Well, the exclusive games have been horrible up until this point such as... Tenchu for the DS, that game got horrid reviews.
Yesterday I was shopping at gamestop, and while I HAVE moved 90% of my video game shopping online, i decided to buy some stuff, the store was VERY crowded and there was barely enough room for one person to stand at the register and pay and one person to browse the ps2 games lined up on the wall.
I was extremely dissastisfied with the products sold to me. I purchased a copy of Dr Mario/puzzle league for the gba that was supposed to be new, however when i got home i discovered the paper insert that holds the cart was missing. This was supposed to be a new game that I paid the full new price for, a new game should not be missing a piece of the product. This game was pulled from a drawer and was not even a display copy.
Ok next this is what really ticked me off, I was sold a used copy of pinball of the dead, when i got home i discovered the game cart had umm... a lot of really deep chew marks on it. It was also filthy and of course, did not work. It looks like someone shot a BB gun through the game. The fact that they sold me a game that they did not test, and in that condition makes me not want to go into the stores anymore. I did not have time to check the merchandise before I left due to the crowded situation of the store, because there was literatly no room to stand in the store at all. This is NOT something I should have to worry about though at a gamestop store, as a customer I should ONLY be sold working products, and I should not have to be worried about checking them for completeness or for things like I described above. New products should also be sold to me as NEW, and not incomplete.
Haven't you people ever heard of rechargeable batteries, they are extremely inexpensive and can provide years upon years of battery power for kids toys, and all your electronics. I have been using rechargeable batteries for about 4-5 years now and i have not managed to kill a set yet. AA and AAA are the most common sizes availible but they have C and D adaptors so if you need battery power for devices that use C and D batteries all you have to do is stick an AA battery in a C/D adaptor and viola, your ready to go. No more buying expensive disposable batteries!
Everyone here is whining about how toys suck up battery power yet no one thinks about going out to buy rechargeable batteries. They even have alkaline/nimh hybrid batteries if you are extremely picky and need something that does not lose its charge when not in use, the sanyo eneloop batteries are supposed to be very good from what i hear.
I do think toys are going the wayside unless its something extremely high tech, this christmas the toy departments were full but try to find a certain video game system or game in stock and forget it, most video game departments were literatly fully empty with only a few lone games in stock. Yet the toy dept's were full. Thankfully we have online shopping now though, so all of this can eaisly be avoided.
Traditional toys tend to work well for younger kids, those under 6 mostly. I have found if you give them coloring books and crayons they are very happy. If you don't give them something simple like that then they will just toss it aside for a different toy and you wasted your money on something. I find that most kids in general toss their toys aside after just a few min of play unless its something extremely compelling; for a video game or a computer game, or tv show. Kids have no imagination nowdays, you can blame this on the poor parenting skills of the majority of parents, and the fact thats its a lot easier to stick the kid in the corner with the gameboy/ other video game system for hours than to go outside and gasp... actually play with the kid. I read an article somewhere that says they have to teach kids how to have an imagination because no kids have that skill anymore, since the computer and videogames do all the imagining for them.
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Well, the exclusive games have been horrible up until this point such as... Tenchu for the DS, that game got horrid reviews. Yesterday I was shopping at gamestop, and while I HAVE moved 90% of my video game shopping online, i decided to buy some stuff, the store was VERY crowded and there was barely enough room for one person to stand at the register and pay and one person to browse the ps2 games lined up on the wall. I was extremely dissastisfied with the products sold to me. I purchased a copy of Dr Mario/puzzle league for the gba that was supposed to be new, however when i got home i discovered the paper insert that holds the cart was missing. This was supposed to be a new game that I paid the full new price for, a new game should not be missing a piece of the product. This game was pulled from a drawer and was not even a display copy. Ok next this is what really ticked me off, I was sold a used copy of pinball of the dead, when i got home i discovered the game cart had umm... a lot of really deep chew marks on it. It was also filthy and of course, did not work. It looks like someone shot a BB gun through the game. The fact that they sold me a game that they did not test, and in that condition makes me not want to go into the stores anymore. I did not have time to check the merchandise before I left due to the crowded situation of the store, because there was literatly no room to stand in the store at all. This is NOT something I should have to worry about though at a gamestop store, as a customer I should ONLY be sold working products, and I should not have to be worried about checking them for completeness or for things like I described above. New products should also be sold to me as NEW, and not incomplete.
Haven't you people ever heard of rechargeable batteries, they are extremely inexpensive and can provide years upon years of battery power for kids toys, and all your electronics. I have been using rechargeable batteries for about 4-5 years now and i have not managed to kill a set yet. AA and AAA are the most common sizes availible but they have C and D adaptors so if you need battery power for devices that use C and D batteries all you have to do is stick an AA battery in a C/D adaptor and viola, your ready to go. No more buying expensive disposable batteries!
Everyone here is whining about how toys suck up battery power yet no one thinks about going out to buy rechargeable batteries. They even have alkaline/nimh hybrid batteries if you are extremely picky and need something that does not lose its charge when not in use, the sanyo eneloop batteries are supposed to be very good from what i hear.
I do think toys are going the wayside unless its something extremely high tech, this christmas the toy departments were full but try to find a certain video game system or game in stock and forget it, most video game departments were literatly fully empty with only a few lone games in stock. Yet the toy dept's were full. Thankfully we have online shopping now though, so all of this can eaisly be avoided.
Traditional toys tend to work well for younger kids, those under 6 mostly. I have found if you give them coloring books and crayons they are very happy. If you don't give them something simple like that then they will just toss it aside for a different toy and you wasted your money on something. I find that most kids in general toss their toys aside after just a few min of play unless its something extremely compelling; for a video game or a computer game, or tv show. Kids have no imagination nowdays, you can blame this on the poor parenting skills of the majority of parents, and the fact thats its a lot easier to stick the kid in the corner with the gameboy/ other video game system for hours than to go outside and gasp... actually play with the kid. I read an article somewhere that says they have to teach kids how to have an imagination because no kids have that skill anymore, since the computer and videogames do all the imagining for them.