Most Awkward Game Purchase?

I can't think of any awkward purchases; at least when store employees are concerned. I don't care so much about what they think, but sometimes it can be awkward with the parents. But again, I don't currently have one in mind that has already happened - I've preemptively stricken any notion of purchasing the Pokemon Gold/Silver remake from my mind, though! That would be oh too uncomfortable! =(

When I bought Pokemon DIamond (my first pokemon game since blue) 6 months ago I got looks from the parents in the story, one of them acutally whispered to her husband "Peadofile, heh" :| Wtf! Just because im a 19 year old male buying a pokemon game for my DS.

Oh plus there was the time I was buying my DS, I traded in £100 worth of games :p I got so many dirty looks lol

Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure.

I've got a really sad one from a couple years back.

There was also this one time when I went to GameSpot to buy Field Commander (great game). I went up to the counter to purchase the game after I found it. The guy was taking his fuckin' time, presuming I didn't have stuff to do. So, out of pure boredom, I asked him "hey have any gay dudes ever came in here?" And he said "That question is not appropriate" so I sat at the counter for like two more minutes in complete silence. He then asked me "do you have an ID with you?" And I responded "No, why?" He said "You need parental permission or an ID to buy rated Teen games." This was new to me, so I said "I've bought a bunch of other rated T games here and never needed permission!" So, the jackass said "Yeah, but you still need parental permission." At this point I was pissed, I just wanted to get the fuck out of GameStop and as far away from that douchebag as possible. So I got my dad (in Pizza Hut at the time) and he told him I could get the game, and I was happy.
 
Last Saturday I went there again to trade in some GameCube games to make some shelf space, and it was the Same guy. It wasn't as awkward as you'd expect, but he feinted caring about new games I was interested in, I told him Just Cause 2 and Tekken 6, and he said, "I'm excited about that too! I can't wait!" And I responded "Yeah" and then, he fucked up the whole conversation by telling me "we have a fightpad up on that shelf (it was above the 360 games), if you're interested, I don't know how long it will be there."

Not a game but going alone and buying a skirt is weird

As much of a poser gamer I am, it was buying Pokemon for the DS. I was like, "So is Pokemon only for little kids?", you know to play it off cool but I of course knew all about them and have played them for years.

I brought Guitar Hero 3 in the US and had to carry it through an Airport and on to the plane, then through another Airport getting stopped by an Aussie telling me how much fun I will have with it. Also the secruity people at Heathrow gave me some strange looks, as most of it was covered with a huge plastic bag.

Probably when I picked up Pokemon Diamond, Power Rangers Super Legends alongside Manhunt 2. The combination of the three was the strangest thing. I guess it baffled the employees that a person could be interested in raising fictional animals, saving the galaxy with color coordinated suits, but also be curious about the inner workings of strangling someone with a plastic bag.

Sidenote: Pokemon and Power Rangers stayed in my collection much longer than Manhunt 2's two day tenure.

Well, I was in Akihabara, and i wanted to pick up Fate Stay Night, and I had to go into one of the "bottom floors". Normal for japanese guys, but not for foreigners. That was a fucked up experience

Walking through Wal Mart with my launch 360, past a bunch of people who thought they could get there at 12:05 and still get one. Thought I was going to get stabbed.

Pokemon Platinum recently.

Viva Pinata. And recently Pokemon.

Never been embarrassed at a purchase, no one should be; insecurity is a nasty detriment to have.

Nothing really, I remember I bought NFL 2K5 years after it was released though, and the guy working at EB Games sorta looked at me strange :/

i asked how much i would get if i traded in lego indiana jones for PS2 andthe guy at EB just looked at me and then said "Not much buddy." i felt like a douche.

Online shopping. It solves all these problems any many more!

Anything remotely childish, last I can remember, Punch Out!!

Final Fantasy X-2.

There was a cute girl behind the register. She looked at it, looked at me, and I can see the judgment in her eyes. It was pretty embarrassing. I even tried to say it was: "for a friend."

Which, for some of the younger readers on the board thinking of using said excuse, spare yourself because itDOES NOT WORK FOR ANY SITUATION EVER.

See. This thread is now educational.

I have not actually had any awkward purchases yet, but my friend had to buy a few Wii games for his brother once...and he had a T-Shirt on saying Go X-Box which he had drew on with vivid.

I never had an awkward game purchase,  I tend to not care what people think of what game I buy. 

Henry Hatsworth and the puzzleing adventure. Cover looks like a kids game, but wow was that game hard.

Lugging the whole GH:WT box home on the train & bus was pretty physically awkward. As for purchases I don't really feel awkward. I bought Bad Day LA & Just Cause for $4 each the other day and laughed it off with the sales guy.

awkward game purchase for me would be the first Rock Band.  Carrying the huge box all around the mall where I bought it.

Rock Band was awkward. Carrying that giant box on the bus got some strange looks. Other than that, nothing. I buy most games from a game store where the staff know about games, and know that games like pokemon, viva piñata and other similar games aren't just for kids. And once it's in the carrier bag, no one can see what it is.

Probably that time I bought a game naked.  Awkward for them I mean.

I bought a game from Gamestop, without a game in it...........

it was a gift and i wrap it and give to them...... ya that was embarrassing.

Oddly enough, when I was buying Persona 3 FES at a local retailer the guy actually told me how awesome of a game it was. That was awkward in a different way.

I went into GAME to buy genji 2 for the PS3, and this is how the following converstaion went.
GAME dude: " are you sure you want this game"
Me: "why is it bad"
GAME dude: " well it depends on your tastes"
Me: "like what tastes"
GAME dude " well do you like shit games"
Me: "Errrrrrrr"
GAME dude: " you know what, go pick another game, im not selling you that game"