I Spent $200 On Old Games At GameStop And...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- I'll just spoil it for you here. This was a downright miserable experience... and I'm totally going to do it again.
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Seen a few comments on these and want to echo the sentiment: it'd be really cool to see a video of a haul from a small / local game shop to see what you can find. Or maybe an interview with a small / local shop owner on the retro game market.
GTA 4 was seriously ahead of its time. It’s really blurry on FPS boost but it is still great to play in 60 FPS. The physics are still the best to date for GTA
As a GS employee in regards to the DS games, I'd say about 90% of our trade ins from customers don't include their cases. Most people either bring them as cartridges in a travel case, or they just bring them as a handful of games. It's definitely the most frustrating system to try and collect for as a game collector. PS3 and 360 games are a 50/50 in regards to getting a real case versus the fake ones we print out
But then when games came in with the cases we were instructed to throw the cases out because the planogram had nowhere to put DS games except for the small locked glass case that only had room for the now infamous clam shells.
I collected almost 200 empty DS cases between 2018 and 2019 from trade-ins and donated them to Pink Gorilla in Seattle.
@@MSUHitman I suppose it would depend on store then. Back when we had a dedicated section for the console and could have cases on the wall both DS and 3DS. The cartridges were gutted and put in the drawer. Once they removed them from the wall and we kept them behind glass, my store would always display the valuable games. And then keep the extras in a drawer (like what we do with PS3/360 now). If a customer came in looking for DS games, we'd print them a list of our inventory.
Since 2019, I feel as though I've only seen a handful of cases traded in with their game. I'd feel terrible throwing away game boxes outright. I'm glad you could donate the ones you saved. As a collector, I've resorted to some mom and pop retro stores and occasionally ebay for my collecting of DS/3DS games
I shamelessly use to dumpster dive my nearby Gamestop 7+ years ago and what I would get everytime i went were empty cases. I still have em in my shed which include 50+ 3ds game cases with manuals. I'm glad i kept them all this time because now people will pay just for the case and manual.. lmao
@Jaxson Shoemaker How do you like working at GS?
I’m glad you said this because I felt attacked for throwing out my DS cases lol
It made no sense to me as a kid to keep them when I had all my games stored in a travel bag. I am sorry to all collectors getting my caseless DS games now!
Something to note about blue label ps3 games, Drakengard 3 and Spiderman weren't the only games to get it. Around the time of the PS4's launch PS3 boxarts were changed to match the color of the PS4's branding at that time from late 2013 to around the end of 2014. Other games with the blue label include Gran Turismo 6, MLB the show 14, Murdered Soul Suspect and a bunch more.
For Metal Gear Solid the Legacy Collection I'd say get your money back and buy it brand new on Amazon for $40. Just picked it up myself and it was still sealed with everything. Definitely worth every dollar I payed!👍🏻
I paid 30 for a new one a month ago and the ps1 classic codes are still active too. crazy
The version with the slip cover and artbook is the best.
$40 for a sealed copy is good considering that game stop is selling a used copy for $30 to get it brand new for $10 more is definitely worth it nice find.
@@finloq2758 that's fucking sick!
After a few months of subscribing [edit:to MrMattyPlays] I was finally suggested a retro rebound vid. Subbed! I hardly even play games anymore and haven’t owned an Xbox since 360 but always keep up w your Xbox news 😂 appreciate you MrMatty
Years ago when I worked at Gamestop I'd say more than half the time the customer would trade in DS games without the box. And the few that did have the box were usually disgusting. You could tell it was some kid who had his sticky hands all over or spilled his juice on it etc. We would keep the boxes if they were in at least decent shape, but that was a very low amount
Babe, wake up, another Retro Rebound video just dropped
Retro couldn’t handle Roman saying “Let’s go bowling!”
The golden eye 360 print out was pure gold! Love the content Matty!
You can take the stuff you aren't happy with back to any GameStop location and they'll refund you. When I was spinning the GameStop roulette I ended up taking a lot of it back which at least made it a lot less painful.
Hey Matty instead of doing GameStop videos. Why don’t you do videos about local game stores in your area.
That was an atrocious lot, all said and done....jesus.
That $200 could've been used to buy...1 gallon of gas.
Theres actually quite a few blue label PS3 games, i went and collected all of them before people figured it out lol. For some reason Sony switched the PS3 games to look like PS4 and people got confused and complained so they went back to the black. So only a handful of games got the blue label.
I bought a lot of PS3 games from GameStop about a year ago. I’m not joking when I say this, half of them arrived water damaged and the other half were sequels to the games I actually ordered.
Idk if anyone has said this before. But as a former GS employee we were actually told to throw away DS cases when we would get trade-ins in order to save space in the drawers we stored them in. "no one cares about the cases anyways".
You’re going to love gta 4 and the dlc
Nice video! But ouch, that MGS Legacy! Disc 1 just contains MGS 4, disc 2 contains Peace Walker, 2 and 3 (also known as the MGS HD Collection). All the rest of the games are on a download voucher unfortunately.
Blue Label PS3 games there are a total of 14 released (not including variants).
That last one would have had me crestfallen lol.
Sly cooper brought me here, now I'm a new subscriber, love the content on this channel and the videos on Last Stand Media. Keep it up
This unboxings are fun, I thought I was the only one that was that picky on the cases and cover art, that legacy collection case almost made me threw up, I have that one brand new and sealed, if you would like mine copy let me know
This channel is BINGE worthy man. Gonna watch all ur stuff now lol dope vid man
These are some of my favorite videos! Awesome
In a year and a half, Matty is going to spend $1000 on Gamestop items. Oh how torturous this series must be for him.
Great video once again. Please keep it up!
You're lucky you got a print out and a case. They usually send my games in dvd slips no matter what system they're from, when I order used.
I've actually gotten pretty lucky with Gamestop lately. Bayonetta 2, Kaze & The Wild Masks, and LittleBIGPlanet Karting all online ordered, all CIB.
I love this gamestop lootboxes videos.
Also never played GTAIV more than 2 hours.
Excited for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 video.
I was told by my friend who is a GameStop manager that she has been instructed by her boss to throw out all 3ds & ds cases. That they take up too much space.
Woohoo! Love these videos! Can’t wait to see what you got and the ratio ha ha
Yay i love these videos. Thanks for doing these, there so entertaining. Keep up the great work Matty
Back in 2019 I got a Genesis with about 5 games from Gamestop and it was honestly a pretty great experience. The prices were decent, everything worked fine, and it was packaged well. My only gripe is some less than beautiful labels but thats fine. I'm just upset that specialty stores have been closing. Toys R Us, Gamestop, even Radio Shack. Not to mention the decline of malls. Very sad to see all around.
worked for several years as a store manager/ Leader (they couldnt make up their minds on what to call us xD) All youre doing is buying it online and it ships from the closest gamestop store that has the inventory. Only rarely are you getting anything from actual warehouse.
Matty loves his air horns 😂
The luck I get with GameStop online is pretty insane lol. Just off the top of my head ive gotten cib soul silver, trails of cold steel 1-2, Metroid prime trilogy, Mario party 6 and vita games in cases
As far as PS3 Blue Labels go the ones that I can think of off the top of my head are Rambo, Drakengard, Murdered: Soul Suspect, and Amazing Spider-Man 2. I’m pretty sure that there are more than that as well.
i work at gamestop. they cant guarantee a case or the manual or anything because we just take whatever is traded in. those ds clamshells are only if the customer trades it w/o the case. we dont even carry the proper cases for them. hence why its called preowned. we cant control what the customer trades in
10 years ago my parents got me a small case for all my ds games because the cases took up so much space. Ended up throwing all the cases away. I regret it today but back then it saved so much space
Gamestop throws away cases and boxes, it isn't just the trade in customers. It saves a ton on storage space, and space is money. Also even though it's an online order, you can go into a store for a return on the MGS game.
I’m sorry I just can’t with that sheet you hang up behind you…🤣
It's like watching someone dig up either buried treasure or fossilized poop
My last online GameStop purchase was on their 4 for $20 deal. Only 4/11 had original case I returned 5 of those without original artwork.
Yeah I used to work at Gamestop and we had to throw the cases out when traded in to "save space" i saved a lot to say the least lol.
i remember mystic doing a video where he bought used games from amazon. might be a fun video
I use sports games as replacement case fodder. For PS1 games I go to goodwill and pick up sealed cds to use their cases.
Thank God for Gameboy and DS flash carts. I hope someday someone makes one that works on the Switch. The Virtual Boy got one, which is really cool.
OK the intro video beat was fire
I used to throw my DS cases in my toy bin or closet and had a DS case I kept the games in. I assume most people did that with handhelds.
Even though times are tough for most folks this is a fantastic way to spend 200 dollars, they say gimmie shelter, I say gimmie games bro, followed by a serious salute
These videos are addicting
Bad luck overall matty. Next time will be amazing when the karma fairy comes to visit you and you bag all CIB games like 100% no copium needed other than to 420 afterwards xx
Yeah back then I threw out all of my 360 and DS cases. I'd just throw the DS games in a travel case and the 360 discs in a CD binder
Just bought Zelda Spirit Tracks for $45 CIB. I was shocked it wasn't cart only. Even cart only I would have been happy given what it's going for on ebay. I definitely got lucky for this one.
Sony owns the rights to Spider-Man. That’s why it’s blue label. It’s also why it was so hard to get Spider-Man in the MCU.
I don't have any of my games from when I was a kid. When the console broke we threw everything out. Shame
I always wondered about things like Manuals and boxes being missing. Like if I'm buying say a NES, SNES or N64 game...okay I get it, those boxes weren't exactly meant to be kept. But why do so many people not have boxes for things like the Switch? You can find so many listing for just the cartridge (and selling it at a complete price at that). Or I've been on a bit of a PS1 and PS2 buying spree lately...the number of listing with the disc in it's case with no manual, is just weird to me....what are you doing with these manuals?
Yeah I recently bought Xenoblade Chronicles 2 from GS preowned and it didn't include the OG box, like wtf, did the original owner feed the case to their dog or throw it in the garbage upon beating the game? Luckily I was able to get a replacement case for it
I'm sorry for your rough pull, but it was very entertaining! 😅
Just caught my first RR show and sorry to say, I did laugh a bit when the bad games come out of their packaging. Interesting and sad news about the DS boxes! Looking forward to the next show!
CiB…. God, I’m still amazed what people find important.
I’m addicted to this channel lol
I can't believe they only gave you MGS4 & not the whole MGS legacy collection disc... GameStop bruhhh...
That’s the usually thing too, when they sent a wrong one, everytime it will not have GameStop stickers and will be on a generic case, so it would not say if they scanned the actual item you bought. It seems to me this is the usual thing they do if they are sending a wrong item. I hate when they do this.
The reality of this is most people buying from GS don't care about CIB. Also about 90% of current DS/3DS don't have a case when traded in.
When i use to work at gamestop a around 2015 or 2016 don't fully remember but they would have us throw away ds cases.
Can we hear the outcome of the customer support phone call please? Really curious. Most calls/ interactions I've had with GameStop's customer support have been mid.
That mgs legacy collection came from a store that really does not give a fuck
Missing disc, not even generic boxart
This is why you don't buy retro games from gamestop unless you're personally at the store. I always buy from ebay, from a reputable seller and haven't gotten burned once.
Damn, this one hurt to watch. I think gamestop deserves you spending less next time unless they make it up in the next order haha
Damn It Mr Matty!! You got me to buy a PSP-3000 Plus a few sweet games for it 🤓
The ending of the game is only on disc for WiiU (007 legends)
I know you want GS to focus on retro again, but they failed miserably the first time they did it & it would probably be worse the 2nd time around as most GS employees don’t know anything about retro games.
Pat Contri did tons of coverage on this subject, here’s his 20-minute video from someone that tried to fix things within GS but ultimately failed.
th-cam.com/video/zuGbBTDHzFg/w-d-xo.html
in the late 2010s i was ordering games from the retro section on gamestop, and most of the time they used printer paper for the covers, its really sad they can't just let you filter whats available
You should try Game x change out here in Texas, they carry alot of retro from jaguar to ps5 xbx
I ordered like 5 games during last year's Gamestop Christmas sale. Most of them (usually the amazing ones) came in a disc sleeve and the rest were in the cheap knockoff 360 cases, one of which was broken. Only one intact with the original case was Splinter Cell Blacklist. Wonder why.
that MGS legacy no case only disc 1 for $30!? they played you like a damn fiddle!! really hurt, btw METAL GEAR SOLID and VR missions were the code only in the bundle, still available on the PS3 store tho as at this point find a new copy with a active code seems quite impossible
They did that to my mom and did not tell her she was getting used 3ds games for me.
no one gonna talk about how he isnt mad about gamestops stickers ruining the collection
Check your local gamestop dumpster. I've literally gotten hundreds of ds and 3ds cases with manuals there.
I think GameStop just throws all the DS 3DS boxes out when they get them. I mean, their showcase for the games are meant to show the cartridge only…
I got the same copy that you got of GTA IV also on Gamestop but mine came with the disc not in a very good condition totally scartched.
At least it ended on a high note😂🤣😂
Ring of the Hawk intro song. Marky D won't be happy
At least U didn’t get a dead bug in yours.. I had a dead cockroach in my game the other day from them
Great video! $200 for this is sad but the Golden Eye print out was worth it
Seeing just the mgs4 disc and not even the actual case saddens me cause I picked up the legacy collection a month ago everything there the case both discs and even the download codes that come with it
Man the MGS one hurt
The good thing about having a TH-cam channel and opening Pruducts on camera is you have video evidence of they dispute your claim. I have a channel I unbox things on and have had to send video clips as proof in past
Definitely take the mgs to you’re nearest GameStop and get your money back or see if they have it
With ds games most kids have a gaming pouch and just throw the games in there. They probably keeps the boxes but when trading in the games they only take their pouch with them.
so sometimes they just send a case and you have to be okay with that?
Actually scamming their customers with that MGS Legacy disc!
How come when I walk in a GameStop I see more inventory for toys, cards and stuffed animals rather than games???
Does the cross-buy still work with games between vita and ps3? Didn't know that existed.
Gamestop needs to do exactly what you said, rather than letting stores like DK Oldies hoard old CIB games and retro consoles and mark them up for ridiculous prices. Real gamers deserve this stuff!
Your packages are essentially from a program in GameStop known as ship from store. The games get sent from individual stores instead of warehouse. As for the ds games. GameStop requires employees to throw out the boxes to save room in the ds cabinents.
I'd send the whole lot back to GameStop all being incomplete, some bad condition and all over priced.
It being so hard and expensive to get these older games in good condition or new is why I’m switching to digital. My ocd can’t handle things like this. Hell, I’m having a hard time finding new older switch games.
maybe go trifting and vlog it? could be great fun for you as well as the viewers :)
Definitely don’t want GameStop to get more into the retro market. Could potentially harm the smaller retro game stores.
You can't blame GameStop for the no original cases and manuals. It just depends on how the person traded their games in.