I haven't been in a gaming store in quite a while because of digital sales. I swear a lot of Sony and Steam sale blow the physical stores by a landslide. That said, I can't particularly remember anything bad or good that happened to me or anyone else the last few times I went there.

Went yesterday to MediaMarkt (biggest electronic market in Germany) and saw a man buying Black Ops 2... -> Dude, this game is already 3 1/2 years old and nobody plays this game online anymore...
Oh and I saw kids playing 3DS (I see this everytime when I go to MediaMarkt).

I see boxes of blue,

green ones too.

I see none of that,

for 3DS and Wii U.

And i think to myself,

no Ninty games for my shelf.

I see a mouse of blue

and a keyboard of white.

The bright TV screen,

the dark PS4.

And i think to myself,

no Ninty games for my shelf

The colours of LBP3

so pretty on the box.

Are also on Sunset Overdrive

on Microsoft's XBox.

I see friends buying a game

saying "omg m8 git hype".

They're really saying "<insert rhyme from rhyme pipe>"

I usually just walk in, get what I want and walk out. Never really anything major happening other than a few adverts since the game store near my house is pretty small.

Horrible. I walked into Walmart early in the morning on the release of the new Super Mario amiibos and Mario Party 10. I asked them if they had Toad amiibo, the guy didn't even know what the heck that was. The walmart didn't have any of the new amiibos out or Mario Party 10 out. The guy said he'd have to check the back boxes and see if they're in. This isn't how a store should be for items that are suppose to be released.

....I went to a 2nd walmart right after i was disappointed with the first (I have 2 walmarts within 5km of eachother) and exact same scenario. Getting launch items at my walmarts sucks.

All I can say is buy local. Where I live the locally owned single game stores are WAAAY better than Gamestop and other chains.  You are actually helping a local group of people or family to your city rather than a corporation.  AND they often have game tournaments, wicked specials, classes related to game design and gaming, huge projectors to play games on, arcade machines in store, custom controller building / sales etc...

Raichu's Gamestop is fine, employees are nice.
I basically use it for rare pre-order as I really dislike them hardly ever having new versions of games, especially for Vita.

"Ah, here it...Seen-ran Kag-you-ray, what's that about? Never heard of it."
"Ninjas. And stuff."
"Cool."

I look forward to picking up "One-cha-nee-bear-uh" and explaining it's about zombies...and stuff.