I Spent $400+ On Old Games At GameStop And...
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- Опубликовано: 26 дек 2022
- We're back at SantaStop and... what's this? GameCube games?! Black Friday sales?! Missing games?! This one is off the chain as we get into our biggest GameStop unboxing yet.
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Matty is single handedly keeping GameStop alive lol.
Him and Mr. Wright way
Nah I shop at gamestop. Alot of people do.
true gamestop whale
Nope, i spend there all of my money too....GME is the the best and fuk Amazon or any other retailer ...only GameStop for me!!!
@@jaroslawratajkowski3901 Fuck Gamestop, they deliberately throw away DS and 3DS game cases.
Army of Two games are so underrated. Love the local co-op aspect of them. Wish the publisher would do a remaster of all 3
Woah there's a third one ?!?
@@babylonisfallen4411 yeh. The third one you take down a cartel
damn a remaster of all three would be great. I never knew about the third one but I loved the first two. The second and third games aren't even backwards compatible.
Not underrated they made 3 of them
The moment when Matty found out that the disc for KH: Melody of Memories wasn’t there was like when we watched Sora disappear in KH3 😂😂
As someone who works at Gamestop Canada, the new/preowned game is something that actually happens quite often behind the scenes. Like when Gamestop buys new games at a discount from dead video games stores, they put them in "used" condition for whatever reason, probably to push people to buy them faster.
It's probably to cut the publisher's cut out of the price.
There was a pretty big controversy when the first Xenoblade came out on Wii in NA because I believe it was exclusive to Gamestop and in limited numbers. So what Gamestop would do is open all these new games and sell them for $90 USD used instead of $60 USD new like they were supposed to. I think there were some news articles about it. They may have done a similar thing with the Metroid Prime Collection on Wii as well. There's a good reason why Gamestop is so hated lol.
@@Eliterubberduck True, and I thought about that, but that was them marking used so they could choose the price and make it higher-- these brand new / marked as used games would make more sense to be marked as used to not include the publisher's cut. I assume in their system it separates the used and new games into sales numbers since the margins from the used games are purely GameStop's to keep. If they purchased games from another store and then co-mingled the inventory with their main supply it would likely mess a lot of things up.
@@Eliterubberduck Oh damn. I never knew that about Xenoblade and it's one of my most favorite games ever lol
If they're buying games from other stores, they're used right at the moment of purchase.
Thank you for going back to the “what’s in the box” format. It’s just such a different beast than “my recent video game pick ups… that I knew exactly what I was getting”.
Whenever I get a bunch of games from GameStop online, I take any game that doesn't have original case back to my nearest store. The best part is, they will give you full value back, even if it was free or at a discount.
As a gamestop employee: the games that are labeled new but are opened are usually the display case that was opened to put on the shelf, we usually send out or sell the opened new copies when there are no other sealed copies
Its still a new game its just not a sealed game
Every time I watch these videos I love them and I get to thinking… “When is Matty going to iron his backdrop?” 😝
One time I traded in 3 switch games to Gamestop. I mistakingly left one of the cartridges at my house. They didn't even open the damn things and gave me trade credit for all 3. I didn't realize I pulled one over on them til about 2 months later when I found the cartridge under my entertainment set.
Damn I should do that
😂😅
I got the dishonored definitive edition code! I never played the dishonored series. Thanks Matty! Have a great new year. Love watching your videos bro!
Enjoy it! It's such an awesome game, up there with TES and Fallout for me
In regards to the new games not being sealed and or have dints and other damage on them. I worked for a major video game store in the uk and how we sorted new games that we got from a delivery, for example: Say we get 10 copies of a game, we would unseal one of the new copies, remove the discs and manuals etc, put those into a a case or sleeve of their own and use the game case that we just unsealed as a display box for the shop floor and the guts of that game would be put aside in storage with the other 9 copies. And when the unsealed game case is on the shop floor they could get damaged or gain wear and tear from people browsing, and when all 9 copies from storage are sold, the last copy of the game is sold with the game case that was on display. It may be the case that GameStop uses a similar work model or it could be just unfortunate 😅
that is the exact same case actually
I ordered a stack of "new" games from GameStop over the holidays and I'd say 70% where opened. The worst was one in a pre owned case with pre owned scribbled out and they wrote in new. My local GameStop employees are great though and they are helping me get a case for that one game.
While most where $10 games a couple where $30-$40 and of course those where not sealed.
One had the cover art ripped, again my local GameStop fixed this and exchanged it for a sealed copy.
Game stop opens new games to put the disk behind the counter so people cant steal
@@masteroflight7296 yeah. Usually its only one copy though and the rest is sealed behind counter
The white gunk in the middle is the stuff they use when it’s in the resurface machine. If you see that it’s a dead giveaway that a disc has been resurfaced.
Merry Christmas Mr Matty!! 🎅 🎄 🎁
The Matty content I crave!
“I need to support Atlas” buys the game used…
Former GS employee here, the reason some “new” games are open is because they were the gutted copy that was displayed on the wall in a store. They’re supposed to put a sticker on the side or put them in a re-seal bag. It sucks, but that’s how they do it
Opened isn't new no matter what reason they give. I turned down several copies of that nonsense over the years before I finally walked away from GameStop for good. Idk how they stay in business tbh with all the scummy things they do
lol i worked at gamestop, we took home the new games to play them and just told people it was the last display copy...so ya, the "last copy" excuse is really cuz an employee took it home lmao
Former Gamestop Employee here, Demon's Souls was "moved to used", which is a thing they will sometimes do with new games that sit in their inventory for an outrageous amount of time. Often times this is because, since Gamestop can set their own prices for pre-owned games, the game's used price outstrips its massively depreciated new MSRP. Like back when Xenoblade Chronicles was only on the Wii and was a Gamestop exclusive in the US, they would have brand new copies marked as "used" so they could sell them for upwards of $70. This also happened with Metroid Prime Triolgy. As for any "New" game that is opened like the Arkane collection there, that's because it was a display copy from a retail location and you got what was their last copy. Displays are made for new games by cutting open sealed copies, putting the contents inside a differently colored (white) envelope than the (yellow) used games, and then keeping them in a separately filed drawer. None of this is me excusing their actions- I hate gutted store displays, they suck- just explaining why they are how they are.
Some speculative insight on Demon's Souls not having a manual- it also has the much later PS3 branding than a game from 2009 should have- Demon's Souls originally had the vertical PS3 lable with the "spider man" font and the red PS3 spine stamp. That greatest hits copy is using the post-slim PS3 branding that they used up until the PS4 came out, and my best guess is that they reprinted a bunch of copies of Demon's Souls in late 2012-2013 maybe after Dark Souls got big, and they avoided reprinting the game's very thick and expensive manual as a cost saving measure.
Interestingly enough I bought a used copy of Demon Souls with the manual from GameStop back when they had a huge clearance on PS3 games circa 2017.
Buying a mystery game box from eBay is always good content to watch!
This!
I know you are getting a lot of "former GameStop employee" comments so one more wouldn't hurt I guess. Ha. Whenever we got games, we would have to open them and put the disc in those white or yellow envelopes and lock them in a drawer behind the counter. This is known as "gutting". Then the case goes on display. If someone sees the case on display and brings it up to the counter, the disc is taken out from the drawer and then put in the game case and sold. Then another case from the back will be put up on display.
So there's definitely been conversation of what counts as new since the game hasn't been played before so the condition of the disc is new, but the package of the game case itself has been unsealed.
I guess it may make the process faster between the worker and consumer with getting the game and protection of the game. Like someone can't just come in and grab a game and run out since they aren't behind glass cases or tied down like in other stores. But the register process has always been sort of convoluted so I think you could throw that theory out the window. Ha.
I assume Demon Souls got rid of the manual for the greatest hits to save money lol
I’m from the U.K so not familiar with GameStop but this outlets genuinely seems so amateur. It’s crazy to see how inconsistent they are with their orders.
They aren’t amateur, they are corporate in the worst ways possible.
Gamestop is just the US name for GAME in the UK. Same company
@@hemocorekid939 ohhh thanks for clarifying 👍🏼
@@hemocorekid939 i don’t think so GameStop is EB Games and the old Babbage’s
@@hemocorekid939I’m looking into it, and not finding anything indicating they’re related…
You always remind me that I haven’t watched Reservoir Dogs in a long time. Love the videos.
Sadly you won't ever get a manual from a PS2/GC/OG XBox game if it came from the GameStop factory in Texas. Since the manuals from that era had the section in the back to write notes in, someone at corporate decreed that the manuals should be tossed b/c if one had naughty stuff written in it and it was sold to someone they were afraid the parents would go to the press and raise holy hell about it.
When the former lead person of the GameStop TX warehouse posted that in the GS Reddit a few years ago all the employees in there went full shocked Pikachu face. Nothing they could say would convince corporate to change that policy.
In other words, start stockpiling manuals and inserts from that era ...
The stuff in the middle of the disk isn't from the customer that traded the disk in, it's residue from GameStop's terrible resurfacing machine. If you go to a retro store with a good resurfacer (as long as theirs has the ability to do Gamecube as not all do) you'll be able to get that cleaned up no problem.
@@MSUHitman This could have been easily avoided if the GameStop employees were trained better. What you do is you tape the inner circle part with tape, so that the part doesn't get damaged while the disc is resurfacing. Maybe the employees knew that and were just lazy to tape it out, to be fair by they low paychecks I don't blame them.
Here in the UK our Game Stop (Game) binned all their manuals as a customer found some drugs in the instructions
@@Official_RetroMania The resurfacing is done at the factory in Texas. GameStop stores don't have resurfacing machines.
@@MSUHitman Ohhh ok
I LOVE these type of videos!
You 100% got me as a fan when you commented on the 2009 Wolfenstein. That game was so freaking good and yes you were right it was raven
The gunk build up is from a disc resurfacer. The machine used has an attachment that you clip the gamecube game into. It has enough of a gap between attachment and disc to get some of the disc resurfacer liquid in the center of the disc. I used to work at a game store that would resurface games so I know the ins and outs of the retail video game world
That version of Demon Souls is actually a 2019 reprint edition of the game and doesn't come with a manual. You can tell by the ps4 looking icons on the back cover. I have the same one. I think it's honestly a pretty rare variant of the game.
Agree with your take on limited run. Want your item shipped in a box? Pay up! And they’ll send it in a couple of months if they feel like it.
Limited run and gamestop can die and go away.
The white stuff in the center of the discs is some of the resurfacing paste that got in between the layers of the inner ring.
I’d love to see a review of Total Overdose, Midway’s NARC from 2005, Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, and Metal Arms: Glitch in the System. Forgotten bangers from 6th gen.
Just a little tidbit about that Demon's Souls copy. It could've been an unsold New copy that was moved to the Pre Owned distribution status in their system because they get rid of the New SKU as they do with most old titles after a certain amount of time. The new Dishonored game was definitely new, but it was a floor copy where the game was opened and the case was displayed on the floor while the game was in a sleeve behind the counter. It is still sold as "New" because it's never been played or even left the store in most cases. The reason you get them from online orders is because most online orders are actually pulling inventory directly from store shelves and packaged/shipped by the enployees instead of from a distribution center
Source: I worked at GameStop for a year in college and these were very common instances that always confused customers
Great video, want more of this and the local game store.
The way you said "Thays disgusting." Had me going
i worked at gamestop, we took home the new games to play them and just told people it was the last display copy...so ya, the "last copy" excuse is really cuz an employee took it home lmao
I can attest to the “new pre-owned” existing. When Fallout 4 released I bought my copy a few days after release and it was listed as used for $50. I didn’t know what was up with it and the employee was equally confused but congratulated me on getting a brand new game for a discount lol
FO4 kinda sucks, I have it for PC(pc a lot better), and it came for free with my ps4 system with other games free: ( and still in plastic. Consoles tend to give out beginner freebies; I still have a lot of them from ps3/xbox freebies and others. I tend to get rid of the boxes, takes up too much space in my home.
I remember Fallout 4 just being a strange release overall, here in Australia EB Games (GameStop, same company) sold the game on Launch Day for like $69... Usually games are $100 New (especially a big release like F4) and I also got the couple hundred page Strategy Guide AND Art/Lore Book for FREE with it 🤷♂️ no idea what the hell was going on there 😂
Gamestop has sold new games as pre-owned before. Besides the obvious Xenoblade on the Wii, I've bought Vita games that were new but they marked them as used since they no longer had a new price in their system.
The new Dishonored was apparently on the shelf in a store at one time.
How in the hell did he even find GC for sale? I check on Gamestop pretty frequently and I never see retro games on there anymore. Ever since the pandemic they have been cleared out. Very confused.
The version of the Power Rangers fighting game you bought it the one to get physically. It comes with everything except the 4th season of character DLC on the disk. (You get the first 3 seasons and the Ryu/Chun Li pack on the disk)
YES! I’ve been waiting for this
GC/PS2/OG xbox games are direct from the corporate warehouse in Texas! They have a policy of not sending retro games with manuals b/c retro games had the section at the end to add vour own personal notes.
I assume they were worried someone would draw or write naughty things & parents would go to the media about it so corporate decided to just throw out retro manuals to be safe??
He doesn't post there anymore b/c I don't think he works at GS anymore…but one of the lead people at the warehouse originally posted this on the GS Reddit & it blew everyone's mind.
The gunk you sometimes see in the middle of the disc is the resurfacing fluid, which sometimes gets between the layers of the disc so you can’t always get it clean again
HOLY SHIT!! No game in the box is a new low wtf i almost had hope for gamestop 😂😂😂
Good thing you purchased Balan on cartridge, so that you will forever have access to the best game ever.
*(Dancing Farmer intensifies)*
Former GS assistant manager here. So GameStop sells new "pre-owned" games once they've essentially paid what they owe to the distributor. Usually with games that are VERY old in that generation. They convert the game to "pre-owned" for their own record keeping and then can make full profit off the game. If it rang ad new, they'd only make their $5-10. And the "new" opened games, you got their gutted store copy because the online orders are just sent to random stores who then ship it to you. Generally they pick the worst condition copy because they don't have to hear in person customers complain.
I had the same reaction to Balan Wonderworld lol
Oh Matty boy, always choosing the path of violence and misery with these Gamestop unboxings.
Yooo man that's a lot of money to be giving to gstop, but Merry Christmas man, I hope you had a good day with your fam and friends and hope you got some cool games!
400 on games is a hell of an investment for a video. Respect. Like comment, and subscribed 💪
See, generally if I buy new at GameStop, I take the case from the shelf to the register, then they hand me a sealed copy from behind the counter.
Merry Christmas! (Even though it's like 10 days until Christmas here in Russia)
Some amazing pick ups! Really excited to see reviews on them.
Hello mother russia :)
The gunk in the inner spindle of GameCube games is resurfacer liquid that seeps in.
Great video Matty. You think we’ll ever get a video on your game collection sometime?
" It's so wavy you could ride a surfboard on it" 😂 🏄♂️ 🏄♀️
Seeing those game cube games just makes me want to replay the old metroid prime series
I had the same thing happen when I ordered a Harvest Moon game for my daughter. I ordered and paid for a new copy, the collector's edition, and an open box containing just the game arrived. I called customer support and was told the box art and game were never sold, so that allowed them to claim it was new. I asked about the missing collector's edition items and was told my copy, though advertised as the collector's edition, was, in fact, the normal edition. The box art started otherwise, but you simply can not win with these people.
gamestops price on most older games is awesome they barley try to compete with ebay prices like all the other game stores
I used to manage an independent game store so I can explain the “New” game being opened thing. When we got in a shipment of a game (let’s say 10 copies for this example) we would keep 9 of them sealed behind the counter organized in drawers, but one of the copies would get “gutted” (idk if that is an industry term or just what we called it). What this meant is we took the disc and all codes out of the case and put them in sleeves behind the counter so that the case could be one the shelves on the floor to represent we have the game new. When the floor copy sold it meant it was our last copy and we would take it into the back where we had a sealer that would re-shrink wrap the game. It wasn’t the style of shrink wrap so a collector could easily tell the difference, but it was good for the average consumer. As a small store, we couldn’t afford to custom make cases for each game that came out as we essentially only made a couple of dollars on new games anyways, but GameStop can definitely afford to/already do with the preorder boxes they have on shelves.
While I wasn’t (and still am not) a fan of it, I understand the practice of it for smaller companies.
Gutting is def industry language, we used it when I worked at EB years ago and this is exactly what we did with new games too.
Good stuff man looking for the next
That’s the greatest video game juke of all time 😂😂
Keep it up Matty!
The stuff in the disc ring is the comppund they use to resurface the disc. That's why it doesnt have many scratches.
I love these videos lol
I used to work at GameStop and we would have to tell people they need to take their game outside and open it up before bringing it in to trade it if it was still sealed because we weren’t allowed to take in unopened games. Also, you can receive and open copy of a brand new game if the store has only one copy in stock and that is the copy they put on their shelves for people to handle and look at.
I had the same experience. i bought demon slayer ps4 preowned. Ended up receiving that game sealed completely new. I was like ok, paid a fair price for a $60 and got it half price
Love “ whats in the box”
Matty: *Spends $400 on GameStop*
Me: Dear god. May God have mercy on his poor man's soul.
That gunk sandwiched in the inner ring is the compound used for resurfacing.
i ordered some n64 games back when they started to sell n64 games again and they were actually decent. no messed up stickers even
That “gunk” in the middle of the discs is residue of resurfacing fluid getting stuck between the layers of the disc
If you trade in a brand new game game stop still considers it pre-owned. I bought a ps5 bundle with MLB and traded in instantly even still sealed they put the pre-owned sticker on it.
Great video man
the red ps3 game cases im really conflicted on bc on the one hand red is my favorite color but on the other a lot of first party ps3 games had more artwork on the reverse side of the box art which you can't see in the red cases. if they were transparent red it wouldn't quite have fixed it but it would've been better at least
Matty, maybe try Whatnot next for used retro games. The prices aren't going to be any better than Gamestop but you'll probably score some much better quality cases/discs.
That kingdoms Heart Melody of Memory was actual robbery lmao, I paid for it last year new from GameStop for 20 bucks.
I bought a copy of spartan total warrior on the PS2 and it arrived without a disc. Asked for them to send another which they did and the second one came fully sealed, with manual and disc 😍
I also bought some games during the buy 2 get 1 sale. I ordered Skylanders imaginators (because it’s worth a surprisingly amount) and I received superchargers instead.
Balan is actually a decent looking character but that’s about it I tried to play this game and I gave up so early on one of the only games I could not finish
I’m a not surprised gamecube games are basically everywhere lately for some reason really easy to get those games
The demon soul's one is easy to explain. Basically - if the disk is loose and they can hear it rattling around, they aren't allowed to sell it as new. It's classed as either defective or pre-owned.
The more you know. 😊😊
That's 90 precent of new games a buy are rattling around.
We loved SMB on the GameCube! I still have my original copy but idk if I have the case 😕
I researched the Demon's Soul's no manual because I got the same thing earlier this year. Seems to be a reprint (2019) greatest hits. Notice the back is PS4 box art style and not PS3.
The cheaper GH version didn't come with a manual.
Red is my favourite colour so I actually like the PlayStation hits cases 😂
The only explanation I can give for the missing game is stores were understaffed this holiday and holiday hires weren't trained to use the register so on Black Friday they were tasked with pulling all the orders for the Ship From Store tm orders such as yours, and unfortunately you got one of the ones that didn't pay enough attention to what they were doing.
I had to fix an issue at my store where the store about 6 miles down sent someone the completely wrong game by mixing up the orders.
Also an entire order has to be fulfilled by one store. If any part of the order can't be fulfilled, then the order is passed to the next closest store that supposedly has all the items.
@@MSUHitman it could also be that someone pulled all the games but accidentally left it out without realizing it. Although it is a very good and logical explanation for the incident
course this does leave you in the awkward position of having to try and convince them it wasnt there from the begining. most dont film themselves unboxing lol.
Personally it doesn’t bother me what type of games you buy i really enjoy watching these type of videos
Honestly I'm down to watch you buy for any console/handheld.
Its says New and isnt sealed because it was probably there last copy and they have to have a display case of the new copy games on shelfs
I bet he'd love Ratchet & Clank games; it's my favorite game series ❤️
You might like to try a mystery box from double jump video games. U can choose the consoles and price.
I just picked up Resident Evil Revelations 1 & 2 for Xbox Series X. Stoked to try them! Huge Arkane fan too
Kingdom hearts not having a disc is the new low? Lol someone messed up there
Fun video, keep it up!
The weird stuff on the edge of Super Monkey Ball 2 was most likely from a sticker I've seen discs like that before that are just ripped off stickers
I was crying laughing when kingdom hearts didn’t come with the game at all lol😂
At GameStop had new preowned games! They'd open them to take out the flyers that promoted digital games and digital platforms. lols.
That super Mario was a steal 25$ with a case
My hodl stocks just went up. Thanks, Matty.
I recently got a game with no case, in a sleeve with a "new" sticker on it. And I did order it new
I like these types of videos
Roadhouse
Lol I spent half that on 1 game just the other day… granted it was a flawless copy of Smash 64 (cib), but still. Apparently my local retro game shop had someone come in and dump several untouched games from the 80s and 90s that were gathering dust in storage for years like a time capsule. They even had a flawless cib copy of Mega Man 1 on NES running for $800 😭 I’d have happily bought it if I was stupidly rich
I got Mortal Kombat complete for genesis a year ago. Even had the original receipt in the case. GameStop does come through every now and then.