Part 2 of FuncoLand (now called GameStop) Training Video circa 1998. Reveals the G.A.M.E.S. sales process and why you were offered a cleaning kit with every purchase.
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@transamman697 жыл бұрын
Seeing all those Original Playstations and N64s on the shelves make me feel good for some reason.
@coldplay0556 жыл бұрын
Made me get antsy. I keep thinking about it for my collection, I can just imagine the sales person, "Sir, are you sure you want 150 copies of Panzer Dragoon Saga?" Me: :maniacally laughing
@lastlantern33718 жыл бұрын
If a guy acted like this with me in a store, I'd start looking around for hidden cameras before slowly backing out of the place.
@freebird8895 ай бұрын
Did you even watch part 1?
@lastlantern33714 ай бұрын
@@freebird889Here's my 1 month late response to your 7 years late comment: I don't give a shit
@hellomynameis-ue7tc4 ай бұрын
@lastlantern3371 This is awesome! A 7 year long conversation.
@freebird8894 ай бұрын
@@lastlantern3371 life must be hard for you
@divefraggle7 жыл бұрын
I've never cleaned my n64 in over 20 years and still works perfectly.
@drud-dh4ev9 жыл бұрын
The N64 cleaning kit is the very meaning of bullshit like other commentators are saying. Never cleaned the cartridge slot pins once and it still works perfectly!
@VipGold845 жыл бұрын
Its a scam. Use it everytime you play so your would need to keep buying it.
@HerecomestheCalavera4 жыл бұрын
I've honestly never heard of an N64 not working due to the cartridge slot being dirty. Some games may need cleaning here 24 years later in 2020 but during the life of the system you wouldn't have needed to clean the games unless you lived either somewhere really filthy or just really dusty.
@CamaroSS22363 жыл бұрын
Mine worked great and I noticed the difference
@krazycheetah10 жыл бұрын
Those cleaning kits were worth it for the warranty alone. I used to manage a funcoland store and I can tell you that the 1 year warranty on all games purchased with in that year was worth it. The kits were 19.99 at most, and for that ALL purchases for that system were covered. I wish that they had never been sold to Gamestop. As a manager with that company I had the power to do whatever it took to make a customer happy. With gamestop they seem to be all about screwing the customer out of every penny they can.
@HerecomestheCalavera4 жыл бұрын
Copy that
@ericcartmansstrengthandpow59604 жыл бұрын
Did you work at the Funcoland me and my neighbor used to prank call all the time?
@dmprime2712 жыл бұрын
They actually fired me because I sold every game I could and never said a damn thing about cleaning kits. To show how pathetic they were, I was fired before an assistant manager that was stealing $100 bucks out of the safe every week. For all I know he was never fired.
@etho988 ай бұрын
That awesome- getting fired and all. Have you been fired some more from other jobs? That’d be awesome. F yeah…
@BeroOgden10 жыл бұрын
Even at their most nosy, I always found Funcoland employees to be much easier to deal with than what they evolved into after company buyouts.
@JesseColton8 жыл бұрын
I like how his son is older than he is.
@AllisonDancerChick19828 жыл бұрын
+Jesse Colton I couldn't past his goofy Mariners hat. I don't remember ever seeing baseball hats that looked like that in the late 90s!
@sam_rykien7 жыл бұрын
I remember hats like that. But it was more around 94-95. By this time if you were something like that you were a complete goof.
@AllisonDancerChick19827 жыл бұрын
I knew it! I knew I'd only see those hats in the mid-1990s!!!
@ericcartmansstrengthandpow59604 жыл бұрын
I wear a poofball hat.
@kevinw830511 жыл бұрын
1:25 He did 87 takes of that line and that was the best one
@SoldatCrinale10 жыл бұрын
I miss this store so freaking much. When my dad and I walked in, we werent pushed hard at all. We did get the kit and warranty but we came out with so many NES carts on the cheap.
@JoeCnNd3 жыл бұрын
I can pull my n64 out now and it would play perfect without any cleaning crap. Now NES needed some work.
@andreww121213 жыл бұрын
I really miss the 90's... :-(
@Whoo71110 жыл бұрын
"Turn a $30 purchase into a $70 one, fellow salespeople!"
@anthonystevenson56186 жыл бұрын
Cleaning your games every time you play them is absolutely nuts.
@HerecomestheCalavera4 жыл бұрын
So if I'm playing Mario 64 and I shut off the N64 but leave the cartridge in the system and come back tomorrow do I need to remove the cartridge and clean it before powering on the system? lol I wonder what there answer would be if somebody asked that? Probably "Oh most definitely! A clean game is always going to work better than a dirty game"
@HerecomestheCalavera8 жыл бұрын
Clean your games every time you play them? Now it doesn't hurt to clean once in awhile but every damn time you play it? I've never once cleaned my SNES carts or connector and have never had a problem with it since like 1992.
@TheLastLineLive8 жыл бұрын
Yeah that is probably TOO often honestly, I imagine it could wear out the contacts lol. Also nothing that a q-tip couldn't do.
@JesseColton8 жыл бұрын
Holy shit a Game Informer subscription was $20 a year in 1998? It's still that now... $20 was a lot more money in 1998
@miastrong1516 жыл бұрын
A lot more people read magazines in 1998. Back then, most people were still using dial-up internet.
@HerecomestheCalavera4 жыл бұрын
Do they still sell those magazines now in 2020? Who would want a magazine subscription now when you can look up anything about any game simply by using your phone?
@user-dv2hc8zt3o4 жыл бұрын
Shit man I remember a 12 month subscription for the Playstation Magazine cost $49.99 way back then because it came with the demo discs.
@Avrazael3 жыл бұрын
@@HerecomestheCalavera I believe so. Though, I stopped my subscription probably about a decade ago because Game Informer is horribly biased
@freakyfornash9 ай бұрын
@@HerecomestheCalavera Yeah, and same with newspapers, even if they still seem to sell just fine though!
@rdaws735 жыл бұрын
I still have my N64. Got it when it first came out. It's never been cleaned and still works with no issues.
@JonasPolsky12 жыл бұрын
Are the customers seeing Adam teleport back and forth from his nightmare game world, or are they in an artificial sub-nightmare that exists only in the Game Master's mind?
@Krymestone4 жыл бұрын
$19.98 is WAY out of my budget. Wait, $9.98? Sign me up!
@headzapp998 жыл бұрын
You're too pushy dude. I'll just take the game and never come back.
@JessicaSideways8 жыл бұрын
I wonder if this is why FuncoLand doesn't exist anymore...
@andreww12127 жыл бұрын
All of this nonsense with steps, procedures, acronyms, corporate greed and bullshit is what killed the retail industry. People don't want to be pressured into buying a shitty magazine and a cleaning kit when all they want is a game. This is why Amazon owns.
@KiloByte697 жыл бұрын
+andreww1212 Amazon is a corporation too, you silly libtard. You don't think they use similar sales techniques?
@vaddix99807 жыл бұрын
Amazon allows the consumer to buy what they want, without recommending or pressuring them into other sales, dippy.
@HerecomestheCalavera4 жыл бұрын
@@andreww1212 It is so stupid that corporate thinks the employees can actually make people buy all that extra garbage. If people aren't buying enough cleaning kits or magazine subscriptions it isn't because they don't want that trash it is because you as an employee aren't trying hard enough. People will buy what they want to buy, no worker is going to force them into something they want. If they try that they are likely to put the game back they came to buy and go get it from a different store. All the employee needs to do as far as customer service is concerned is say "Hey can I help you find anything" and if the person says "I'm just looking" then all they need to say is "Ok if you need anything let me know" People like that much more than a pushy salesmen following them around the store pestering them the whole time to buy stupid shit that they don't want or need.
@billyskittles27729 жыл бұрын
An eraser is the best, safest way to properly clean games. That was one of the best things I learned back in the 90's from going to CES shows.
@miastrong1516 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure Chuck Simmons is on a registry somewhere. He needs to quit busting Adam's cheeks.
@AngrySanta8 жыл бұрын
It's missing the section where they offer you 3.00$ for a newly bought 70.00$ game for trade in.
@uTubeNoITube8 жыл бұрын
Thats Game Stop, not Funcoland...
@AngrySanta8 жыл бұрын
uTubeNoITube Funcoland is/was gamestop
@uTubeNoITube8 жыл бұрын
Angry Santa GameStop bought Funcoland along with several other small'ish franchies, but GameStop is NOTHING at all like FuncoLand was. GameStop sucks dick. FuncoLand was awesome.
@AngrySanta8 жыл бұрын
uTubeNoITube Trust me, it wasn't. They constantly peddled system cleaning products and disc cleaning products that never worked.
@Darkl0ud_Productions7 жыл бұрын
Lol do you not know how cleaning works? Especially the cartridge cleaners... If someone had purchased the cleaning kit and used it, the contacts on the cartridge would still look damn near new today... Sounds like someones butthurt.
@basejason5 жыл бұрын
I like how they just glossed over the fact that he was sleeping on the job on his first day
@kennyryan41734 жыл бұрын
I love these videos. It's like stepping into a time machine. Too bad a real one doesn't exist that could send me back 20 years. 2020 really sucks!
@icreatedanaccountforthis18525 жыл бұрын
I don't need that cleaner, I'll just blow on my cartridge like a normal person.
@Darkschool611 жыл бұрын
The most ridiculous thing about this video is that the guy just started the job and isn't even out of training but he's already screwing off and sleeping on the job and still gets to keep his job.
@brutaldomcom Жыл бұрын
This statement was more true when you posted it 9 years ago, but in 2023, managers in most major retail chains certainly tolerate minimum-wage employees screwing off and playing on their phones. The attitude is “meh, we’re not willing to pay for better, so…”
@Darkschool6 Жыл бұрын
@@brutaldomcomGod, I forgot that had even posted on this vid LOL! But yeah you’re probably right. At this point it’s been 30 years since I worked at Funcoland. I remember pushing those cleaners and subscriptions which are both obsolete assets today.
@alvarochaves19998 жыл бұрын
0:04 to 0:09 My favorite part.
@Darkschool611 жыл бұрын
Wow! This brings back soooo many memeories. Chuck Simmons was my regional manager. I worked there in college and hated the place. Mostly because my manager was the biggest jag that ever walked the earth. That was 20 years ago and yet when I walk into a gamestop today I still hear employees bitching about the same stuff that we went through. The job was nothing like I thought is was going to be. In the end it's your typical retail gig. If you don't sell, you're gonna get fired.
@AtticusRh0des11 жыл бұрын
"Lets do it adam... lets do it, come one adam lets do it"
@MrBubBa1313 жыл бұрын
i wish i could go back to these days and get a job here i know to much about the old systems
@linkinparkrulz22755 жыл бұрын
It's been 23 years, I've never cleaned my system or games once and they all work. What a scam. How long exactly did we need these games to last?
@Trancemaster205213 жыл бұрын
Cruisin' USA was so much fun haha I remember first playing it in the arcade around 1996/97. However, Adam stated that it was "one of the hottest new games". If this video was made in 1998, the game wasn't new haha it was originally released in the arcades in 1994 and ported to the N64 in 1996.
@c0l0nelp0pc0rn14 жыл бұрын
G.A.M.E.S., more like: M. Make everyone feel uncomfortable by your employee's lack of social skills E. Engender hatred from all your customers by offering ridiculously low trade values. A. Affect the buying habits of your customers by offering cheaper pre-played games that don't support the original developers. N. Never forget that selling more is the key to everything.
@Trid3nt86112 жыл бұрын
I remember Funcoland back in the early 90's. you could test out used games from Genesis, SNES, Nintendo and others. they even had a brochure/list of games they currently had and how much they were priced. Gamestop killed Funcoland and it isn't the same thing anymore. Bring Back FUNCOLAND!!!!!!
@SuperJumpReviews10 жыл бұрын
funcoland needs to come back.
@JORDAN7777777777713 жыл бұрын
most epic training video ever
@whoohaaXL13 жыл бұрын
@RogersRoyal Totally agree, once someones buying stuff already I'd never push more on 'em then.
@maxabeles2 жыл бұрын
1:24 "so haaofen should we be doingthecleaning" haha best part
@etho988 ай бұрын
Category in Best male performance goes to…
@scottmcintyre49503 ай бұрын
Matt Damon's debut film
@vvatchnlearnk35552 жыл бұрын
"Adam that's great now go give it a try out on the sales floor it's time for my lunch ."
@xDARTHTIMMYx10 жыл бұрын
@RogersRoyal- You had an N64 in 1994? Sweet time machine bro! Can I borrow it?
@juangonzalez364510 жыл бұрын
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@juangonzalez364510 жыл бұрын
Melo is better. Than. LeBron Melo shoot better 3 pointer event calvin love is better than LeBron James
@Brickhouse9174 жыл бұрын
Sir, you could keep buying our cleaning kits here for an insane price, or just get a cotton swab and isopropryl alcohol and clean them once every 10 years... SAME THING
@XIGRIMxREAPERIX12 жыл бұрын
Why am I watching this?
@Whoo71110 жыл бұрын
if you're gonna make em go through ALL THAT nonsense, at least pay them well
@ss4kronos3312 жыл бұрын
@RedneckYachtClubber DO NOT USE WINDEX.IT CONTAINS AMMONIA that will eat the copper off the contacts of the game.if you want to destroy your game go ahead.use 90% or higher rubbing alcohol.its better for cartridge based game.this is helpful advice
@rocker27814 жыл бұрын
If you read the description you can see this was made in 198 and was uploaded IN 2010.
@corsaircarl958212 жыл бұрын
I never used a cleaning kit for my cartridge based games. All I did was spray a little Windex (ONLY A LITTLE) on a couple of q-tips...then just rub gently on the contacts...dirt and grime come RIGHT off!
@-DeScruff12 жыл бұрын
I dunno there are game stores that specialize in old games... I go to them, because a fun game is still a fun game.
@sandraday69558 жыл бұрын
I miss Funcoland in Rosedale MN so long ago.
@HoshizakiYoshimasa7 жыл бұрын
Sandra Day I went to the one in Spring Lake Park MN
@creekboie32776 жыл бұрын
Didn't they turn into gamestop?
@etho988 ай бұрын
I miss sleeping in front of the store in rosedale commons. Got me plenty of nickels. - homeless guy
@corsaircarl958214 жыл бұрын
All I ever did to my N64, Ps1, and Saturn was the same thing, can of air and a moist (not wet) washcloth. I do it with my games and systems now and my 360 is running smooth.
@lookitskazzy14 жыл бұрын
PROTIP: Don't blow into your carts. Breath = moisture; Moisture on contacts = Corrosion which is the problem
@RedTV888811 жыл бұрын
is anybody else drooling over all those boxed N64 and SNES games?
@LordRayken12 жыл бұрын
Look at the year, dude. This video was shown in 1998. Can you imagine a store selling a NES game from 1985 in 2012? How would they even store the mass amount of crap in those little stores.
@Krymestone5 жыл бұрын
A living FMV Nightmare.
@ithydoodles5 жыл бұрын
i can say one thing: I never went to an actual funcoland. Even though I did want to. Went to babbages, GS, ebgames. Lived too far away from funco and was around 12 or 13 (1998 or 1999 when we got a babbages in my town.)
@darthkahn455 ай бұрын
You did it Adam...You did it buddy! 😭😭😭
@bahbahblacksheep3115 жыл бұрын
I worked there during this era. Loved the job but this video is giving me a weird combination of nostalgia and ptsd.
@thebipolarbear16 жыл бұрын
That dude narrates the Goldberg's
@kevinw830511 жыл бұрын
Bro I asked myself that same question. I'm smokin a blunt on a friday night watching fuckin training videos.
@Krymestone4 жыл бұрын
“Well I thought the review was good. ...I WASNT FINISHED!”
@trickshotzdaily569010 жыл бұрын
talk about pushing products on the consumer holly shit
@Doc14110 жыл бұрын
You should be aware this is how employees are trained EVERYWHERE. anywhere you buy games or computers or appliances, etc. Be alert and educated when you go into any retail store. Sometimes they offer things that are possibly valuable. Sometimes there are better alternative options elsewhere. I worked at Best Buy for a bit.
@davelanger14 жыл бұрын
@PROTENON Yeah you can do the same thing by using alchol and a Q tip
@MrAppleby5614 жыл бұрын
i've had my N64 for like 10 years, never cleaned it apart from blowing inside and on the cartridge..works like a dream
@HerecomestheCalavera4 жыл бұрын
It has been 10 years since you originally posted this comment. Which means if you still have your N64 you would have had it for 20 years. Have you ever needed to clean it yet?
@Bylga13 жыл бұрын
Why is the second controller plugged into controller port 3?
@Enchurito13 жыл бұрын
@amadeusyaoi Plus you can do the cleaning with an air compressor for the system, and rubbing alcohol on a q-tip for the cartridges.
@vedicardi13 жыл бұрын
you CLEAN that n64 baby.
@AtticusRh0des11 жыл бұрын
Chuck Simmons is a big for gamestop for teh record, Game Stop Bought out funcoland nation wide and gave most managers higher up jobs.
@LuckyPotatoKat14 жыл бұрын
i wish i was born in the 80s the older gamestop seems cooler and appears to not rip you off. they have better deals than the newer corrupt gamestop
@vedicardi14 жыл бұрын
why is one controller in port #1 and the other in #3?
@mr.goodboi27802 жыл бұрын
They be fucking with the main lad at this point. He sold a game and a controller what else can ya want?
@prophismusic10 жыл бұрын
"That's the great thing about game informer- it can save you money, by making you buy a subscription, and then be over exposed to tons of constantly new gaming merchandise!"
@chaseman9413 жыл бұрын
@whoohaaXL Probably because the only good Saturn games were the import ones. It would've been cool if Funcoland sold import games for Saturn and Playstation and showed you how to play them.
@Nodnarb5185 ай бұрын
OG GameStop
@zeng586 жыл бұрын
Why did funcoland went out of business their costumers service are great
@TheOnlyTwitchR64 жыл бұрын
How often do you clean it? Not once in 24 years. And it's still working great
@arnyjk12 жыл бұрын
A very wise (if Angry) man once said about game cleaners; "It's just as good for cleaning out your ass!"
@HerecomestheCalavera4 жыл бұрын
This comment was from 7 years ago, when that angry man still made content worth watching. Oh how the mighty have fallen. That channel is absolute trash now.
@MnmzzzCS213 жыл бұрын
This is how I train all my employees- Funcoland manager God all my workers are insane becuase of that training video- Gamestop Manager
@thehouseofhoops11 жыл бұрын
Chuck Simmons...if you're out there...please start a new game company to rival Gamestop.
@etho988 ай бұрын
Ok. Bee bop shoo doop Dee doo. Buy the contact solution for 49.99 , now! Where are your pantaloons? Love, Chuck Simmons
@EternalREWIND13 жыл бұрын
this is how i lean stuff too...I fall asleep and go into a game world where I learn,,,,Easy
@thom54995 жыл бұрын
Even for 1998 , this is aweful. Also Fuckin Chuck Simmons man
@chrisholloway546010 жыл бұрын
Bull...shit on the cleaning kit. I still play my n64 to this day and I've never once cleaned it or the games. They still work like they did in 1996 and 1997.
@TheLastLineLive8 жыл бұрын
basically. Only a handful of cart systems would actually benefit from cleaning, namely ones that had no dust covers like the Atari systems, or the NES since it was a very finicky system, most every other will perform fine without cleaning for 20+ years.
@JerryTerrifying11 жыл бұрын
BUT HOW DOES THAT MAKE FUNCO LAND MONEY?
@mustbejames14 жыл бұрын
My man said once a month. He meant to say lifetime.
@GodsBurden12 жыл бұрын
Here's the funny thing, those "cleaning kits" bent the pins back in many consoles and pretty much destroyed them.
@Avrazael3 жыл бұрын
"Say Adam, are you sure-"
@coldplay0556 жыл бұрын
That's right Kevin, Trust The Process.
@smithgdwg5 жыл бұрын
You know you could buy a bunch of Q-tips and some alcohol to clean the games and system and it would cost $18 less.
@illuminatioracle13 жыл бұрын
lol at the game informer subscription trying to act like how it was back in the day for us with no internet and had to get nintendo power. there def was internet when this video was made
@KIFulgore14 жыл бұрын
Clean the game... every time you play?? -_- Anyone else notice when he cleans the game cartridge he does it backwards? He scrubs the inside of the plastic case instead of the copper contacts.
@mrthrax14 жыл бұрын
Mine too, I have a launch N64 with like 50 games, no cleaner or BS like that and they work perfectly.
@LilBlacJac51010 жыл бұрын
I never knew about this cleaner set for 64 and I bout the 64 in 97
@coooooool123422 жыл бұрын
20 bucks a year was a lot back then.
@mfkanger10 жыл бұрын
lol@people who think q-tips + alcohol is an unknown secret for cleaning carts.
@Auzy412 жыл бұрын
Screw cleaning your games with all that fancy stuff. Get the end of your shirt, use some spit-shine and there you go.
@edwinj2 жыл бұрын
Wrong! Everyone knows you clean an N64 cartridge by blowing into it and there's no need to clean the cartridge slot. At least that's what I did and my N64 still works over 2 decades later.
@Brighteluden12 жыл бұрын
lol cleaning a game every time you play it..that's just a way for funcoland to have you waste their cleaning solution faster so they can sell you more.
@maddmike52654 жыл бұрын
I didn't even know they had cleaning stuff for n64. Wtf
@farthead167811 жыл бұрын
GENTLY
@baconwithasideofsagittariu5915 жыл бұрын
The old GameStop?
@Trid3nt86113 жыл бұрын
when he said that you should clean the game very time you take it out, I dont agree with that. I have a N64 and Ive never used a game cleaning periferal. Sad that Funcoland went out of business and got transformed to Gamestop :(.