FuncoLand Training Video (Part 1)

[@ShortFingeredShreder]

I miss FuncoLand, it was a unique store. When I was a kid, someone murdered 2 people in my local FuncoLand. Oh, the memories.

[@yaywhewclips242]

+ShortFingeredShreder never heard of Funcoland

[@ShortFingeredShreder]

***** Yep. My local Funcoland was in Roxbury, NJ. One night, a teenager entered the store and murdered 2 people in it. Just search "FuncoLand murders" in Google, and you should find some articles about it. I believe it was in 2002.

[@InJonWeTrust]

and I live somewhat close to Roxbury, never heard of that. gonna look it up

[@eldendrove]

Same FuncoLand in Roseville, MN was my second home Snes, Nes and Playstation the good days when owning a console made sense.

[@vaddix9980]

Omar Thomas waas innocent!

[@vejymonsta3006]

idk what's creepier. The big guy in the high chair laughing like a robotic santa or the fact that this is a training video.

[@unexploredtexas5497]

I think John Wayne GAY-cy here takes the cake

[@Gameboy-Unboxings]

@@unexploredtexas5497 😆😆 wtf

[@EnigmaticJay]

Funcoland will always have a special place in my heart, it's the establishment where I played the original PlayStation & Soul Blade for the very first time. I remember when I would go there during weekends just to play.

[@oldbrokenhands]

Best acid trip ever.

[@EDGar-wi6np]

I worked at a funcoland in east side San Jose California in 99. So much crazy shit would go on in that place. Games would fly off shelves when nobody was in the store, the gaming tv’s would turn on and off and the volumes would go up and down by their selves, the bathroom door in the back office would open and shut loudly. One of the girls I worked with quit cause she told our manger she seen a shadowy figure standing in the doorway of the bathroom After closing hours.

[@shadowops258]

The one by Eastridge mall? I used to go there all the time when I was younger, and they had the pizza place, haircut place, and supermarket store. Loved that Funcoland

[@corsaircarl9582]

Love how these companies had a hard-on for those cleaning kits, those were USELESS. Just some light cleaning spray and a q-tip cleans the cartridges and contacts on the system easily.

[@foch41]

if a salesman came at me like that I would leave and never come back

[@whiteshadowsaga]

I used to make some good commission on selling those cleaners and GI subscriptions back in the day at FuncoLand. Miss working there.

[@GeeksByTheCreek]

Same! You could really impact your check if you were good. And the spiffs on some games and accessories too! And as a manager, bonuses for numbers were also nice.

[@stephtennis]

I worked at Funco and they were still using this video many many years after it was already out of date.

[@andreww1212]

All of these corporate training videos are the same. Steps, procedures and acronyms that don't meant anything in real life. Seems to be degrading to both the customers and employees. No wonder why retail is dying. No one wants to deal with this bullshit.

[@cadelfowl7724]

After recently working in a dying retail store, this video wants to make me kill myself. All of this stupid bullshit about acronyms & etc that, as you said, don't apply to real life. These videos are often produced by out of touch corporate executive committee boards that haven't spent a day of their life behind a register or working in a retail store, so to them, a customer in the store is a guaranteed sale unless an employee "does something wrong". The best salesman to a customer is the customer itself.

[@migueldeltoral7301]

Thaaaaaats capitalism for ya! Creating meaningless, soulless, degrading, monotonous, pointless jobs that make people miserable just to rake in profit that those workers will never see in the entire time they work there....then when the workers naturally (and eventually) lose morale and happiness are called lazy and are told by management to be "thankful" to even have their job, what a system eh?

[@aaro1268]

That's most minimum-wage low skill jobs. You're just there to go through motions to ensure that money is not lost. Corporate expects you to follow programming unless you eventually get into a white-collar position where you have some autonomy. I like to call it wage-slavery because you're there to patronize and offer services. People often get trapped in it if they can't get a degree or promotion to better roles they can leverage when applying at new companies.

[@jonnda]

Miguel Del Toral Well, to be fair, if it was communism... The state would have to artificially create a meaningless soulless degrading jobs, just to make sure every citizen has a job. Heck, you might even get reassigned to a different job against your will. A bank teller before the revolution, might be forced to work as a farmer after communism, because someone thought it was a good idea to shoot all the successful wealthy farmers or exile them to Siberia.

[@8ight8ight12]

@@jonnda Agreed. Blaming capitalism is a lazy deflection. If you're stuck in a shit retail job it's your own damned fault.

[@piscesdreams1023]

Upsell like your soul means nothing. That's what I learned from this video.

[@KiloByte69]

Please, Adam, no whining.

[@Alyks_the_Emerald_Sage]

You sure you're not talking about Gamestop?

[@Darkschool6]

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.

[@GJones712]

This is fucking amazing. Citizen Kane level cinematography.

[@rojman123]

They sure ask a lot for a minimum wage job

[@HerecomestheCalavera]

Yep and no matter how much you do it is never enough. He could have sold 100 cleaning kits in a day and the boss would have just said "Well if you'd try harder you could have sold 200"

[@williamgatesenson]

most of them do

[@JerryTerrifying]

The more you're paid the less you do. I have tremendous respect for anyone doing minimum wage work because they're working their asses most of the time.

[@el_wilder8860]

Damn I just saw the game Rush in the background... I used to play that game religiously on N64 back in the day, and Golden Eye.

[@lookitskazzy]

If this guy tried to spend days talking to me as soon as I walked in, I would just walk out

[@andreww1212]

Funcoland was incredible. They had tons of accessories (new and used) for just about every console made and an incredible selection of games. That place was such a joy to walk into back in the day. Now whenever I see a Gamestop I keep a distance of at least 200ft.

[@ZzzZzz-db6gm]

I would be too scared to work there.

[@CBsays_]

Used to love going into funcoland in 1999 to buy nes cartridges. They had an entire price list printed out.

[@whynotanyting]

I can't believe Adam forgot the FuncoLand 90 warranty, a FuncoLand fundamental.

[@Graymenn]

those cleaning kits were garbage... they damaged the frikn disc

[@DarkReapersGrim]

3:37 I remember that San Francisco Rush game. That was so fun. And I loved in San Francisco!

[@yermongo]

This is like every show Adult Swim has come out with in the last two years.

[@jacobrichardson1952]

As an old soul person for 1998, I always wanted to visit FuncoLand.

[@ChristheShrinerdawg]

I used to go to the Funcoland in my hometown of Federal Way, WA! Miss that place!

[@thornage2333]

The cost to make this video and pay the actors is 10$

[@piscesdreams1023]

And that is 2015 dollars. Adjusting for inflation, this costed about $6.76 in 1997.

[@GeeksByTheCreek]

Former Gamestop manager here. The bizarre dude is actually Chuck Simmons. He was eventually the sales director and wore many hats. I don't know if he would have gotten paid extra for this. Maybe not even $10 dollars. He was with the company from jump, I believe. He'd call stores that had bad numbers for cleaner and Game Informer sub sales and most of the time offer incentives like cash or pizza for the store or top sales. This was very much a real thing.

[@Innocuils]

Wow...the memories that flood back from this video. Who knew I kept memories like this under lock and key. Thanks for share this...mindblowing.

[@bonesjohnsonn]

the audio mixing alone is a trip

[@therealjharris]

Funcoland, Software Etc, and Electronics Boutique were my go-to places every time I was in the mall. Love the 90s!

[@ChristopherCChandler]

This video has been lost, but now it has been found. Congrats to everyone for keeping their IPT up above 2.0, and for those high Cleaning Kit, and Subscription percentages!

[@Thegamingking89]

0:01 he’s playing, “Castlevania The Adventure” for the “Nintendo Game Boy”

[@Knowurconception]

They got me to buy the cleaning kit and magazine subscription. I miss those days.

[@NormenBatez]

FuncoLand is Game Stop's father.

[@ColdWerdz]

I would have quit as soon as i saw the first 15 secs

[@kylo4ever693]

lmao

[@corsaircarl9582]

God, this is so 90's it has Pogs, Michael Jordan, Grunge rock, and torn-knee jeans written all over it!

[@HerecomestheCalavera]

The people who worked at Funcoland were generally teenagers who were into videogames they could have easily helped customers with their own knowledge. It could have been a fun job but nope all they care about is forcing you to sell junk cleaning kits that people don't need. I'd say any gamer even back then would know those cleaning kits are totally unnecessary. Corporate knew that many parents would be coming in to buy a system for their kid and that they would know little to nothing about video games. So if the salesman says that you need to buy a cleaning kit to keep the system from breaking down they are going to believe it. Because the customer trusts that you are helping them make the best decision, not trying to sell them some snake oil garbage because your boss with bitch you out if you don't upsell enough cleaning kits. Hmm.... I wonder why so many retail stores are dieing out nowadays? You could talk somebody into buying 100s of dollars worth of games but your boss would still bitch at you if you didn't sell them some garbage they didn't need to go with those games. Typical minimum wage job. No matter how good of an employee you are and no matter how hard you work it is never enough. You could do 99.9 percent of your job perfectly but all the boss is going to focus on is that 0.01 percent that you didn't do perfectly.

[@nohbuddy1]

Typical retail. Tactics like this have killed a lot of companies. They'd never get promoted either

[@trevorschatzlein2214]

I see you're looking at Cruisin' U.S.A... Do you have an N 64?

[@fantastopotomus]

suny123boy1 "Cruisiiïiiiiiiin yeah!"

[@HerecomestheCalavera]

Nah I'm looking for the Colecovision version.

[@HliasPsinakis]

It got horrible reviews back in the day d-dog. Gamepro gave it like a 2.0/5.

[@Texasmilitarydepartmentvid9654]

Funcoland was the gaming store of the 80tys before Game Stop bought them out in the late 90ty's.

[@Thegamingking89]

1:13 “Creepy Funcoland Manager: so Adam you decided join us!” LOL hahaha that’s to funny

[@andreww1212]

Holy shit, I really miss the 90's. Such a wholesome era.

[@PoppieXL]

I use to work at a Funco land way back in the days, had a blast there.

[@Wolfman12395]

Ahhhh Funcoland, the days where I used to always get excited to see the new Sega Saturn games that were out. MAN I miss my childhood....

[@greyfox37]

Castlevania Adventure 1 in the beginning, Battle of the Holy. Love it

[@davidguinn8880]

DAMMIT ADAM, IF YOU HAD JUST REMEMBERED TO SELL THE CLEANING KITS I COULD STILL SHOP AT FUNCOLAND!!!

[@bennetfox]

If you guys have ever wondered what an acid trip looks like? This video.

[@edthestudent]

How did Adam know the customer had a son?

[@bungus2012]

This video has the exact same vibe as an old AVGN episode

[@mlkohs]

I used to work at a Best Buy. The number 1 customer complaint is "no one helped me." So our managers were always on our ass to engage EVERY customer

[@1uhot426]

Funcoland actually still exists. I just found out there is one 20 minutes from me (I live 40 minutes from D.C).

[@deniskenn]

i miss this store so badly

[@mustbejames1]

Franklin mills funcoland will never be forgotten.

[@RAA12586]

I used to get their monthly gaming newspaper that listed all their games in stock when they were around.

[@glitchgames5221]

The golden juggalo

[@ElRealPetChicken]

Give this man the 10,000 dollars. 😂

[@NathanLJustice]

HAHHA

[@themegaman91965]

I was reading through your comments, and you do have a good point regarding the demos. I, too along with many others have wasted quite a bit of money on games we don't truly like, and I haven't even tried a demo of the games I bought in almost ten years. Thinking about the number of games I bought and liked after playing the demo versus games I bought on a whim has quite a contrast. Most of the games I end up liking and keeping were games I actually tried out at a store for at least 10 minutes.

[@lightwavemusic617]

1:33 that music is from fright night halloween cd album :P

[@Obswalq]

Game Gear with case, magnifying glass, mastergear converter, gear-to-gear cable, powerback, battery pack, external power cable, and 10 games for $50? Fuck yes, bring back Funcoland.

[@mavoelker]

Boy, do I love chicken strips. Sometimes, when I’m home alone, I’ll take some chicken strips fresh out of the oven and rub them in my scalp. It doesn’t do much for my hair health, but I like the way they feel running through my strands of hair. The flakey coating, smooth white meat, and warmth. Yum

[@mileracer1128]

I use to LOVE those price sheets with all of the games...I still own and the use the Disc Cleaner it shows...Cleans PSX and Sega Saturn games..lol

[@buckscash1]

Wow see,FuncoLand let you take acid trips while gamestop doesn't,FuncoLand will always be the best.

[@GGRC]

The gay master? That had to be a popular nickname in the 90's.

[@MrNateenochs]

Had to check the comments as soon as I heard it.

[@PLBIV]

i love that this is from "circa 1998"... yet it SCREEEEAAAMMMS 1985

[@morningrise]

I remember having to watch this awhile back when I first started working there. My manager at the time just sat in the back room with me and we just made fun of how cheesy it was.... I really miss that store...

[@Trid3nt861]

I remember Funcoland back in the 90's. I used to get SNES games used there, in 3rd Ave the Hub if I remember. Now Gamestop sits in place where it used to be. Unfortunately Gamestop killed it off. I remember getting First Samurai for around 15.00 bucks. They even had games you can try out connected to crt monitors.

[@MyPhobo]

"Hey are you studying your big ass bible of corporate bullshit?" "no fuck this shit."

[@JoeCnNd]

god, Alex jones looks so young here as the supervisor.

[@Doc141]

Post-Ocarina of Time video game training video is amazing

[@richardson.1424]

@ 2:27 did The Gamemaster say "incurrent" instead of "incorrect"????

[@scubasteve7439]

you might wanna check out game informer, its our monthly magazine!...wow when game stop bought this franchise, they REALLY became the same store with a different name

[@theetick]

Just to clarify the mis information in this thread Funcoland was never gamestop or babbages. I worked there as a manager for almost 4 years. We were growing every year and had record profits. Many stores were massive busy and didn't really have the time to get on the floor and implement the training in this video. In my case, I usually did. The real reason they sold is the owner sold the company to have a secure financial future and to take care of his ailing father who had alzheimers.

[@Nap712]

Is this a training video or an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark?

[@nikosvelazquez4717]

i would walk in singing with my sister FUNCOLAAAAND FUNCOLAAAND FUNCOLAAAAND no idea why it was just the best thing ever in history

[@greattoyreviewer]

way better acting in this than in "the room"

[@cadelfowl7724]

YOU'RE TEARING ME APART, FUNCOLAND GOD!

[@UndulationStation]

In 1998 They were asking people to get gameinformer

[@prophismusic]

so crazy, this is like a nightmare! super cool to watch, thanks uploader.

[@uTubeNoITube]

Main point of my post: "FuncoLand KICKED ASS, and FUCK GameStop". When I was a kid (circa 1995ish) I remember going in there and being so excited, I remember their little price guiide they used to come out with every month that lited EVERY game and what they sell it for! I wish I could find one of those lists somewhere .... And now I am sad that the greedy fuck GameStop corp cornered the market and bought up ALL these places and converted them into an ugly monopoly on the retro-games :(

[@IxionForte]

You're looking at it through rose tinted glasses. It's the same fucking store, the name is changed but it's no different.

[@uTubeNoITube]

Forte Sasser You obviously never set foot inside a Funco-land. The reason I know? Even though I was a child (no older than age 12) last time I set foot in a Funco-land? BECAUSE MY DAD IS POOR AND CHEAP AS FUCK and he would go there ALL the time to buy used games, accessories, etc etc etc. I remember them actually HAVING previously owned accessories for game systems (back in those days only things we had to get accessories/games for however was Nintendo, Game Boy, Sega Genesis and Sega Game Gear). I think in the mid-to-late 90s I paid $50~ for a Game Gear complete with the signature officially licensed Game Gear carrying case with it's plastic insert, AC pack, ac adapter, and even a few games. Which at that time, was a STEAL. Fast-forward that to modern day, within the last 1-2 years, each of the maybe 3-4 times I've set foot in a GameStop (different locations each time, ranging from East Coast to West Coast), they were ALL alike. A big, fat ass, giant conglomerate of EXTREMELY OVERPRICED shit (even used non-boxed PSP games were 2x the price of e-bay or any other secondhand store I'd been in). The selection was shit for almost everything but Nintendo, seems someone at the head office got their cock sucked by a Nintenedo exec. And guess what? I never saw ANY previously owned accessories, only brand-new, factory sealed, WAYYYYYYYYYYY overpriced accessories of shit quality that you could get on ebay for 1/10th the cost. So again I say, FUNCOLAND KICKED ASS, GAME GEAR SUCKS COCK AND NEEDS TO BURN IN A LAKE OF INCINERATING FIRE!!!!!

[@uTubeNoITube]

John Ryan Dunno what you even wrote, too much incoherent rambling but have fun with that!

[@raedabdulrahman6556]

This video is like a CD-i. game, hahaha. I miss funcoland

[@Thegamingking89]

“So Adam you decide to join us!”

[@Throckmorton723]

I worked at the Brooklyn, NY store in 1991

[@johnryan9362]

Wow I'd imagine those employees had to get incredibly high to deal with those types of videos for training. I never remember the Funcoland staff being annoying like this guy. Nowadays GameStop is pretty brutal once you checkout with them asking you to sign up for crap. I'd imagine GameStop's training is pretty awful, I feel bad for their employees... having to ask people for stuff they don't need over and over and over... and over. I would be a terrible GameStop employee, even when I called the store the other day I had to listen to a 15 second pitch before the employee asked me how he could "help" me!

[@chadwickmacarthur4760]

Oh man this did not age well :(

[@HerecomestheCalavera]

The first 50 seconds of the video makes perfect sense. Hey Adam, you teen who knows everything about video games. Who plays the newest systems and the newest releases, can you tell me what our corporate policy regarding games is?

[@darkone180]

@doomslayer133 actually no,funcoland wasnt closed down till 2002-03 i know because i used to go to one EVERY other week or so

[@cheezymadman]

They probably should've tightened up the graphics a little more on level three.

[@HighOnAmmo]

Dealing with it as we speak. Manners, young man.

[@whi99017]

@DigitalChaosSC Funcoland and Gamestop were always the same thing. At the time, what we know now as GameStop was split in two parts: Funcoland and Babbages. Eventually the two were merged and became GameStop. Funcoland was never "bought out"; it just evolved into the monster it is today.

[@Imanoob5721xtimes]

0:19 me when the teacher calls me for the answer in the board

[@postmodernrecycler]

You have 13 hours to solve the labyrinth. Or your paycheck is mine. FOREVER.

[@JUSXTREME96]

I remember I got Toy Story for Genesis there when I was like 4. I remember getting other Genesis games as well from there.

[@ultracartoonartist7635]

Why they use the same soundtrack in the WWF when Jake The Snake turned his back on the Ultimate Warrior.1:36

[@DarkReapersGrim]

These kids don't know about Funcoland! They had these black and white newspapers with the prices of all of the games for every system that they were selling.

[@jerryadams2064]

This is not FuncoLand. This was an IRS training video.

[@miatoon]

Let's get this out of the way. Chadtronic anybody?

[@TheBlueGreens64]

yes

[@Heffy_Boi]

This is amazing!!

[@Zwei4815]

Come back Funcoland! You are missed!

[@Thegamingking89]

Lol, I just figure out that Adam is playing, “Castlevania The Adventure” for “Nintendo Game Boy” 0:01 XD

[@xxhitttmanxx]

we used to hit funcoland alot back in the days when snes and sega were still popular

[@doomslayer133]

@darkone180 but Funcoland was gone by the time ps2,gamecube and Xbox hit shelves.

[@JustinVerlander35]

@darkone180 it was like 03 in michigan as well when they closed

[@silverwings21]

Just because customers complain that "No one helped me", that doesn't mean they weren't engaged by the clerks. ; )

[@viewmaster617]

Funcoland was a better gaming shopping experience than gamestop back then at least they were upfront about what they sold and didn't have to use shady practices to get sales not like gamestop

[@crazy1111111111]

Was this really a training video for funcoland? God I miss that store :-(