Player 1 Video Games — Local services in Friendswood

Ladies beware.

This used to be one of my favorite stores to visit. I would stop by every week when I got groceries next door. Naturally as someone visiting so often I got chatty with the people working the counter and started talking to one of the employees. We started hanging out when he wasn't working. I was really happy to! I thought it was great that I had a new friend to share so many of my interests. He started visiting me at my job, too, which I appreciated. I knew he was going out of his way to see me, because he didn't like the food we sold and there's another of the same exact store right next to him he could go to, rather than my location in Alvin. After a while he started making romantic advances towards me. I was 17 at the time, he was 21. I shot them down and remained friends with him. Maybe I'm partly to blame, I shoudn't have remained friends with someone that age, but being homeschooled and working a pretty intense retail job, almost ALL of my friends are around that age, some older. I didn't think it was weird. He started commenting on how mature I was for my age. (I'm not. I can guarantee that even if I can get serious when I need to, I'm a kid, and I act my age.) I tried to be upfront with my emotions in turning him down but I probably should have been more stern. Because the advances and the comments kept coming. They were little, but they wore at me. It bothered me that despite me telling him that I wasn't interested he kept pushing to see how far I'd let it slide. He started to drunk text me one night when I finally decided enough was enough. I removed him from my socials and stopped talking to him. I stopped going to Player 1. When I didn't show up the day I usually came around during groceries, he showed up at my work. I wasn't scared, I knew I wasn't in any danger but the lack of respect of my own BOUNDARIES was at a new high. I had to explain the situation to my coworkers because he had now brought this into my JOB. Thankfully he didn't come again after that, but I was miffed.

At one point during our friendship I was in the middle of a job hunt to try and get away from where I worked because of ongoing problems I was having there. I remember he had mentioned that 'Player 1 doesn't hire girls' because they cause drama. It makes me wonder where the priorities lie to protect an employee like that, but refuse to hire a woman because for such a pathetic excuse. It makes me wonder if a girl working there and "causing problems" to make that become a rule in the first place was in a position like mine, and not letting someone disrespect her boundaries and make her feel uncomfortable was her "causing drama" and not the full grown man acting the way he was. That could be reading to much into it, I know that one person doesn't reflect an entire store. But that was my favorite store, one worth a five star, short and sweet, happy review. I can't go to that store anymore

And if he's reading this, I'm NOT mature for my age. I wasn't a 17 year old acting like I was 21. You're a 21 year old acting...

So every negative review recently is about price. Wah wah peasants. I've been buying from this fine establishment for YEARS, maybe almost a decade now (man I'm getting old), and I've never had any issues.

All of their stuff is 100% genuine and works. They don't take in crappy copies of games with lots of scratches or broken cases. They don't reprint all of their missing box art and then make you pay premium prices like its a mint copy (like a certain Heights based retro game store). All of their boxed items are labeled if they are CIB or not. These guys are legit.

Are they a little bit pricier than others? Sure maybe, but that's because you're buying from a REAL retro game shop with REAL employees, not some junk warehouse from escambay or facebook scammyplace. I never leave this store empty handed. they always have something cool when I go in there. Unlike other stores that have 3 shelves worth of NCAA 2009 football for a decade, they actually have a real revolving inventory with new stuff coming in all the time. I hope you guys stick around long after I'm dust in the wind. Thanks for helping me and my little bro bond over our...

Player 1 has many things going for it. The store is clean, well laid out, neatly arranged, and has a large and varied inventory of retro games, accessories, and systems. Plus, the guys behind the counter are very friendly and helpful. However, I won't be paying them another visit anytime soon. Why? Their pricing is all over the place. I managed to purchase a couple of games for relatively decent prices but had to sift through several sections of their store just to find them. $50 for a fair condition loose copy of Pokemon Emerald? No thanks, more like $30 tops. That's just one of several dozens of examples of wonky pricing I came upon throughout the store. I would have docked another star off of this review had their pricing been that consistently terrible, but it ranged across a wide margin so I can't fault them much for that.

If you're an avid retro game collector I would still recommend paying them at least one visit, but beyond that stick to the Game Over Videogames just inside 610 off 59, or hit up Game Bros. over...