Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “What Happened to Midnight Launches?”.
What’S up boys, I was recently thinking about how fun midnight releases were for games and consoles. Back in the day, do you have any memorable midnight releases that you went to Bro Halo 2? I went to a bunch, but Halo 2 was the sickest one. Remember there was these dudes that that backed up their, they had a truck, and I I think they had a generator or something in the truck and they had an old CRT. They had an original Xbox and Halo 1 and they ran like a little Halo, 1 tournament in the Halo 2 lineup, which was dope in that same lineup. The people that got there first brought like a camping table and risk, and they just showed up like way earlier than you would expect to, but they just played an entire game of Risk and then the game released because risk takes so long.
So they were just like whatever we we just play Risk at home or you know we just play it here and we get Halo. First, it’s like that’s pretty cool uh. There was like the Halo. 2 lineup was legendary. I remember I had gotten um whatever it was like Xbox magazine yeah, that that had like a some Halo thing on the cover or whatever my my mom got it for me um. So I had read like all the articles in Xbox magazine about Halo and they had this like contest in the line, an an EB Games, employee.
I don’t even think it’s called that anymore. Is it GameStop up here now? I think so. No, it’s still EB Games. Okay, cool yeah, um, an EB Games, employee came out and was like asking quiz questions, and I knew the answers to everything, because I just read read the thing: like a am I going to do um, and so I won something.
I don’t remember what it was it was. It was great. The dude ended up getting mad cuz. I was like the only one, putting up my hand for a bunch of the questions and he’s like no, it has to be someone else and I was like nope. It’S only me got him um. You know what I’m going to give a different answer than you’re.
Probably expecting I could talk about my uh Nintendo Wii uh midnight launches yeah, I’m going to talk about the time that I was on the other side of one. Oh, I got to participate in a number of NC. Oh uh, grand openings. Those were wild, grand openings, yeah yeah.
Those were those were super wild um. I you did one when I worked with you at ncx, but like this was really early on. So I was not a part of it: yeah it was uh the the the energy uh. On the other side, I did a. I did a handful of them. I was there for Langley.
My very first day at NC was the grand opening of the Langley location. Uh, I was just an assistant. I was just like a runner um and the experienced salespeople that we pulled from other locations dealt with all the actual customers and software and everything which didn’t make sense to me at the time I was like.
I could handle it, and then I saw how convoluted and awful their software was later and like oh yeah, it’s probably a good reason. Only experienced people want to touch this piece of garbage um and man, the I I flew out for one or two of the Toronto grand openings or like, like Ontario grand openings in the Toronto area. Sorry, sorry, Mrs Saga, um! No, it’s a real City! I know sort of H just just like how Langley is a real City. Sorry, sorry, Langley um, it’s Vancouver. Man get real um. What else was it yeah yeah it was. It was really fun.
Just like just you know, going out hyping up the crowd. You know chucking stuff at people you know doing like quizzes, like you said like I, I did a lot of that stuff, so that being like, I genuinely Miss midl launches yeah, being like a like, the hype Master for for the launch was was really fun. If there was still midnight launches now, I would go to them now, like 100 %, okay, okay, we should do a midnight launch, I’m down uh, okay. What should we do it for? Do you mean like LTT, store products, or are we just doing mock? No like a product, okay, yeah like we should launch something sure like we kind of did a popup for the backpack, but it but it’ll have to be at midnight.
Yeah, um, okay! Well, you know what here I rather than committing to something now. Why don’t? I just we’d have to release it on the store at midnight too yeah, I’m just going to send a a cryptic email to Nick light. It just says a midnight launch in the subject line and then contains no other information. He likes it when I do that. Good yeah .