Ever since the game came out in late August, I've been constantly bugging the local Blockbuster Video to get it. I was surprised that I even have to; the game was the featured GameCube game of September on the Blockbuster web site, and they've always gotten other Mario games which were almost always rented out.
I mean, come on, if you have games for a Nintendo console out, it's only common sense to have, you know, MARIO games! Based on the past rental records of other Mario games, any manager who somehow doesn't know about games should still be able to make a basic enough deduction that it would be a game worth making available.
And it's like nearly mid-November, they still don't have it in, and they keep giving me inconsistent responses as to whether or not they'll ever get any copies. They don't know. They won't. They will. They don't know again. Make up your mind!
They've gotten several copies of new games, like Call Of Duty 2: Big Red One, Gun, etc. This includes new Nintendo-published games like Pokémon XD and Battalion Wars. So it's not like they've given up on the GameCube yet, or even Nintendo games.
So why not Mario Superstar Baseball?
And soon Super Mario Strikers is coming out, and I can see that there's no guarantee that they'll have that either.
It's so frustrating - I rarely buy games because I play them to death when I devote a weekend to a game when renting it, so my game choices are essentially limited to what Blockbuster gets in. They don't get every GameCube game in, but until now it hasn't been an issue, and considering it's a freaking Mario game, I'm surprised I have to even keep asking. I feel I have to now because it will become less reasonable as the game gets older.
I'm probably sounding like a whiner, but am I really being unreasonable? If they once had a whole row on the shelf for Ribbit King, is it so hard to even get ONE copy of a guaranteed hot rental?
Topic: Am I a jerk for pestering the local Blockbuster for not getting Mario Superstar Baseball? (Read 2888 times)
