Oh yeah, I remember those Funcoland pricing papers. I still have some from 98-00.
Those were the good days. When you went inside a store just for video games, people eating lunch behind the counter on the floor,
free instructional manuals, and boxes. You can play Lufia II all day
long, including FFVIII, along with Bubble Bobble. Sometimes the staff
was disrespectful, but that changed, when the blue shirt employees
all turned into green shirts.
Then Gamestop moved, in extended hours, lowered pay. Fired manager, after manager, some who stayed were racist. while others
were cool. One guy cried and begged for his job, and all he could talk about his son, he never sees at home. I remember when the young
fathers were coming in the store, asking "when are they going to port
RE4 to the PS2". That was back when Capcom owned the 3d market,
alongside square ( you know when Square made that dreamishly fantastic RPG "Crono Cross" but it had nothing to do with Trigger.
Then the evil racist manager, would lie about me getting my tee-shirt,
because she gave out all the tee-shirts when people left pre-orders,
instead of when people was picking up the games. Then she said "while supplies last", as an excuse. I even wrote a complaint, and then
she was like oh I remember you, I gave you a shirt ( Lying hate filled
abomination to our way of life ). Then a guy chased me out of the store one time, because me and him had a dialaug ( the guy was swinging at me ) , but I came back and apologize, shortly after.
Then I discovered he was stealing from the store register, when they moved him ( he requested to move back to the mall, instead of the mini-mall area ). He look just like the male character from RE0. With
him was another employee, who usted to work in software etc.
This one manager was a former navy officer, and he was the original Funcoland manager, when he found out he was going to be fired, he open all the draws, turned off all the cameras, and left the store unguarded, This woman who would work in that store, with long red hair, she continued to work in gamestop, becoming a manager, I think
she was around in EBgames for awhile but now she might be gone.
She was like "who told you to lay on my car" and "are you treathing me", that was back when sports was popular.
Yeah I just pretty much went from the funcoland years into gamestop, back to the funcoland years. The coolest thing was the store was like an free arcade.
Another funcoland, we would crack jokes all day long, until they got turned into gamestop. Our store was so peacefull.
