What would you do for a copy of Doom3?

[Jonbo298]

Funny story I found upon about a guy and him wanting Doom3.

So I call my local game dealer to find out if they have any D3 copie left.

"Hello do you have d3 in yet?"
"Yes we have two copies left"

I race down there faster then when I picked up BF1942. When I get there I find that both of the copies are not behind the counter yet but there is tons more. I ask for one of those copies.

"Sorry those are for people that reserved the game....
ANGER LEVEL RISING
...we just sold the last one about a min ago"

I head out of the store with my tail between my legs totally dissapointed. As I am heading out I see a kid who looks like he is about 10 yrs old holding a D3 box and man he was holding onto it like a 5 year old holds onto pokemon cards.

I catch the jibber jabber that the kids around him are making.

"HALO2 is going to be the most awesomest game in the world and will totally destroy all the rest of the games that will come out around it. Nothing can compete against HALO2"

"No way man, that new Grand theft auto game is going to be so much fun, the last couple of games I never got tired of running from the cops and runing over people."

I look around and notice that there are no people that are over 17 in the store around him or in the store.

devilish grin apears on my face

I stay in the store for a little while longer and follow them to go up and pay. They hand the game to the store clerk and they are getting out some money to pay for the game when I say to the clerk.

"Don't you have to be over 17 to buy that game"

Clerk "ID son"
Kid "What"
Clerk "Well since it doesn't look you are anywhere near 17 I can't sell you that game"
Kid tears start to appear in his eyes

Me "I can pay for that game"
I whip out the plastic and away I go with a copy of D3.

http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=8295783

I salute the guy. He did the right thing even though some people think he's an asshole.

[Acebot44]

Haha, what a great guy. I would have done the same...if I was over 17

[Typhoid]

I would........buy.......it...



I was going to buy it today at Future Shop, they have a whole rack stacked with them. I bought EA sports MLB 2004 instead.

I might go back and buy it tomorrow, who knows. Im a mad man.

[Null]

whomever made that story up should never write for movies. thats a really corny story. and even more corny dialog.

[Dark Samurai]

He's just doing what the government wants him to do, kids under 17 cant play 'M' rated games. Its not his fault that he is in that age where its official for him to buy that game.

Funny as hell, though.

[KillerGremlin]

What an asshole.

I thank god for my side burns. I've been picking up M rated games from Gamestop for a while now, and I'm only 16.

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

What an asshole.

I thank god for my side burns. I've been picking up M rated games from Gamestop for a while now, and I'm only 16.

Haha. Living on the edge there... I think we got a future convict for sure....

[KillerGremlin]

Lol, yeah. Okay. But I've been able to buy them since I was like 12, at least at Gamestop. The guys at Best Buy are retarded, they card everyone.

Anyways, if I was that kid I'd build a BFG and blow that guy up.

And don't get me started on the ESRB....I'm sure the kid could have played the game and been fine. So "that was the right thing to do" is kind of bs.

Edit: The government would like stories like this being made up. Check out this news link that someone posted on AGB:

http://www.stopkill.com/

There you go. Have fun reading that. Don't you love our retarded society?

[KillerGremlin]

Recent medical brain scan studies at Harvard, Indiana University, and elsewhere prove that adolescents' brain functions are damaged by a steady diet of violent images. The heads of six major health care organizations, including the American Medical, Pediatric, and Psychiatric Associations have all testified before Congress in June 2000 that violent entertainment contributes to teen violence. Video games are literally "murder simulators" teaching our kids how to kill.

The incredibly violent Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, made by Take-Two Interactive of New York City, has caused multiple copycat killings across the country. A recent Gallup Poll found that any American teen who has played this one game is twice as likely to be engaged in an act of violence than those who have not played this one game. In this game you have sex with a prostitute and then kill her grotesquely to get your money back and win the game faster. Police officers are set on fire, shotgunned in the face, and innocent pedestrians are run over with cars.

Isn't that awesome?

Uneducated people making stuff up. Best part of the internet. I loooove it.

[Jason1]

I thought it wasnt aginst the law for a kid under 17 to buy an M rated game? I always thought it was just some stores do it, some stores dont. But I never thought it was actually aginst the law to sell them to minors.

[KillerGremlin]

I've heard that stores can be charged up to 10,000 dollars worth of fines.

In Illinois, I think you need to be 18 to buy M rated games. Apparently, 17 is still a minor (Which is true), making the M rating useless.

It's cool though, because I shop at Gamestop, and I strongly oppose the people that blame gaming for violence.

[Hero2]

Im sure those kids were pissed. Ive only been carded for a game once and that was metal gear solid 2. I had a freind with me so (right in front of the clerk who was being an ass) I gave my freind the money and the game he bought it and handed it to me.

Gratz to the guy who cheated the kids out of doom 3, next week stealing candy from babies

[Null]

they're fictional characters, how can they be pissed?

[Jason1]

Okay wait...to buy M rated games (that is, if its even a law, which I dont think it is yet), you only have to be 17. That im fairly sure of. Same as going to an R rated movie by yourself. Its 17, not 18.

[Yugi Starwind]

smart move. very nice thinking in a time of need