{"id":3782,"date":"2010-04-05T15:20:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T15:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2010-04-05T15:20:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T15:20:29","slug":"the-video-game-marketplace-explained-in-one-short-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=3782","title":{"rendered":"The Video Game Marketplace Explained in One Short Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INT. GENERIC GAMESTOP &#8211; DAY<\/p>\n<p>STEPHEN and his six-year-old son ELI enter. ELI is instantly captivated by <i>Super Mario Brothers Wi-hee!<\/i> on the Wii next to the door.<\/p>\n<p><center>STEPHEN<br \/>\nHey, Eli, are you going to stay here by the Wii?<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>ELI<br \/>\nLook, I&#8217;m moving Mario all around the map!<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>STEPHEN<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll take that as a yes.<\/center><\/p>\n<p>STEPHEN wanders over to the Xbox games. He sees that <i>Assassin&#8217;s Creed II<\/i> is on sale for half-off. He dithers for a bit before picking it up and taking it to the counter to buy it.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the counter, GAMESTOP GUY eyes the <i>Assassin&#8217;s Creed II<\/i> box and nods. He&#8217;s in his early 20s, with slightly scruffy hair and the standard Gamestop polo shirt.<\/p>\n<p><center>GAMESTOP GUY<br \/>\nHey, good choice. That game&#8217;s great.<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>STEPHEN<br \/>\nOh? Excellent. So it&#8217;s awesome?<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>GAMESTOP GUY<br \/>\nWell, there&#8217;s a bit of side-boob at the beginning, but after that it&#8217;s all killing.<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center>STEPHEN<br \/>\nOh, uh. (beat) I guess that&#8217;s plenty of awesome, then.<\/center><\/p>\n<p>STEPHEN pays for the game and shuffles away. He manages to get ELI to stop playing <i>Super Mario Brothers Wi-hee!<\/i> and they exeunt, pursued by a bear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INT. GENERIC GAMESTOP &#8211; DAY STEPHEN and his six-year-old son ELI enter. ELI is instantly captivated by Super Mario Brothers Wi-hee! on the Wii next to the door. STEPHEN Hey, Eli, are you going to stay here by the Wii? ELI Look, I&#8217;m moving Mario all around the map! STEPHEN I&#8217;ll take that as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=3782\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Video Game Marketplace Explained in One Short Scene<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3785,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions\/3785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}