I remember helping a gamestop employee help a nice old lady find a game to play with her grandson. It was a Nintendo game and she gave details involving cute characters in a little town... yeah that narrows it down. As she spoke I started to get what she was saying and asked if she could fish and collect bugs. Her eyes lit up and she was like "YES! Yes and there was a little yellow dog in it." Animal Crossing... She wanted that one. She left very happy, and I thought it was cool that she was playing with her grandson, since she was barely younger than my grandmother.
When I worked at EB Games (This was back in 2004 or so), I used to get parents that weren't even all that old coming in and saying "My son wants the Mario game for Playstation." I would kindly explain that there are no Mario games for Playstation. These soccer moms would always be in such a rush during the holidays they would act like they didn't have time for dealing with me. "Ugh, my son played it at his friend's house, I know it exists." Their tone always seemed to suggest they think I'm just lying to them for some reason. So then I would say, well maybe his friend has a Gamecube. That has Mario on it. To which she would reply "I don't know what that is, but we have a Playstation, so I need the game for that."
Of course, if you did what I would think to do in that situation, explain to them that different consoles have different games that are exclusive, how those games would only be available for that particular console, they would still fail to get it. Even if you showed them detailed explainers about how exclusives used to make or break a console, that consoles depend on exclusives to attract buyers, they would still look at you like you were saying one plus one is eleven. Sometimes I wish stores would put up signage aggressively telling the ignoramuses things like "You can only get Mario games on Nintendo consoles, and you are an idiot if you think otherwise".
well yea, i mean at soimepoint the only console in existence was nintendo, for a very long time. its like saying google something when you mean use a search engine, youre still free to use duckduckgo
The worst old people are the ones that ask you a question and when you answer the question they get mad because it's not what they wanted to hear. Like "do coupons work on clearance items?" "No" "what do you mean I'm on a fixed income and can't afford this price." "There's nothing I can do for you mam." "I want to talk to a manager." Then the manager comes up tells them the same thing they argue for 30 minutes until the customer either gets it any way or just leave
nicholas taylor that’s irritating but it’s worse when they keep asking questions pause for you to answer but then keep interrupting every time you actually try to answer.
My personal favorite "we're on a fixed income" what's it like to do nothing all day. "I want to talk to a manager." every time someone wants to talk to the manager, the managers would pull a disappearing act.
I work game stop now and I had an elderly customer ask for GTA6 for the Ps4. I calmly let them know that doesn't exist and they showed me an obviously fake cover art photo their grand child sent them. I told them it was a fake photo and their response was "Are you calling my grandson a lair?!"
My father inlaw speaks normally on his cellphone unless his siblings from New York call. Then he starts yelling because you know... we are all the way in California.
Dart Deity Yeah thats pretty much what many of my family members do. Some might call it lazy, but we cant predict what other people want or need ALL the time.
Well, it's understandable that the elderly want to be independent. If you start to lose your ability to be independent, you'll start to try to hold on tightly to what independent you have left. I know it looks depressing, but when you remember the things you used to be able to do, and then one day, you can't do it anymore, yeah, you'll want to cling to what you have left.
Carlin Rackley Sometimes its not so much about independance. Sometimes its that they dont want to constantly bother people. Because they dont want to annoy or burden you with anything or they think you see them as a nuscance. In my grandmothers case she's constantly apologizing to me or my family if she asks for something like money or living arangements even if you tell them its ok. Honestly me personally I know I wouldn't want to bother my future kids with them constantly taking care of me all the time.
When I worked in Walmart electronics it was always amusing how some old people would pronounce certain game related things. For example one referred to Mario, and Princess Peach amiibos as "Malo and Princess Preston", and some old lady came in and demanded a copy of "Zeldor the Wind Wacker"
Ian Poytress My grandma would call it "Pacman" which is understandable since the Pokemon logo is very stylistic and eould be hard to read for an old person.
old man comes into my store shows me a product asked if we have it i know we dont but tell him we could probally order it i check the product and find out its from one of our suppliers it was invented back in 1972 and discontinued in 1991 i give the old man the information he is baffeld and asks me if i can order any back stock of this product discontinued in 1991.... no chance in hell i offer him a modern alternative and runs out angry i understand if a product was discontinued recently u can buy backstock for a while but not after 20+ years
EoR 2B4GOT10 He’s probably born from a time where backstock lingered and computers didn’t give businesses the economies of scale that the post-1990’s produced. After the Internet era, stuff moves, and it gets moved to regions that know they’ll sell product. Hopefully they didn’t leave a bad survey. Also avoid building up false hope about “probably” that’s what really upsets people. Always say maybe, let me check: It’s a very neutral statement, that is the truth and gives you wiggle room.
I once had a lady yell at me for five minutes and threaten to call the cops on me when I worked at Wal-Mart because Halo wouldn't run on Gamecube and I had to try to explain it to them. Just get a gift card old people.
I remember when I was a kid and if I asked my grandparents for a game for Christmas I usually gave them a note of what the game was called and what console it was for so there wouldn't be any confusion. if they wanted to get something for my cousins I usually went with since I know what they have. It just always made sense to me to do that at least to help them out.
Gas station hell worker here, having the state pretty much scam the elderly out of their money with lottery is primarily my job. Aged and confused is correct and you get to see them DRIVE here and struggle to walk. As for the vlog channel stuff, it might be best to have it as another series on the FANTAVISION channel.
@@videogamepolak0 It's not smart to take the lumpsum, id take the weekly payments, that's a source of income over having millions of dollars just given to you at once, people really don't know what to do with that type of money, it's pretty intimidating if you're not smart managing your money.
@@videogamepolak0 true but honestly i always hear horror stories of people who take the lump sum lol, but honestly i live a pretty simple life give me $2000 a month and im golden tbh
As I sat and watched and listened, while smoking my medicinal cannabis cigarettes I had to laugh about how the elderly always made finding a game a guessing game or constantly mixed up the platforms. I think it's because they bought their kids NES' and Genesis' so you'd think they'd learn since when the first time I played Madden 15 on the PS4 my Dad thought he was watching actual NFL Football LOL! Anyways, I think I would've laughed more but hell, that's why you have the most awesome channel on TH-cam! I look forward to these uploads as they're always apt to make me smile first thing in the morning when they're released. As I've said: FantaVision is Visual and Verbal Gold!
Hispanic parents were the worst for asking about things like "Mario Kart for the Xbox 360" or "Pokémon for the PS3" I always felt bad for them, but then they'd try to act like I was the idiot
yeah and the worst thing is that I have to ID check them and they get all worried and say "i have a green card" I then look at it and say "ma'am this is a landscaping business card..."
Used to work in my family's businesses over the holidays when I was still at school, one of them was a stationary store and atleast once a week when I was there someone (different people) would come in thinking we were a pharmacy.
I don't know how some people can be that cruel. When my grandparents asked us what games we wanted for Christmas/birthdays we'd always write out the full title of the game, and what system we wanted it on onto a post-it note. So there'd be no confusion when it came to stuff like this.
A couple years ago I read an article about how even though board games are dying out, sales of Monopoly remain steady. It accredited it to all the “versions” or “variants” of Monopoly. I remember the article stating something like “there is 1,200 versions of Monopoly” (it was something around that number). Who knows how many versions of Monopoly are out there nowadays. I would not be surprised if it was over 2,000.
"They should realize that it's a form of technology they don't understand" I think that's the thing though, since they don't understand it, they think all video games are the same, simple things.
Before she passed away my grandmother on mny mom's side played video games with me, in fact RPGs were her favorites such as Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, & Secret of Mana to give a few examples. THe original Legend of Zelda got her started playing video games & we even helped each other when one of us got stuck in the game we were playing.
I worked at a state local brand of grocery store called cub foods for about 3 years. funny how you and Eric have so many stories to share but i can hardly remember many memorable moments of that entire three years of working lmao. granted, i was the "cart guy" for the most part and my job was very straightforward and i didn't interact with my co-workers too often. I think the biggest issue I ever had with the elderly is when I'm training around 30 or 40 carts across the parking lot back into the store, they being old walk EXTREMELY slow. and much like douches who dont feel like they have to look out for the cart dude and almost hit me with their car, they are more or less oblivious to my existence until im 5 inches away from them. now, if I see an older person walking across the lot to go inside ill stop and let them go through of course, it's when they full on see me going past them and still decide to start walking across the lane. you really cant blame them like you said, but still... made my 17 year old hair just that much grayer sometimes lmao.
No lie about 9 years ago a friend and I were at a Gamestop somewhere in Orlando Florida near Universal Studios. We went in to just browse around and 2 elderly women walk in looking for a game. Then they start talking about Gears of War and how they play the game with their grandkids. I had to get my friend's attention and told him to just listen to the them talk. So we just listened for a little bit and one of the women started talking about how she liked the chainsaw gun and cutting people in half. Both my friend and my jaws hit the floor. We ended up walking out laughing and talking about how those two ladies were the coolest old people ever.
i had an old lady call me one time asking to set up her vcr. she asked if she could bring it in for me to set up. asked if i could go to her house to set it up . asked if i had one in my house.
@@cronicjointpain1 if it wasnt early this year it was early last year . i remember vividly cuz it was when things died down after the holiday rush and i just couldnt stop laughin about it all day lol
Honestly with this channel, I really enjoy relaxing and watching with just u and or with Eric to cope with ur stories from retail and rants and reactions on stories that really grind your gears and man the humor in it is the best, I'm a real fan and great work with the channel so far!
I love the mario x dragon quest monopoly game for the wii.. its great. And I know the struggle with old people. I have a very boring job as a call center agent and it takes me sometimes 5-10 minutes to explain the concept of "you dialed the wrong number" to some old person. Sometimes, I wonder who they managed to survive that long.
I personally like how you do all different things like the gameplay, discussions, rants and everything brother it's entertaining to me and I'm sure everyone else agrees that your doing a great job man, hope you and Eric are doing good
Been a new sub for awhile man, as a worker in retail for years and now working in a benefits/insurance call center it's nice and fun to hear these rants and take a breather. Keep up the good vids man
I remember my brother asked my grandpa for mario 3d land for 3ds but got him new super mario bros and my brother said he got the wrong game and my grandpa was like “you said super mario bros game” omg 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Pyramid_xChris Honestly yeah I blame Nintendo for that one. I can imagine how many kids asked their grandparents for WiiUs and gave them a Wii instead.
I owned that it was ghettoply i found it in a thift store sealed for 5 dollers it was awesome after i played it a few times with friends i sold it for 20 dollars😂
People should not be this ignorant. They should know there is a difference. Video games are not new at this point. Home video games have been around since the late 70s-early 80s. I am 52, my generation grew up back in the early 80s. We had 3 main systems back then. Atari, Intellivision and Colecovision. Just as today you have three main systems-PlayStation, Nintendo and Xbox. What I am getting at is that people my age certainly should know that there are multiple systems that only play designated games because we were playing video games back when we were teenagers and people of my parents age (70-80) should know this as well because they were buying video games for their kids back in the 1980s. I dont know if what I am trying to explain makes sense but one last thing. You suggested having them take a picture of what they are wanting. Now you just sent a bunch of senior citizens into Walmart to hassle them for some polaroid film for a outdated camera that no longer exists!
My dad is rely good with games and used to play alot of game alike halo he knows vidoe games well but one time he called my dc a Gameboy I guess its not a bad mistake since it's not to far off Gameboys are the parent of the DS basically
These videos heal me on a spiritual level. Thanks Fanta 😂. On a serious note, they were an amazing thing to look forward to when I was in an awful bout of depression. Thanks to you and the FantaCrew for everything 🥰
This is the best Games Stop related video I have seen so far. Brilliant. I work in a sweet shop which is a different market as you do get older generations in for sweets that have been around longer then me. My favourite is " Have you got any lightbulbs" as it used to be a discount store. You just take it as it comes :)
Yep I like the funny and unaware old person you describe . Even thou I'm no spring chicken were I work in (retail/clothing) is 70% older people who are in their 70's . They are challenging half time and the other half are actually nice people . Your channel does a lot in entertainment with games and yours and Eric's experiences I enjoy . Maybe videos of you'all seeing a movie or after talking ,ranting or reviewing it afterwards would be cool . Whatever ya do I'm sure will be great!
I work retail at one of the major wireless companies and ever since i found your channel i watch every video religiously. So many similar stories😂🤣. Love your content. I particularly like the wallmart useless manager stories.lol
Dude my grandma is chill. She actually sat down with me one time and played Mario Kart 8. She also sat down and watched me play Arkham city, and understood everything that was going on. That’s why I love my grandma
My mom used to call every console I ever had the nintendo, My grandpa called them all ataris. My Aunt used to always want newer generation games but refused to buy a newer gen console. She had an NES and would keep waiting for Mario 64 to come out on it. At least she had a console from the right company for a mario game but didn't understand upgraded hardware needed for newer gen games.
Used to have old ladies coming in for Mario on the Xbox. “What do you mean it doesn’t exist? My grandson said I could get it and he’s a very smart boy!”
Once when I was at a local retro game store and they got a call asking I they take trade-ins for video games. (keep in mind, the store had the term gaming in it's name. )
My grandmother took us to the store and let us pick out what we wanted. We choose a gamecube. After 15 years at grandma's house and most of the stuff going missing, she finally let me have the cube and I found super smash brothers in an aggressive inline case.
When I used to work for Fry's, one day, a lady handed me a flyer for a local Bashas and asked me where the sale item was. I told her that we are Fry's and Bashas was two lights down. That poor woman legitimately thought she was there and profusely apologized. Poor thing.
What about interviewing current retail workers? What about commenting on others retail videos? There are tons of gamestop rant videos. What if you spent another day at the airport trying to recapture your experience from before? You could stay up all night without any food or water and record restaurant workers being rude and telling you "no handouts".
I've seen it too. Straight outta high school I worked in the family business which was a music store. Had those kinds of questions every day, not just older people either it was anybody. Years later after college I'd worked couple years in an electronics store n a lot more of the same and a lot worse. 1 example: a guy comes in to the electronics store with a pane of glass in his hands, looks around sees the electronics parts n tools on every shelf then keeps asking me where the glass blowers were. He was still there out front after closing time when we were going home still wondering why there wasn't any glass blowers working in an electronics store. I shit you not. After that I promised myself never to work retail again and I haven't.
any stories about Retail injuries - like people having heart attacks or falling. When i worked at wal-mart, about 1 once a month, some old dude would have a heart attack.
To my mom, even when she was younger, all game systems are Nintendo. Must be parent slang. When I began working for the bank almost 13 years ago, it was a branch inside of Bashas and old people would wait in line, come up to a teller, and then get confused when they find out the Bashas customer service counter is next to us.
My grandmother keeps telling me how people tell her she can go to places to learn how to operate a real 'phone (as opposed to the piece of shit she has where the speaker that goes over the ear will not let you hear more than one syllable in ten), and so forth. And she tells us she always says to them "I don't wanna learn". I have not said it to her like this yet, but I am going to say one day, that is great. You are effectively making it a lot harder for us to communicate to you, making our ability to keep you abreast of plans that we involve you in a thousand times harder than it is to keep ourselves and our nearest in the loop. Things like that. Perhaps the most insulting part is when she goes to read the physical printed bus timetables, and you keep showing her not only the timetable program on your 'phone, but literally how it is able to show you in real fukking time where the bus really is. I have absolutely said to her face, nobody reads those timetables anymore because, as you have told me more than once, the drivers call those timetables "wish lists". That the buses literally have tracking devices in them that my phone will show you their position up to thirty seconds ago. What I am getting at is basically that there is being unaware and incompetent because you are elderly and time has taken its toll on you. But then there is also being perfectly compus and able in spite of being old, and choosing to be ignorant and stupid anyway. And the latter is so very, very aggravating.
Last week, I interacted with 2 geezers. One asked where an item in another department was and I directed him to the location in that department and he responded "Oh... it's in that department?" Not a hint of sarcasm. Then I also saw a guy "waiting to die". He was moving at like 1/8 speed and looked completely confused like he wasn't even sure what time it was, what country he was in, why their are other people wandering around moving at such high speeds, if he really came to buy what he was buying or if this was even the store he wanted to be at, or that he even understood how to use his hands, eyes or legs. If I was that old, I'd be like "Chop, chop, I got things to do before I croak!"
If you branch out into more vlog type stuff, I'd love to see you do midnight launches, limited time events, and just random trips in general to stores you frequent. Doesn't have to be just at GameStop or Walmart; basically any store you visit on occasion. Hell, even a trip to a thrift shop with Eric would be cool to see all the crazy and weird shit you guys can find there. More gaming news and laidback reviews of games, music, or drinks are awesome too.
I've worked retail for almost 13 years, times it was pretty damn funny dealing with old people, and then of course sometimes I wanted to pull my hair out and tell them off. The ones that really get on my nerves are the ones that still know what's going on but refuse to even try to understand or learn to use the card reader. I realize a lot of old people really don't know or can't learn how to use them, but there's ones who can learn and use them but refuse them, and it gets really annoying...they act like the world owes them something because of their age, so they expect everyone to do everything for them.
my parents still call all consoles (and pcs) a pokemon. i was really into pokemon in like 6th grade and i'd always say "i'm playing pokemon" when someone asked me what i was playing, so they just assumed it's the console name also my grandma used to call skateboards "skaters"
im a part time wheelie,, the door thing, i usually can open a door with no trouble, and i dont like help with door BUT HERES WHY ....many people like to stand in the door to hold it open, or reach there arm around and pushing t he door open, stil leaning in the door, there poor shopulder about to pop out of joint and 9 times outta 10 theyre still in the way, i mean most people cant walk through a door being BLOCKED by a ''helpful'' person.... so when people open a dor by grabbing itand standing out with the door, great, very helpful, thank you, but ssssooo many peopleinsuist on getting in the door to hold it open which means they are usually in the way
Eric and I will be playing Mario Kart 8 tonight on Twitch! Come watch us race or join us yourself! www.twitch.tv/fafafanta
what time you playing tonite?
7:30 PM PDT
I was at a game store that sold a rick and Morty version of risk
game on!
merio kert on the xberx u mean
I remember helping a gamestop employee help a nice old lady find a game to play with her grandson. It was a Nintendo game and she gave details involving cute characters in a little town... yeah that narrows it down. As she spoke I started to get what she was saying and asked if she could fish and collect bugs. Her eyes lit up and she was like "YES! Yes and there was a little yellow dog in it."
Animal Crossing... She wanted that one. She left very happy, and I thought it was cool that she was playing with her grandson, since she was barely younger than my grandmother.
You're a good person👍
that's cute
Turns out it was Pokémon and she assumed Pikachu was the yellow dog
Wholesome as fuck.
@@tpach89 Lol
When I worked at EB Games (This was back in 2004 or so), I used to get parents that weren't even all that old coming in and saying "My son wants the Mario game for Playstation." I would kindly explain that there are no Mario games for Playstation. These soccer moms would always be in such a rush during the holidays they would act like they didn't have time for dealing with me. "Ugh, my son played it at his friend's house, I know it exists." Their tone always seemed to suggest they think I'm just lying to them for some reason. So then I would say, well maybe his friend has a Gamecube. That has Mario on it. To which she would reply "I don't know what that is, but we have a Playstation, so I need the game for that."
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Joshua Norden How did you not scream?
Can count how many times this exact thing happened to me at GameStop. It’s like you looked into my memories.
Of course, if you did what I would think to do in that situation, explain to them that different consoles have different games that are exclusive, how those games would only be available for that particular console, they would still fail to get it. Even if you showed them detailed explainers about how exclusives used to make or break a console, that consoles depend on exclusives to attract buyers, they would still look at you like you were saying one plus one is eleven.
Sometimes I wish stores would put up signage aggressively telling the ignoramuses things like "You can only get Mario games on Nintendo consoles, and you are an idiot if you think otherwise".
Boomers are a blight on humanity
ur one of my fav youtubers
Thanks man!
overt watches fanta 👀👀
My dad used too call every console a nintendo too lol
And every Pokemon Pikachu.
WOOOOOOW. every old white parent did that ever relax kid.not a crazy connection
@@NecroBanana that was my mom.
So does my dad. And every Sega console a Sega. And so on. He does play modern games tho.
well yea, i mean at soimepoint the only console in existence was nintendo, for a very long time.
its like saying google something when you mean use a search engine, youre still free to use duckduckgo
The worst old people are the ones that ask you a question and when you answer the question they get mad because it's not what they wanted to hear. Like "do coupons work on clearance items?" "No" "what do you mean I'm on a fixed income and can't afford this price." "There's nothing I can do for you mam." "I want to talk to a manager." Then the manager comes up tells them the same thing they argue for 30 minutes until the customer either gets it any way or just leave
nicholas taylor that’s irritating but it’s worse when they keep asking questions pause for you to answer but then keep interrupting every time you actually try to answer.
They kick and scream to get their way and if they don't they complain to corporate with some made up bs.
My personal favorite "we're on a fixed income" what's it like to do nothing all day.
"I want to talk to a manager." every time someone wants to talk to the manager, the managers would pull a disappearing act.
"do coupons work on clearance items?" or ask if we have more clearance stuff in the back.....um NO.
"we're on a fixed income" my personal favorites are the homemakers who haven't worked their whole lives telling us how to do our jobs.
I work game stop now and I had an elderly customer ask for GTA6 for the Ps4. I calmly let them know that doesn't exist and they showed me an obviously fake cover art photo their grand child sent them. I told them it was a fake photo and their response was "Are you calling my grandson a lair?!"
This should go in the viewer stories!
no, i was calling him a dungeon
@@kidkecleon I see what you did there.
Good way for a kid to get himself a lump of coal (or its modern equivalent)
Well we aren’t calling his grandson a truther, and he’s lying to play a game that is obviously not for his age group.
My grandmother does that too. On a home phone, she speaks normally. On a cell phone, she talks so loud and sounds so concerned.
My father inlaw speaks normally on his cellphone unless his siblings from New York call. Then he starts yelling because you know... we are all the way in California.
I lived in FL for a bit and when I shopped at our Gamestop there was a couple that came in looking for puzzles and puzzle boards, bless their hearts.
this is why my grandparents give me and my relatives 100 dollars and set us loose in a mall
That's actually pretty smart
Dart Deity
Yeah thats pretty much what many of my family members do. Some might call it lazy, but we cant predict what other people want or need ALL the time.
@@revolvingworld2676 yeah true true
That's lit!
I have seen a old person walk into a GAME store & ask for milk & butter.
As it turned out the store was once a small supermarket a few years back.
Well, it's understandable that the elderly want to be independent. If you start to lose your ability to be independent, you'll start to try to hold on tightly to what independent you have left. I know it looks depressing, but when you remember the things you used to be able to do, and then one day, you can't do it anymore, yeah, you'll want to cling to what you have left.
Carlin Rackley
Sometimes its not so much about independance. Sometimes its that they dont want to constantly bother people. Because they dont want to annoy or burden you with anything or they think you see them as a nuscance.
In my grandmothers case she's constantly apologizing to me or my family if she asks for something like money or living arangements even if you tell them its ok.
Honestly me personally I know I wouldn't want to bother my future kids with them constantly taking care of me all the time.
@@revolvingworld2676 Yeah, there's that too.
Ironically enough, some of them manage to be independent for quite a long time into old age.
When I worked in Walmart electronics it was always amusing how some old people would pronounce certain game related things. For example one referred to Mario, and Princess Peach amiibos as "Malo and Princess Preston", and some old lady came in and demanded a copy of "Zeldor the Wind Wacker"
The last one sounds like British.
That's funny
WindShear I can’t wait for the Zeldor the Wind Wacker
Ian Poytress
My grandma would call it "Pacman" which is understandable since the Pokemon logo is very stylistic and eould be hard to read for an old person.
@@icaruspotion7080 I feel all adults have called it or continue to call it "Pokeman" I know my dad did.
My mother yells into her cell phone like she think its two cups on a string
LOL
Monopoly owns a monopoly on monopoly board games about owning a monopoly of a monopoly
ISHERWOOD75 instructions too complicated. Got dick stuck in toaster
LOL
old man comes into my store
shows me a product asked if we have it
i know we dont but tell him we could probally order it
i check the product and find out its from one of our suppliers
it was invented back in 1972 and discontinued in 1991
i give the old man the information he is baffeld and asks me if i can order any back stock of this product
discontinued in 1991.... no chance in hell
i offer him a modern alternative and runs out angry
i understand if a product was discontinued recently u can buy backstock for a while but not after 20+ years
EoR 2B4GOT10 He’s probably born from a time where backstock lingered and computers didn’t give businesses the economies of scale that the post-1990’s produced.
After the Internet era, stuff moves, and it gets moved to regions that know they’ll sell product.
Hopefully they didn’t leave a bad survey. Also avoid building up false hope about “probably” that’s what really upsets people.
Always say maybe, let me check: It’s a very neutral statement, that is the truth and gives you wiggle room.
I once had a lady yell at me for five minutes and threaten to call the cops on me when I worked at Wal-Mart because Halo wouldn't run on Gamecube and I had to try to explain it to them.
Just get a gift card old people.
I remember when I was a kid and if I asked my grandparents for a game for Christmas I usually gave them a note of what the game was called and what console it was for so there wouldn't be any confusion. if they wanted to get something for my cousins I usually went with since I know what they have. It just always made sense to me to do that at least to help them out.
You are a great person.
Aged and Confused sounds like one of those straight to Dollar Tree DVD movies.
do you have the avengers movie on betamax?
@@SAM-ru4vx Me: No.
Old Woman: well, what about RCA Selectavision? You got it for that?
LOL
It’s baby boomers that do the yelling into the phone thing
As well as the soccer mom thing and every other blight on humanity
Gas station hell worker here, having the state pretty much scam the elderly out of their money with lottery is primarily my job. Aged and confused is correct and you get to see them DRIVE here and struggle to walk. As for the vlog channel stuff, it might be best to have it as another series on the FANTAVISION channel.
@@videogamepolak0 It's not smart to take the lumpsum, id take the weekly payments, that's a source of income over having millions of dollars just given to you at once, people really don't know what to do with that type of money, it's pretty intimidating if you're not smart managing your money.
@@videogamepolak0 true but honestly i always hear horror stories of people who take the lump sum lol, but honestly i live a pretty simple life give me $2000 a month and im golden tbh
20:40 and don't forget waiting for the mail, going out to the mailbox several times a day, watching the weather channel.
Your content never fails to make my day dude
As I sat and watched and listened, while smoking my medicinal cannabis cigarettes I had to laugh about how the elderly always made finding a game a guessing game or constantly mixed up the platforms. I think it's because they bought their kids NES' and Genesis' so you'd think they'd learn since when the first time I played Madden 15 on the PS4 my Dad thought he was watching actual NFL Football LOL!
Anyways, I think I would've laughed more but hell, that's why you have the most awesome channel on TH-cam!
I look forward to these uploads as they're always apt to make me smile first thing in the morning when they're released. As I've said: FantaVision is Visual and Verbal Gold!
Haha thanks man! That's freaking hilarious your dad thought Madden was real!
The tangent on screaming in to the phone had me rolling.
It is so true.
Our modern technology really threw a wrench in human evolution.
Hispanic parents were the worst for asking about things like "Mario Kart for the Xbox 360" or "Pokémon for the PS3" I always felt bad for them, but then they'd try to act like I was the idiot
Yea they think everything is the same, my parents still think that my xbox is a wii
yeah and the worst thing is that I have to ID check them and they get all worried and say "i have a green card" I then look at it and say "ma'am this is a landscaping business card..."
@@wooferjr169 Hey man, it's technically a 'GREEN' card. XDDD.... no? okay. i'll let myself out.
omfg the yelling into the phone thing !!! my mom is 50 and ALWAYS yells into the phone, even after we tell her how loud she’s talking
Used to work in my family's businesses over the holidays when I was still at school, one of them was a stationary store and atleast once a week when I was there someone (different people) would come in thinking we were a pharmacy.
I don't know how some people can be that cruel. When my grandparents asked us what games we wanted for Christmas/birthdays we'd always write out the full title of the game, and what system we wanted it on onto a post-it note. So there'd be no confusion when it came to stuff like this.
A couple years ago I read an article about how even though board games are dying out, sales of Monopoly remain steady. It accredited it to all the “versions” or “variants” of Monopoly. I remember the article stating something like “there is 1,200 versions of Monopoly” (it was something around that number). Who knows how many versions of Monopoly are out there nowadays. I would not be surprised if it was over 2,000.
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I cant imagine the toy industry is doing too well anymore, especially since Toys R Us is gone. Its kind of sad now tbh
@@revolvingworld2676 Toys R Us might come back.
"They should realize that it's a form of technology they don't understand"
I think that's the thing though, since they don't understand it, they think all video games are the same, simple things.
Before she passed away my grandmother on mny mom's side played video games with me, in fact RPGs were her favorites such as Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, & Secret of Mana to give a few examples. THe original Legend of Zelda got her started playing video games & we even helped each other when one of us got stuck in the game we were playing.
I worked at a state local brand of grocery store called cub foods for about 3 years. funny how you and Eric have so many stories to share but i can hardly remember many memorable moments of that entire three years of working lmao. granted, i was the "cart guy" for the most part and my job was very straightforward and i didn't interact with my co-workers too often.
I think the biggest issue I ever had with the elderly is when I'm training around 30 or 40 carts across the parking lot back into the store, they being old walk EXTREMELY slow. and much like douches who dont feel like they have to look out for the cart dude and almost hit me with their car, they are more or less oblivious to my existence until im 5 inches away from them. now, if I see an older person walking across the lot to go inside ill stop and let them go through of course, it's when they full on see me going past them and still decide to start walking across the lane. you really cant blame them like you said, but still... made my 17 year old hair just that much grayer sometimes lmao.
So you were clean team. Which Cub?
No lie about 9 years ago a friend and I were at a Gamestop somewhere in Orlando Florida near Universal Studios. We went in to just browse around and 2 elderly women walk in looking for a game. Then they start talking about Gears of War and how they play the game with their grandkids. I had to get my friend's attention and told him to just listen to the them talk. So we just listened for a little bit and one of the women started talking about how she liked the chainsaw gun and cutting people in half. Both my friend and my jaws hit the floor. We ended up walking out laughing and talking about how those two ladies were the coolest old people ever.
Mario on the Xbox
Mario on the PlayStation
Mario on the ass
Mario on the Sega Dreamcast
Mario on the NES
Mario on the Atari
Mario on the graves
Mario on the Polybius.
FANTA has a really nice jaw line I respect that keep it up love the content
i had an old lady call me one time asking to set up her vcr. she asked if she could bring it in for me to set up. asked if i could go to her house to set it up . asked if i had one in my house.
LOL how long ago? Was it recent?
@@cronicjointpain1 if it wasnt early this year it was early last year . i remember vividly cuz it was when things died down after the holiday rush and i just couldnt stop laughin about it all day lol
Should've sent her to the RLM guys
@@LarryGambino Oh wow, that's too funny man hahaha
Ask her what’s a vcr?
I feel like my dad thinks if a phone has no wires, you need to scream into it.
At my local GAME store, when you preorder something. You must have ID when you make the order it & you must have ID when you pick it up.
Honestly with this channel, I really enjoy relaxing and watching with just u and or with Eric to cope with ur stories from retail and rants and reactions on stories that really grind your gears and man the humor in it is the best, I'm a real fan and great work with the channel so far!
I love the mario x dragon quest monopoly game for the wii.. its great. And I know the struggle with old people. I have a very boring job as a call center agent and it takes me sometimes 5-10 minutes to explain the concept of "you dialed the wrong number" to some old person. Sometimes, I wonder who they managed to survive that long.
Fortune street is the game you're talking about.
I wish thay existed
I personally like how you do all different things like the gameplay, discussions, rants and everything brother it's entertaining to me and I'm sure everyone else agrees that your doing a great job man, hope you and Eric are doing good
Been a new sub for awhile man, as a worker in retail for years and now working in a benefits/insurance call center it's nice and fun to hear these rants and take a breather. Keep up the good vids man
I think Nintendo was like Kleenex for a long time. My mom doesn't speak a whole lot of English and she always referred to my systems as Nintendo.
I picked up a couple super nintendos over the years at garage sales that were called playstations.
Same goes woth coke
I remember my brother asked my grandpa for mario 3d land for 3ds but got him new super mario bros and my brother said he got the wrong game and my grandpa was like “you said super mario bros game” omg 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
That's on Nintendo for the stupid name. They did that with the new 3ds too
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Honestly yeah I blame Nintendo for that one. I can imagine how many kids asked their grandparents for WiiUs and gave them a Wii instead.
@@revolvingworld2676 my parents thought the wii u was an add on.
As you get older post 50 you start to regress back to a baby.
Like that profile pic
Fantavision: drinks on camera
TH-cam algorithm: *TRIGGERED*
The very first non-monopoly monopoly game was some ghetto hood based monopoly in the mid nineties
I owned that it was ghettoply i found it in a thift store sealed for 5 dollers it was awesome after i played it a few times with friends i sold it for 20 dollars😂
@@robertfeatherstone8030 right on!! Someone else knows it! 😃
People should not be this ignorant. They should know there is a difference. Video games are not new at this point. Home video games have been around since the late 70s-early 80s. I am 52, my generation grew up back in the early 80s. We had 3 main systems back then. Atari, Intellivision and Colecovision. Just as today you have three main systems-PlayStation, Nintendo and Xbox. What I am getting at is that people my age certainly should know that there are multiple systems that only play designated games because we were playing video games back when we were teenagers and people of my parents age (70-80) should know this as well because they were buying video games for their kids back in the 1980s. I dont know if what I am trying to explain makes sense but one last thing. You suggested having them take a picture of what they are wanting. Now you just sent a bunch of senior citizens into Walmart to hassle them for some polaroid film for a outdated camera that no longer exists!
my grandparents would always just give my mom money for christmas and she would go buy presents
They always call everything a Nintendo or a gameboy and it gets really weird sometimes
Nintendo marketing department smiles everytime someone calla a console a Nintendo, or just Mario as a general representative of all videogames.
My dad is rely good with games and used to play alot of game alike halo he knows vidoe games well but one time he called my dc a Gameboy I guess its not a bad mistake since it's not to far off Gameboys are the parent of the DS basically
These videos heal me on a spiritual level. Thanks Fanta 😂. On a serious note, they were an amazing thing to look forward to when I was in an awful bout of depression. Thanks to you and the FantaCrew for everything 🥰
Love the topic idea! Can't wait to listen! Oh dude, I've worked at a small town ISP / IT company for 17 years, the stories of old people I could tell.
Enjoy watching your videos - keep em coming - thanks for the A + content (and Eric)
This is the best Games Stop related video I have seen so far. Brilliant. I work in a sweet shop which is a different market as you do get older generations in for sweets that have been around longer then me. My favourite is " Have you got any lightbulbs" as it used to be a discount store. You just take it as it comes :)
Yep I like the funny and unaware old person you describe . Even thou I'm no spring chicken were I work in (retail/clothing) is 70% older people who are in their 70's . They are challenging half time and the other half are actually nice people . Your channel does a lot in entertainment with games and yours and Eric's experiences I enjoy . Maybe videos of you'all seeing a movie or after talking ,ranting or reviewing it afterwards would be cool . Whatever ya do I'm sure will be great!
This video is hilarious and awesome. Probably my favorite so far.
My question is WHY isn't there children or grandchildren with them at the store.
Yes! Damn I love this channel and have witnessed this first hand as well. Thanx fanta rants.
I gave this vid a like before even seeing it. The topic alone deserves it.
I work retail at one of the major wireless companies and ever since i found your channel i watch every video religiously. So many similar stories😂🤣. Love your content. I particularly like the wallmart useless manager stories.lol
Dude my grandma is chill. She actually sat down with me one time and played Mario Kart 8. She also sat down and watched me play Arkham city, and understood everything that was going on. That’s why I love my grandma
My mom used to call every console I ever had the nintendo, My grandpa called them all ataris. My Aunt used to always want newer generation games but refused to buy a newer gen console. She had an NES and would keep waiting for Mario 64 to come out on it. At least she had a console from the right company for a mario game but didn't understand upgraded hardware needed for newer gen games.
Used to have old ladies coming in for Mario on the Xbox.
“What do you mean it doesn’t exist? My grandson said I could get it and he’s a very smart boy!”
Please do more fan stories in the tales from retail!
Once when I was at a local retro game store and they got a call asking I they take trade-ins for video games. (keep in mind, the store had the term gaming in it's name. )
Respect on the August Burns Red shirt.
My grandmother took us to the store and let us pick out what we wanted. We choose a gamecube. After 15 years at grandma's house and most of the stuff going missing, she finally let me have the cube and I found super smash brothers in an aggressive inline case.
Fanta, the theme of this channel is Greatness. Period. Maintain that dude.
So they pick out the ps2
"I'll get this" and then the put like
10 dollars on the counter...
"Well, this guy kinda looks like a loser, I'm sure he knows what he's talking about."
When I used to work for Fry's, one day, a lady handed me a flyer for a local Bashas and asked me where the sale item was. I told her that we are Fry's and Bashas was two lights down. That poor woman legitimately thought she was there and profusely apologized. Poor thing.
Love your content you deserve more subscribers
Thanks Dr. Phil!
What about interviewing current retail workers? What about commenting on others retail videos? There are tons of gamestop rant videos. What if you spent another day at the airport trying to recapture your experience from before? You could stay up all night without any food or water and record restaurant workers being rude and telling you "no handouts".
I kid you not fanta I’ve seen a Fortnite Monopoly
I believe it
Yeah im not suprised
My brother just bought farm monopoly and the pieces are farm equipment and the hotels are barns
Ive seen it
I've seen it too. Straight outta high school I worked in the family business which was a music store. Had those kinds of questions every day, not just older people either it was anybody. Years later after college I'd worked couple years in an electronics store n a lot more of the same and a lot worse. 1 example: a guy comes in to the electronics store with a pane of glass in his hands, looks around sees the electronics parts n tools on every shelf then keeps asking me where the glass blowers were. He was still there out front after closing time when we were going home still wondering why there wasn't any glass blowers working in an electronics store. I shit you not. After that I promised myself never to work retail again and I haven't.
I can die happy now that Fanta is proud of me. He’s the only one
any stories about Retail injuries - like people having heart attacks or falling. When i worked at wal-mart, about 1 once a month, some old dude would have a heart attack.
I have had a couple kinds of that brand of sparkling water, it tastes pretty good when you are not used to eating sugar.
This is why I've never had a truly bad shopping experience in GameStop, I go in already knowing what I want. I usually get along with the cashiers.
To my mom, even when she was younger, all game systems are Nintendo. Must be parent slang.
When I began working for the bank almost 13 years ago, it was a branch inside of Bashas and old people would wait in line, come up to a teller, and then get confused when they find out the Bashas customer service counter is next to us.
My grandmother keeps telling me how people tell her she can go to places to learn how to operate a real 'phone (as opposed to the piece of shit she has where the speaker that goes over the ear will not let you hear more than one syllable in ten), and so forth. And she tells us she always says to them "I don't wanna learn". I have not said it to her like this yet, but I am going to say one day, that is great. You are effectively making it a lot harder for us to communicate to you, making our ability to keep you abreast of plans that we involve you in a thousand times harder than it is to keep ourselves and our nearest in the loop. Things like that.
Perhaps the most insulting part is when she goes to read the physical printed bus timetables, and you keep showing her not only the timetable program on your 'phone, but literally how it is able to show you in real fukking time where the bus really is. I have absolutely said to her face, nobody reads those timetables anymore because, as you have told me more than once, the drivers call those timetables "wish lists". That the buses literally have tracking devices in them that my phone will show you their position up to thirty seconds ago.
What I am getting at is basically that there is being unaware and incompetent because you are elderly and time has taken its toll on you. But then there is also being perfectly compus and able in spite of being old, and choosing to be ignorant and stupid anyway. And the latter is so very, very aggravating.
Working at a fast food restaurant: there are 3 types of old people
The grumpy oldies
The shy oldies
And the really really nice old people.
As a Swede I heard you say "Bored Games"... XD
Made my day! TY!
I watch because my bad experinces with retail and the fact that ur a gamer is a top
Last week, I interacted with 2 geezers. One asked where an item in another department was and I directed him to the location in that department and he responded "Oh... it's in that department?" Not a hint of sarcasm. Then I also saw a guy "waiting to die". He was moving at like 1/8 speed and looked completely confused like he wasn't even sure what time it was, what country he was in, why their are other people wandering around moving at such high speeds, if he really came to buy what he was buying or if this was even the store he wanted to be at, or that he even understood how to use his hands, eyes or legs. If I was that old, I'd be like "Chop, chop, I got things to do before I croak!"
When he is wrapping up the video, you check and there are still 6 minutes left ...
Love your shirt, Fanta!! August Burns Red is a great band
If you branch out into more vlog type stuff, I'd love to see you do midnight launches, limited time events, and just random trips in general to stores you frequent. Doesn't have to be just at GameStop or Walmart; basically any store you visit on occasion. Hell, even a trip to a thrift shop with Eric would be cool to see all the crazy and weird shit you guys can find there. More gaming news and laidback reviews of games, music, or drinks are awesome too.
when you open your drink do it into the mic so we can hear the goodness
Always good videos to watch while high in company of nachos
Every time the August Burns Red shirt comes out I fanboy out
I've worked retail for almost 13 years, times it was pretty damn funny dealing with old people, and then of course sometimes I wanted to pull my hair out and tell them off. The ones that really get on my nerves are the ones that still know what's going on but refuse to even try to understand or learn to use the card reader. I realize a lot of old people really don't know or can't learn how to use them, but there's ones who can learn and use them but refuse them, and it gets really annoying...they act like the world owes them something because of their age, so they expect everyone to do everything for them.
Entertaining stories and nice ABR shirt!
The elderly coming in looking for big chungus
my parents still call all consoles (and pcs) a pokemon. i was really into pokemon in like 6th grade and i'd always say "i'm playing pokemon" when someone asked me what i was playing, so they just assumed it's the console name
also my grandma used to call skateboards "skaters"
A great plot twist would be the grandparents actually being knowledgeable and doing this on purpose to mess with people.
@Fanta Thankyou for addressing the ones who watch the video to the very end.
Woah just listening to this is getting me frustrated and tired. Respect to you for actually dealing with this stuff
im a part time wheelie,, the door thing, i usually can open a door with no trouble, and i dont like help with door BUT HERES WHY ....many people like to stand in the door to hold it open, or reach there arm around and pushing t he door open, stil leaning in the door, there poor shopulder about to pop out of joint and 9 times outta 10 theyre still in the way, i mean most people cant walk through a door being BLOCKED by a ''helpful'' person.... so when people open a dor by grabbing itand standing out with the door, great, very helpful, thank
you, but ssssooo many peopleinsuist on getting in the door to hold it open which means they are usually in the way