Gamestop

I am an avid female gamer and a pro-​member of Gamestop for two years. I drive out of my way to come to this location even though it is farther from my house. At the other locations the staff is friendly, but sometimes come across as condescending and assume that since I’m female, I MUST be looking for a JRPG (maybe later but yes, in fact, I WOULD like Grand Theft Auto 5). I don’t experience that at this location. Every time I am in, the staff engage with me, they ask what I’ve liked and what I haven’t liked, and based on the info I’ve given them, they will recommend a new game and they have yet to recommend a game that I didn’t like. I recommend Power up rewards but only if you consider yourself an avid gamer. I’ve received more coupons and awesome discounts than I can remember and have saved tons on new games and consoles. I wish their location was larger so they could have a larger selection but you can hardly fault them for that. I have purchased almost all of my consoles pre-​owned and they have all functioned perfectly with no issue. Once upon a time I purchased a pre-​owned memory card for a PS Vita and was assured it had been wiped prior to purchase, when in fact, it had not. However, the plethora of positive experiences I had with this location earned them one mistake and still a five star review.

What can I say? It’s a nice Gamestop that is only a few years old. The employees have always been friendly and not pushy about rewards or whatever.

This was the first time I was in this store, came to get my grandson a gift card. The store is a little intimidating if you’re not a «gamer». The nice clerk, Annemarie, helped me and she was great! Gave me a selection of gift cards to choose from and assured me that the card was good at any of their stores. Sure made gift buying easy as I am in Oregon and my grandson is in California!
Christine W.

I seriously debated giving this Gamestop five stars.
Not because of the store itself, but reading the other reviews (complete with name dropping), it almost feels like it could be read by others as a bunch of fake reviews by friends of the employees, or the employees themselves.
I don’t think that’s the case, though, which is why I made my own review.
This Gamestop is tucked into an almost forgotten corner of Keizer Station, next to an empty storefront that used to be Payless shoes, another empty storefront that used to be the home of nothing, and another one bordering that that was part of a pottery-​decorating store that’s now gone bust.
Wow.
But the store itself is bustling.
Large for a Gamestop, and not at all crowded and crammed with garbage, like several you’ll see in malls and whatnot. The displays are usually topical and there’s a huge selection of used games for every console.
Yadda yadda, that’s awesome. But honestly, it really is the employees here that make this one stand out. All of them are knowledgeable on games, upcoming games, old games that senior gamers such as myself (mid-30’s in the hiz-​ouse!) grew up on, all that… these guys (and girls, too) know it. Hell, when you’re talking games with a guy who has Kratos tattooed on his arm, you know they are not just clocking in for a paycheck and a place to kill time every day.
They all do the usual Gamestop bit, pushing you to reserve games. But they don’t throw out Princess Barbie’s Horse Adventures Take 7: This Time It’s Rainbow Personal. They have a knack for looking at what you’re buying, what you’re talking about, and recommending things.
I’ve never had a Madden game pushed onto me, or even a Call of Duty, while checking out… but while picking up Assassin’s Creed III, it was slyly mentioned that that particular day was the first day of pre-​orders for Grand Theft Auto V. Sign me up, chief!
I guess what I’m saying here is that this store is run by gamers and they live for gamers. I’m just as likely to be able to talk about my experiences with Lode Runner back on the NES as I am able to express my disappointment with Dead Island.
Definitely the Gamestop to go to if you live in the Salem/​Keizer area. No doubt about it.

Josh and his team are always super nice and always willing to tell you whats what with games. i appreciate their kindness and always shop here for my games.

Game Stop is Game Stop, right? That’s what I thought too. Until I went to this GS.
Nothing spectacular that makes it stand out as far as GS goes. Same games. Same setup. Same olé same olé. But the difference here was Jake. He was great. I went in there with my two boys, both teens, and he was all over them with cool, hip gamer talk… taking it off of my hands and luring them into his geekspeak. I totally appreciated him. And on top of that, he saved us $ 20 bucks in all that we did there. We were just there for my son to buy his video games. Instead of a five minute jaunt into the game store, we were there for at least half an hour. The enthusiasm he showed my kids was encouraging and we will definitely be back to this location.
These stars are given to this specific store, not to GS as a whole (not that GS as a whole is bad). If you’re ever in the Keizer Station area and need to stop to get your geek fix on, look no further. Thanks Jake!