How I Met a Drunk Guy and Legally Robbed a Walmart
By TheGremp 43 Comments
I'm sure some of you are aware that just about every Walmart in the US had a midnight-launch Marvel vs Capcom 3 tournament last night. That sounded like fun to me, so my brother and I arrived at our local Walmart at 9:30, when the tournament was supposed to begin. Nobody else was there yet, so we played some matches while we waited. Considering that I had watched 20 hours of live stream footage and he was just pressing random buttons, I was obviously better than him, but it was still really fun to learn the game a bit.
We kept on playing, and a few Walmart employees jumped in to play a bit. We played until about 11 AM, and no other players had shown up. At about that time, some drunk dude in his late 40's walked up behind us, leaned in, and said, "...Atari?" I said, "Sorry, say again?" "...Do you have an Atari?" "Nope, never had one." "...Do you want one?"
It sounded ridiculously sketchy. Eventually the conversation moved on to some of his great ideas for the video game industry. Here are a some highlights: "You know that game Alien Invaders? They should make that game, but like, you go into a haunted house, but on the inside it's an alien spaceship, like a perfect circle. I could probably sell that for like $25 a piece." At one point he pointed to the 360 and asked, "Does it have any fishing games?" I said, "Yeah, there's that one Rapala fishing game." He responded, "They should make one with a catfish. That'd be fun." It was so difficult not to burst out laughing.
Afterwards, we went to Jack in the Box for a celebratory breakfast at 12:30 AM. Probably the best deal I've gotten at Walmart for ages. Oh, by the way, MvC3 is awesome. I'm gonna go play it now.
P.S. a high-quality original version of the cover can be found here.