GameStop training video light on training, heavy on hilarity

by David Hinkle { Feb 25th 2009 at 7:32PM }

Oh, GameStop. We have plenty of reasons to laugh at you. You call us up during dinner to coax us into trading stuff in, and you ask us about strategy guides and pre-orders every time we try to shop in your store. Now, it would seem you also like to employ what we've dubbed the "poor man's Lara Croft," as this very real training video shows. The video is kind of like watching a clown get the crap kicked out of him. You want to intervene, but every time he gets punched in the nose and you hear that honk sound, you can't help but laugh. Watch Ima and her amazing Zack Morris impressions after the break.

Tags: casual, expanded-audience, gamestop, gamestop-training-video, gamestop-tv, retail, training, woman

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Kinsey @ Feb 25th 2009 7:38PM

ummmm .... O.o .... im speechless

Jose @ Feb 25th 2009 7:43PM

Then why'd ya comment?

Bigfoot @ Feb 25th 2009 10:04PM

Because when you're speechless, the only thing left to do is type.

Cash @ Feb 26th 2009 12:12AM

I'd hit it.

THE WICKER MAN (BWF) (GT: Dalek Prime) @ Feb 26th 2009 1:04AM

The real question is how much to preorder this new "woman" and will the strategy guide be worth it?

heyo007 @ Feb 26th 2009 11:46AM

@wickerman
Man, that comment made me laugh hard. I also wonder what kind of DLC will be offered after this "woman" is released. More outfits or extra cooking abilities, please!

MC Ownage @ Feb 25th 2009 7:39PM

I have never seen this video at work lol. But the training video for holidays was funny as hell.

robotoid @ Feb 25th 2009 11:17PM

GET IT AND UPLOAD IT!

Rhamsey @ Feb 25th 2009 7:39PM

i tried to watch this already, and could only get 4 minutes in before i stopped. to give it some credit, i was just about to beat braid at the time.

ejordan @ Feb 25th 2009 8:39PM

Same here. 4:07 and I had to shut it off.

BananaBoat @ Feb 26th 2009 2:40AM

I was out before 2 minutes. My brain hasn't been this assaulted since someone uploaded Circuit City and BB training videos to youtube.

My head....it hurts....

Juthan (PSN: HairyToeKnuckles; GT: HairyToeKnuckle) @ Feb 26th 2009 1:26PM

1:32 and already skull f*cked. I give up, Gamestop! I give up! You win! Please make it stop!

BxGT @ Feb 25th 2009 7:41PM

That has to be fake.

ToRo @ Feb 25th 2009 11:51PM

Dude. It's real. lol

It was a cringe fest throughout the entire video. I'd still do the chick though.

Ihavepants @ Feb 25th 2009 7:41PM

Buffering at 0:31.

Why am I looking at Africa?

Nick8708 @ Feb 25th 2009 11:41PM

They're trying to insinuate that the average Gamestop employee has as little an understanding of women as the average person has of the African continent.

Chris @ Feb 25th 2009 7:42PM

I live in the UK and I couldn't even understand her crummy English accent.....

Giroro @ Feb 25th 2009 8:30PM

... I thought she was trying for an Australian accent :|

Premature ejaculation man @ Feb 25th 2009 8:41PM

=/ Don't sound like that, Giroro

Aero @ Feb 25th 2009 9:17PM

I love how lots of people assume English accent = Australian accent now due to Yahtzee.

Quattro @ Feb 25th 2009 10:46PM

I love how lots of people assume there is only one English accent.

Nick8708 @ Feb 25th 2009 11:50PM

The accents are what makes it so difficult for me to enjoy most English comedy. I have such a bad ear. It's even worse when you have a bunch of different actors with different English accents. Even if I manage to tune my ear for one, I'll still be struggling over all the others :(

ssuk @ Feb 26th 2009 5:46AM

We can all agree that is a forced accent. That or she's had a stroke or something...

kip @ Feb 26th 2009 1:14PM

@Nick- I have a problem with some British accents too... I had to watch the original The Office with subtitles on! But I can understand East-Asian and Indian accents quite well (probably because I work with lots of Asian and Indian people).

b trumpet @ Feb 25th 2009 7:51PM

RIIIGHT....
So they are basically saying they basically saying they suck and can't do anything, but bring up promotions.

Cerpin Taxt @ Feb 25th 2009 7:53PM

This was tackier than my Chuck E. Cheese's training video...

ZAM1138 @ Feb 25th 2009 7:54PM

What a laughably stiff and awkward video. And a big WTF moment when Marge Simpson and Mom from Futurama are in the opening montage. I know they're women, but seriously, them?!

Nick the Hero of Canton @ Feb 25th 2009 7:56PM

Her?

Nick the Hero of Canton @ Feb 25th 2009 7:56PM

Well then.

VoLiTioN @ Feb 25th 2009 8:00PM

That "hunter" is a serious MILF.

cheese @ Feb 25th 2009 8:01PM

lol, my wife *literally* gets a headache when she sets foot in a Gamestop

Samuel D. Lockhart @ Feb 25th 2009 8:03PM

I couldn't make it past 0:44, where their generic Google search for "mom" has resulted in Futurama's Mom! She is absolutely NOT a comftorable bedfellow to the rest of them.

EricC @ Feb 25th 2009 8:05PM

I like how the narrator sniffed the marker on her way out of frame. It certainly explains a lot about this video...

Pan1c42 @ Feb 25th 2009 8:07PM

I am now informed about these things called "women" from ages from "25 to 54". Thank you, Gamestop!

Trance Addix @ Feb 25th 2009 11:10PM

LOL

The Dark Wayne @ Feb 26th 2009 8:34AM

the best part was the vault boy avatar and the thumbs up

Andyman @ Feb 25th 2009 8:11PM

I'm not sure how i was able to watch all of that.

I think i'm bleeding from the ears now...

343 Guilty Fart @ Feb 25th 2009 8:14PM

I break the fourth wall all the time when I'm with my girlfriend. Sometimes during a sad trombone moment I'll look off the side of me and shrug my shoulders in a "well, what can i do?" kind of motion.

ronald.raygun @ Feb 25th 2009 8:19PM

rusty trombone? huh what?

Dave @ Feb 25th 2009 8:14PM

gotta love drivetime training videos, they make it a bit easier to get up at 6am on a saturday

BBY473 here

Stewart Bananas @ Feb 25th 2009 8:14PM

He said speechless, not fingerless...

Stewart Bananas @ Feb 25th 2009 8:15PM

:| That was definitely supposed to be a reply to Kinsey up at the top. I fail so hard :(

Kevin949 @ Feb 25th 2009 8:17PM

I think they had 20 bucks and asked someone on the street to do an impression of the crocodile hunter but in a video game store and with women.

ronald.raygun @ Feb 25th 2009 8:18PM

what are those things they show pictures of at the bottom of the video at 00:36 ?

Neuromancer @ Feb 26th 2009 12:36AM

Women

Pay attention, man!

LocketRaunchers @ Feb 25th 2009 8:23PM

I like the name "Ima Smartone".

randall iwashita @ Feb 25th 2009 8:25PM

Damn that first customer definitely needs to shapen the body. That black guy should of recommended Wii Fit.

ab @ Feb 25th 2009 8:25PM

That second mom is totally a cougar.

Giroro @ Feb 25th 2009 8:27PM

Why does she have a Utah state map for the first part of the video?

jynxycat @ Feb 25th 2009 8:31PM

Funcoland featured a training video with a kid getting sucked into video game land, with an evil dungeon master played by the then CEO.

The only way to escape was to the learn the 5 points of selling, which formed a convenient acronym, G.A.M.E.S.

Easily worse than this video.

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