Two work anecdotes to share, both from customers who came in the store today.<\/p>\n
A woman came in early this morning. “I need that new Smackdown<\/i> game,” she said with an uncertain tone in her voice. “Smackdown versus Meat<\/i>.”<\/p>\n
“Smackdown versus Meat<\/i>?” I repeated, not quite sure what I’d heard. “Would you possibly mean Smackdown versus Raw<\/i>?”<\/p>\n
“That’s it!” she exclaimed.<\/p>\n
Okay, someone had raw meat on the brain.<\/p>\n
The other craziness came later in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
A grandfather came in with his grandson. The grandfather had an avuncular look to him–jowly, a little heavy, thinning hair, but a face I’d say had a happy look to it. He brought me three games–NBA Live 97<\/i> for the computer, and two games for the PlayStation 2, NBA Live 06<\/i> and Star Wars Episode III<\/i>. “What’s the difference between these?” he asked.<\/p>\n
“This one,” I said, taking the NBA Live 97<\/i>, “is a game for the computer, so you’d play that on a personal computer, while these other two”–pointing at the two PlayStation 2 games–“are game you’d play on your PlayStation 2 console.”<\/p>\n
“What’s that?” he asked. “A PlayStation 2?”<\/p>\n
“It’s a video game console that connects to a television.”<\/p>\n
The customer turned to his grandson, who was standing about fifteen feet away playing the demo of Major League Baseball 2K6<\/i> in the store’s XBox console. “Josh! What do you have at home? Do you have a PlayStation 2?”<\/p>\n
The grandson, Josh, said nothing, intent on the baseball game.<\/p>\n
“Josh! I’m talking to you!” The more the grandfather yells, the more pronounced his Brooklyn accent becomes.<\/p>\n
Again, the grandson says nothing.<\/p>\n
“Yo, Josh,” I said loudly, attempting to get his attention, “what games do you have at home? What do you play?”<\/p>\n
At last, he turns and looks at his grandfather and me. “I’ve got the Mario baseball game…”<\/p>\n
“You’ve got a GameCube,” I said.<\/p>\n
“…and the Mario fighting game…”<\/p>\n
Super Smash Brothers<\/i>. “That’s GameCube.”<\/p>\n
“…and Mario Sunshine<\/i>…”<\/p>\n
“He’s got a GameCube,” I said to the grandfather, hoping that Josh would stop his list of games.<\/p>\n
But no, Josh continues reciting games. I shook my head. He would name a game, and it would be, like the others he’d named, a GameCube exclusive title, and I’d say quickly, “GameCube!”<\/p>\n
Eventually Josh ceased rattling off the names of the games he owned, and at that point I was able to help his grandfather find games for Josh’s console. Even though Josh was pretty certain that his GameCube did not, in fact, work.<\/p>\n
Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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