 mark, it goes back even earlier than the PS3 days. I remember when my uncle got me Phantasy Star Online (used) for the Dreamcast, it required an online pass (which was already used), so I could only play the damn thing offline solo and didn't get very far..
"What did you spill water on your game and then try to dry it off with a saw?" 5:41
Scott's so funny I'm glad my friend recommended his channel, I can't stop bingeing!
Sonic 06 sucks! Saw it! Saw it! Saw it!
One time I bought a used game at GameStop, and I watched them take out the actual box art and put in their GameStop branded box art.
Your comment made me femur breaker scream out loud
That's a war crime
Did you tell them anything as they were doing it?
I got a used game at gamestop few months ago and the game didn't even work.
Same here, except I didn't see them do it. Noticed when I got home. Last time I bought anything from gamestop.
I love how Scott basically destroys some of his games just for 5 second clips lol
Or entire systems
@Terry Bogard Yeah I think this is correct. For example he bought that mystery box collection and I am sure he has doubles if not more of the same games that he uses to destroy in these scenes. He is a real collector, he would not destroy a game if he only had 1 copy of it.
or a laptop
@@Foril89 yeah. Also with the episode where he is hitting a ps2 with a hammer in the consoles that won't die vid. He probably had another one and the one used in the vid was an already broken system.
It’s like Angry Video Game Nerd destroying games but in a relaxed tone
Personally, I love getting used games with names on them. Like the rental branding, it's just a little part of that specific game's history that makes it just a little more special. Sometimes it's just a standard name, sometimes it's my used copy of DKC that has "BEANS" written in big bold letters on the back. I like to imagine it was signed by one of the game's composers (Robin Beanland), as highly unlikely a scenario as that may be lol.
9:04 Was the best reenactment of how I feel some people treat their game disks I've ever seen.
This was me when i was 8 or 9.
“How is disc scratched? I barely touch it!”
Also me:
My friend still owes me a new copy of new super Mario bros u
When he pulled out the scissors I DIED. It was perfect.
The hammer nearly destroyed me.
Funny shit
Alternate title: Scott destroys his games for 13 minutes
Also, with the subtitle, Scott slowly revealing himself a Monster Hunter fan.
MJFeehan *his trash games
Alternative title: Scott destroys game cases for 13 minutes
Scott Destroys Game Packaging Part 2
TO SHOW YOU THE POWER OF WATER, I SAWED THIS SONIC 06 IN HALF!
He puts so much work into a bit that lasts like one to two seconds and I love the detail
Liklihood is they didn't "lose" the box art, it was probably thrown out for being water damaged or whatever. Just...thought I'd mention that
As much sense as this makes thinking they lost is much more funny
There is also the possibility where the box art had a poster or something similar on the back and the person wanted to keep it.
i actually managed to lose the box art once. it was a wii u game w=back when the club nintendo things were printed on the inside of the art and i wanted to see what it was. i accidentally forgot to put it back in the case then my mom dead ass threw it away. i found the game used for like $5 and harvested it for parts to have the game whole again. my friend took the naked disk and i have a random blue dvd case now
I've lost box art before. No idea how. I must have taken it out to look at or something. I have a box right now with no box art.
Or the one bringing it into the store might have just sold the original box on ebay (I've seen videos about this on some retro game reselling channes here on youtube). It's surprising what these sometimes bring. Here in Germany Gamestop doesn't accept games without the original box, though.
Scott the Woz is my sleep paralysis demon. He sits on the edge of my bed and rants about the Wii U
I’m half way through the video so I don’t know if Scott has recommended this tip yet but using a hair dryer at a low heat on the sticker for a few seconds will make it easier to remove without ripping.
ill try this
Polterpup make sure you do it from a good distance. If you’re removing it from paper like a Gameboy cardboard box it may brown the ink, if it’s a plastic game case you shouldn’t have anything to worry about but just keep aware of how hot the hair dryer is.
@@KonohaRamenNoodles ok noted
Yeah this works like magic, I do it all the time when peeling labels off garage sale crap. Any source of hot air will work really (ie: heater vents)
After years and years of struggling to get stubborn stickers off of my used game cases, I wish someone had told me about this tip.
I love getting used games with stuff still in the case. Not just the manual but recipts, cheat codes etc. It has a history through a number of people. I love that kind of stuff
When I want to Japan, I was absolutely amazed at the condition the games were in second-hand game stores. Most look brand new, you can tell the shop resurfaces the discs, replaces the cases and gets them looking fresh again. Just makes it more annoying how little stores in the West care about the games they sell second-hand!
Japan always gets all the good stuff. Like, ALL the good stuff.
Japan also somehow still has tons of arcades. Like...HOW do arcades make so much money that they are on every city block? I swear the revenue made by arcades accounts for 10 percent of Japan's GDP.
If there's one thing that's 99% assured when buying from a seller in Japan. They're guaranteed to be complete, and often in reasonable prices.
@@jacobmonks3722 Japanese arcades are just Pachinko and rhythm games these days.
@@jacobmonks3722 Despite how it might seem, Arcades do not make a lot of money. Most of the ones that can stay open are ones in big shopping malls. Many of the arcades have closed, and a bunch more are closing, even before the COVID pandemic happened. You just don't ever hear about them because they aren't the big ones.
"There's something wrong with my WarioWare..."
That killed me.
“Spill water on your case and dry it off with a saw?” 😂😂
Dude I was dying
This is a really consistently funny video all the way through. Thank you Scott
"it's rated E1 0+" This made me laugh more than I was expecting.
That's funny, because I own a gamestop game rated E 10.
@@dianaloayzat4975 I guess you have to be exactly 10 to play it then instead of 10 or older
9:15 People actually steal the empty cases at Gamestop, at least an employee in my Gamestop (RIP, closed now) told me that's why they have so many loose discs.
That was probably Scott trying to supplement for all the ruined cases he keeps getting off used games
The amount of abuse scott's games went through this video physically hurt me
But admit that that sonic 06 game got what it deserved.
be lucky it actually wasn’t one of yours, well that you’re well aware of (i owned the Pokémon Snap)
This is probably the perfect Scott video, if not the best one
Scott: we have to preserve games
Also Scott: drys game cases with a saw
You don’t?
The friction from the saw blade should generate enough heat to dry it off before you get all the way through.
I should start a video game preservation society called "S.O.S.: Save Our Shovelware."
I'm part way there. I have such classics as Petz: Catz 2 for Wii and The Cat in the Hat for GBA.
@@scramblesthedeathdealer Doing god's work
He really is loving showing off his monster hunter cases
As a kid my step dad decided we were gonna remove all the cases from out games to save space. I told him “but what if these games are worth something some day”
“what?” He replied “You think smash bro’s melee and super Mario sunshine will every be worth anything?”
No wisdom had he, indeed. I, for now, was only able to get a japanese copy of Sunshine, because English versions from NA and Europe are up at... $50?
@@ArtemyMalchuk I lucky know someone who wants to get rid of his gamecube and his entire collection, for just 100. This includes SM Sunshine, Double Dash, Melee, and Twilight Princess. 2 controllers and gameboy player included. He said "Only a sucker would buy this." suuuure.
@@airplane6417 It's a shame I'm not in the States. Still waiting for my copy of Shakedown Hawaii Wii to arrive due to postal services clogged. Ordered July 9 and still no dice.
@@airplane6417 Yeeeeah... (in Top Hat Gaming Man's voice)
@@ArtemyMalchuk Oh yeah, its all coming together.
This just feels like Scott’s perfect excuse to let out his frustration on games he doesn’t like
This is my favorite episode in a long time. I keep rewatching it.
It's my favorite period.
@@Kaitou1412Fangirl before this being my favorite episode, it was ga.e controllers for Me
Mr. Woz please have my gamer kids
No
No
No
Same 👁️👄👁️
Hell to the no
I remember finding scott when he had 30k subs, I’m so glad he’s gotten as big as he has, his videos are such high quality and so enjoyable. Thank you Scott!
Almost everyone found Scott at 30k, I'm starting to think y'all lied
lol i found about him like a month agi
I think Scott had 100-200K subs when I found his videos. Now he's at 1.2M subs! Well deserved!
I found him at 600k
I think I found him at a couple 100 thousands, don't eemember what exactly
I actually own a retro vg shop. And watching Scott talk about how people do not take care of their stuff is the best. I've had people pull disc only games out of their pockets when they're selling it. And the amount of games that come in scratched to all hell is close to the 90 something perfect.
Alternate title: Scott Vents About His Used Woes for 13 Minutes
For my mobile friends or people who can't stop it to read the text:
What is saving that five dollars going to do for you?
More importantly what is it going to do for me?
You could literally just wait four more days and the new game will get a price cut.
Or just rent the game
Or you could just borrow it from somebody.
Like who can spend fifty-five dollars but not sixty?
I get everybody has their own problems but it’s five dollars.
If it’s really an issue you could definitely find a used copy online for six dollars off.
Five dollars, really?
Really?
It’s five dollars.
At least if it was fifty-eight dollars that would be such a huge rip I think I’d respect it more.
Five dollars off feels like they’re trying to make it look like they’re giving you a deal.
But are they really?
You ever have those days where you have nothing else going on and you have to find something to be upset about?
It’s one of those days.
You know what?
I’ve had it.
Enough of these five dollars discounts.
We either deserve a hell of a lot more or a hell of a lot less.
Something needs to change.
If games were fifty-six dollars used, things would be different.
I’d only have four spare dollars at that rate.
Which means less disposable income.
And I HATE disposable income.
Absolutely despise it.
The quicker I get less deals, the more I can evaluate my self worth.
You ever have those days where you have nothing else going on and you evaluate your self worth?
It’s one of those days.
I love days like these
- Scott 09/20/2020
Sora Sora it's like a poem
i literally posted a comment about the reasons like seconds before i saw this
😃🔫☠️
@@Maybe1911_. lmao fr
Mood
This man is tearing the blind folds off of our eyes and making us realize the truth...
It’s so heartbreaking
I just realized that he's probably on his hands and knees for most of these shots
Cris cross is funnier for me to imagine
I mean you’re probably right but I like to imagine his disembodied floating hands doing things slightly above ground level
always wanted to figure out what kind of paper they use to make cover art, I've had some really bad used games, that I'd love to get some new cover art in.
One thing I like about used games is seeing the old save files, especially Pokemon games. It's fun to see what progress the previous user made and what they had on their team.
Oh, yup! It's specially awesome to try to outclass them. Sometimes I wonder why on earth would they sell their copies after putting in hundreds of hours... Sadly, it's mostly only old Nintendo cartridges now where you can see this.
usually i'd keep the old save files, especially if they already beat the game
That was the case with my pokemon emerald cartridge, they just kinda quit the game at the beginning of it like why would you sell your game so early?
@@aspol12 Maybe they were starting over and lost motivation? Just spitballing here.
Chief Petty Officer Denim maybe
“What did you spill water on your game and tried to dry it off with a saw?”
- Scott Wozniak 2020
4:01 i love how the free just slides in, it’s so gentle
Finally somebody said it, THANK YOU.
Scott: Rants about how abused used games are for 15 minutes
Also Scott: abuses his games with damaging chemicals and saws for 15 minutes
Also Scott: Destroys his 2DS XL for the sake of a joke (Mario Kart 7)
@@skibot9974 I feel like my 2DS XL would cry if it saw that episode.
@@dianaloayzat4975 i felt horrified. I know Scott has the Black and Orange Ones but he destroyed the PURPLE one. Thats a sin in my eye
@@skibot9974 It was already non-functioning if that means anything.
@@BacchaeOphanim it was?
i remembered my friend loaned me ocarina of time for the 64 and when he handed to me at school i noticed his name was written on it... i looked back at him and said "oh you're one of THOSE people" he said ..."yeah my mom made me do it to all my games..."
That kinda makes sense. If there's a large culture of loaning games, it might be useful label them. Although there is a correct and an incorrect way to label an N64 game. There's so much available plastic, why not write left or right of the sticker, or on the curved top part?
@@ungratefulmango if you can clean off the name with Mr. Clean then a thief could easily do that
The blue outline is getting smaller by the day
He only has had two thicknesses of the outline. The thick outline was introduced in his first gaming video from 7 Jan 2017 (Nintendo Switch Wish List). Then he introduced the thin outline during the video of 17 Dec 2017 (A Very Madden 08 Christmas). The thin outline appears after the theme plays. So the thick outline lasted about one year, and the thin outline has been with us for 2½ years so far. - His outlined videos has always been 1080p, so it has nothing to do with resolution at least.
@@Liggliluff why do you know this
@@GiaCringe you DARE question the works of a woz fan?!?!?
@@Liggliluff HOLY SHIT GO OUTSIDE FOR ONCE
Liggliluff you are like a Woz Curator
3:43 Aw yes, my favorite PS2 game: *HELP*
It's a classic
Don't forget the amazing sequel! THEY'RE COMING!
@@brookagainstthemachine and also I’M GONNA DIE!
"We eat without socks on"
Hey Scott, speak for yourself, Im not THAT disgusting.
Yeah same
No joke that'd gross me out
GUESS WHAT I'M DOING RIGHT NOW
@@comskii Sinning?
I actually eat without my socks on because I put them on my hands to protect from the food.
@bobo So you're inside the oven?? O_O
"We have sticky chairs and eat without socks on"
Me: *looks at feet, puts down microwave pizza, hangs head in shame*
But do you have sticky chairs though?
@@balfanghellfire No I'm good on that front XD
Scott: Why don't they replace broken cases?
Also Scott: How is this in a different case with the manual?
I always find it interesting when I buy a used game. I like to fiddle through the game before I wipe it to see how the last person played the game
_Scott The Woz talks about used games_
*Gamestop sales increase by 400%*
Hi
Hi there, Justin!
oh hey justin y
Oh it's Justin cool
Wow the real one 😳