GameStop will honor Duke Nukem Forever pre-orders from simpler times

@Faris Hilton

No. They would be wearing a tuxedo shirt so they could stay classy.

@Faris Hilton
Throw in a red truck with a missing bumper,
and you might be onto something...

@Arsenic13

That was my thought - they should be honoring pre-orders, receipt or not receipt. If you gave them the money, you deserve the product.

@Arsenic13 I kept my receipt from when I preordered it back in 2001, but I kept it in my wallet. By 2002 it was a blank white piece of paper.

@Arsenic13 propblem with this is most receipts that still exists probably faded to the point you cannot tell what the preorder was for

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Thanks for posting this! I was trying to remember where I saw that picture before.

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze
"FINALLY I can get Duke Nuken Forever! Now...to take my ol' reciept and--"

*reciept disintegrates when touched*

"No...no...there was time now... it was released....IT'S NOT FAIR...IT'S NOT FAIIIRRRRR!!"

Mr. Tom Meredith. Just a man who wanted to play a video game.
Mr. Tom Meredith...in the Twilight Zone.

@The Only Girl
DODODODODO

@Kirkpad
I've been told that I was given a reservation to Hell when I turned 2. Upon arrival I will be forced to play Custer's Revenge and E.T simultaneously while watching The Legend of Zelda TV series and Super Mario Bros Movie simultaneously.

It's not all bad, I'll also be given two more eyes (stereoscopic, no less!) and two more arms to meet that end.

Of course, if they lose the receipt the joke will be on them!

@Mmmmz people keep knocking E.T. but I was five when that game came out and I thought it was the bomb!

@evilkoala
Why would they? It's still coming out for PC.

@Fo0dNippl3

I was 17 back in 1997 as well, waiting for DNF (instead we got those 3rd person Duke games for PS1). Now, I've been a lawyer for 5 years.

@Fo0dNippl3

To put it in perspective: I was 17 in 1997 too, starting my senior year of high school. Now, I've been a lawyer for 5 years.

@TheRedComet

So this comment is like double jeopardy?

@TheRedComet
And now, you have early onset dementia and can't remember what you've typed.

@Fo0dNippl3

How many of those bright eyed kids are now world weary adults..every single one of them that's still alive, I suspect.

@decypherSMC
Knowing GameStop it depleeted over time.

@The Aquacharger
Now they owe GameStop money.

@Shadowbender
http://i52.tinypic.com/swqq1g.jpg

@The Only Girl

Doh! Correction: "...Joystiq *post*..."

@Cthulhupal
You should still getyour dad to pre-order it.

@The Aquacharger

Sadly my dad passed away about 3 years ago at the age of 49. I miss him very much, and even though I lived with my from 7-16 when they divorced, I got to see him enough, and he was the main supporter of my gaming habit, getting my brother a I a NES (with power pad), ps1 and ps2 (both with twisted metal FTW!), and my first PC.

I moved back in with him when I was 16, and didn't care for school at the time, but he kind of knocked responsibility into me and I'll always be grateful for that. He passed away while I was in community college, but in a way it increased my resolve to accomplish the things I know would make him proud. I'm in my final year of university about to get my BA in liberal studies and my teaching credential, and I attribute a lot of my success to the time I spent with him. He was just as badass as The Duke!

And Aquacharger, don't feel bad about the comment, if anything, it brings back the joy I got from the day the Diablo II: Lord Of Destruction expansion came out, and my friends picked me up to go get their copies from FRYS. I remember telling my dad while he was changing the oil on his truck, and like the true badass he was, pulled out sixty bucks on the promise that I helped him to work on the truck as soon as I got back! Total badass!!!

Correction: Even though I lived with my mom from 7-16.

@Cthulhupal
Way to put a damper on it.

@The Aquacharger Ouch ;)

@endgamer77

If you get the vasectomy earlier, the future is a lot less sad.

(mostly kidding)

@(Unverified)

The sad fact is that Gamestop employees risk losing their jobs if they don't make a quota of preorders. So if you actually like your local Gamestop employees, and want them to stick around, then for the love of Christ, preorder the games that you're planning on picking up anyway!

Plus, if you preorder an item far enough in advance, then you can use that like a layaway program. I preorder Bioshock Infinite the day it became available, and I've thrown down $10 per pay period since the initial down payment. As such, I'll have it paid off long before it ever comes out, and I'm not stuck with a lump sum payment on launch day.

Oh, and I happen to like the free stuff you usually get with preorders...

@(Unverified)
Lovely Joystiq commenting system at work.

@(Unverified)
A refund?