Hmm... I guess I'll be the first (ex) gamestop employee to reply. Yikes!

I'm just posting some random tidbits here about my experience so sorry if it all seems random.

I'm not a big fan of gamestop. I worked there for about 3 months and it was my second worst job ever (worst ever was Barnes and Noble :x) and I only really hated it when I started working there.

You get treated like crap as an employee. You're forced to offer every stupid deal and ask a million questions for every transaction. So to those of you that hate this, I understand, but please don't be jerks. They have to do it.

One good thing I can still say is that I think the Edge card is a decent deal. I didn't feel as guilty as I did selling B&N's rip-off card. You get a magazine and 10% extra on trade-in values and 10% off used games.

When looking at trade-ins, when I was first trained, my manager told me, "Get it refurbished if it looks bad, use your judgement." Then when I actually started doing trade-ins, my manager told me,"Well, yeah, but REALLY it just costs us more money to get it refurbished so pretty much everything is sold as is." And by "pretty much everything" he really meant, "everything". So a lot of stuff could be cleaned and could work but isn't, so the "Guaranteed to Work!" stuff is bull. But you will get a refund, so it's not so bad.

Yes new games are used sometimes. Employees are allowed to borrow new games. The only way you know if it's new is if you get a wrapped up copy. Something to keep in mind.

I too am very against the gutting thing. You're not allowed to return new games because of this. Oh! But you can get trade-in value of 20 bucks for that 60 dollar game you bought yesterday but was accidently the wrong one! That's the worst, I felt so guilty when this sort of thing happened. It's the way Gamestop looks out only for itself- "it doesn't matter if the customer got a defect, we'll lose money."

One of the good things is, the used games are a good price. I've bought quite a few cheap games that were in new condition.

I hated having to card everyone for Mature games. If I didn't card someone (even if they're OBVIOUSLY older than 17) I got a warning that I could be fined by the ESRB for 10 million dollars or some other bull. So I'm sorry people have to get carded but that's just the way it is. Get over it.

I think the reason most people hate gamestop is for the rip-off trade-in values. Now, I get that it doesn't seem fair that you get so little and they sell it for so much. But really, it's your choice to do it. It's a lot simpler than using ebay as you don't have to set up an auction and all. And they wanna make a profit, plus a lot of it will sit around and never get sold.

I have a $40 gift card still so I just went in there today to try and get ANOTHER PS2 memory card. The first one didn't work and this one has corrupt memory. So I now have to take a third trip to get a refund. I'm not buying one of their overpriced new ones though I'm ordering some new from somewhere else. I think this next trip to spend the remaining money will be my last.

I lost my old memory card and bought a used one the other day. It didn't work, was just a crappy off brand. I returned it for a used Sony one. I started by going to browser to delete the old files, just a bunch of crappy sports games. Anyway, there were a few corrupted files on there, which got me nervous. I tried deleting them but it kept saying "Delete Failed" so they're stuck :o

Is it ok to use this card? Or could it possibly harm my PS2? Also, could my saved games on it be corrupted too? How exactly does a file get corrupted? Does it just happen or is it the fault of the player?

Thanks for any help.

or your hand writing is rubbish :Pi-like-pie

Haha no I have pretty good handwriting. Also, Im not saying that I scribble a "K" quickly. I try writing it OVER and OVER again and it just doesn't recognize "K"s. I've tried writing them several different ways too. I kept losing the scramble game the other day because it wouldn't let me use the K SO ANNOYING, I DREW A PERFECT K TAKE IT!!!!!!!!!!:evil:

I'm having flashbacks to the Okami mini-game where you have to draw the little girl's symbols- it's the same case. You have to draw the same thing a million times before the game just finally accepts it. And sometimes you have to draw it a really weird way for it to work. That's why I'm asking, to see if anyone figured it out.

One of the only things that bothers me about Brain Age is that it has a hard time recognizing my voice. Especially in the Rock/Paper/Scissors game- it doesn't recognize "Scissors" however many times I try :roll:

Also, all letters seem to be recognized except "K"

What's up with that?!??! Does anyone know how to get past these problems?

I'd love to have Justin from Grandia if he's not taken.

Looking for some kid's games: something that's fun, but not too gory. Also, nothing that feels too "little-kiddish". For the PS2 and Nintendo DS. Thanks for any help!

i sit on a pyramat gaming chair. its sick. its got speakers in the back and u can turn up the bass. its mad cool. this is mine,

http://www.pyramat.com/S1500W/ its not the best one by pyramat but is great. heres there website if u want to c others. http://www.pyramat.com/patsfan4liferjn

I WANT ONE TOO!!!! :cry: no fair haha I need to start saving up for one of those.

I just sit on the couch :P

My little brothers recently got Resident Evil 4 from a friend and loved it. However, my mom wasn't thrilled as you can imagine. Now we need to replace this very fun (but not kid friendly) game with something that's fun, but not gory. Also, nothing that feels too "little-kiddish" as the boys hate things like that.

I personally don't play too many games that kids would find fun or that would be appropriate. I've gone through a few reviews on the site but with the amount of "Everyone" games there are for the PS2 I'm finding it a daunting task. I was thinking "Adventures of Cookie & Cream" would be fun because my sister and I had the earlier version when we were little and loved it. But it might be too hard...

Any help would be appreciated as these kids won't stop crying over Resident Evil being taken away :cry:

Also, I currently have a PS2 and nintendo DS but am planning on getting an xbox 360 (cuz I wanna play Lost Odyssey of course- w00t! haha) so please limit it to those games.

Thanks for any help!:D