The other day I ordered a box of googly eyes. Imagine my surprise when the box contained no googly eyes, but a ton of Switch game cartridges instead. Now I remain with an empty googly eye drawer.
Lmao, I knew this would happen. I remember people saying this channel wouldn't impact the main one and it's just more Arlo content, and yet here we are.
I'm not super familiar with Pikmin games, I only played an hour or so of the first one, so watching this footage is kinda fascinating for me. Nearly the entire video, it just seemed like normal Pikmin, semi-cozy, casual, kinda chill, then suddenly at the end you're being CHASED BY AN ELECTRICALLY CHARGED DOG AND BARELY KEEPING AHEAD OF HIM OH MY GOD PEOPLE PLAY THIS GAME TO RELAX?
If you think that electric dog is scary, wait till you see the Pikmin 4 final boss lol. Pikmin is mostly a cozy game but nothing is more stressful than hearing your Pikmin die somewhere and frantically looking around to try to save them. That’s what’s fun about it!
It is both the most calming and most stressful series. You’re just walking around, casually collecting some stuff and looking around, really letting yourself into the music, then you hear the Pikmin dying from the distance and suddenly it’s all “OH GOD! OH GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING WHY ARE THE PIKMIN DYING OH GOD”
Its hilarious that you buy a game and do t get the game that you paid 60 bucks for? Im not trying to be a buzz kill, but it is weird to me that people are calling people stealing switch games and scamming others is hilarious. Am i missing something?
That truly happened to me years ago. I got the Sly Cooper Collection for PS Vita on Easter. That’s when I learned that the cartridge only contains the first two games. Sly 3 was tied to a download code on a piece of paper. A download code that had expired years prior.
Arlo, this was really disappointing how light you made of this. Did you not know of the impact that the demand of googly eyes has lead to mass poaching of endangered googlies in their native habitats?
I used to work at a tabletop game store and we would shrink wrap used games people would trade in. Incredibly easy to do. You just need the plastic wrap and a heat gun and it looks exactly how you would find a new game wrapped in a store. The googly eye bandit probably has this gear lol
I had an old friend who used to bring googly eyes into high school and would stick them on the walls in silly areas. The Goggly Eye bandit strikes again!!
Since no one else has said this seemingly. This did not just start happening, this started years ago, but people have posted it, the idea has spread, and there are more people returning empty cases "unopened" to stores.
@@TheKrazybomb I'm my case, Walmart manager said it was on the warehousing side, and gave me a phone number to call. Though it could be warehousing, I think it's people ripping off the games and the returning after resealing, then selling the single carts. Happened to me during holiday times, probably because of high shopper traffic, it's easier to make returns without being noticed. Right after I started seeing a bunch of Reddit posts about it
Feels like there would be some incredible irony to this if the game in question were like, Banjo-Kazooie. One would wonder if it were social commentary for a second, until they realized they'd been ripped off.
Ever since I was a kid and bought a stack of empty boxes from a gaming store (thankfully I checked just outside the door.) I've made a habit of opening used games and checking for a disk/cartridge and check for scratches at the register, I'd recommend doing the same to anything that isn't shrink wrapped.
I would do this prank with friends but hide the cartridges nearby while leaving the googly eye in the case lol or bring it over as a gift, but have the cartridge in my hand behind my back ready to actually be gifted
"Even if it is a silly prank, it is a victimless one" I mean, if I spent $100 on a new game and got home to a googly eye instead of the cartridge I'd be pretty pissed, ngl Edit: For any late arrivals, armaldo corrected my misinterpretation already, so thank you to them, I didn't think it made much sense for Arlo to think the prank I thought he was referring to was funny
@@chiquita683 "you can afford to get scammed just because you were able to buy something for yourself" What kind of stupid white privilege take is this?!
I definitely thought ht next TopicArlo video would be about the Lego Gameboy from yesterday. On the cusp of releasing one of the most anticipated and leaked consoles of all time, the Kings of Left Field decide to release a Lego Gameboy
Happened to me a couple weeks ago when buying Red Dead Redemption, but without the googly eye, just the foam lining they put in games place. Upon closer inspection of spine, you can tell where they opened and resealed it.
I remember listening to Caspar Babypants as a kid. I was 4 when the song "Googly Eyes" was released in 2010. I think it's cool to hear someone reference that song 14 years later
So this kind of happened to me. I picked up mario party from Target and got home and there was just a black-taped piece of cardboard in the game slot. Target didn't believe me (they thought i was trying to scam them) and Nintendo said it couldn't have been an issue on their side. Someone bought it, took the game out and re-shrink wrapped it so they could return it. Upon closer inspection, the box art for the game was fuzzy looking, so they just replaced the entire case too.
I haven't thought about googly eyes in forever. I love the word googly. What a delightful word. Googly. But what a bizarre story. If this is true, that's not just theft but a prank, which is even worse. If this is just a meme people are faking for fun, then yeah it's pretty funny.
And throughout all of the holidays no kids were filmed opening a Nintendo game with googlie eyes? Sounds like people faking it for social media or trying to convince retailers to give them a refund while pocketing the game...
Uh oh, oh no! I just got my aunt a new game for her Switch for Christmas and I don't think she's opened it yet, gosh I better go warn her about those vile googly eyes, thanks for the heads up Arlo!
Arlo, could you please bring back the puppet? I miss it so much. It gave your videos a unique identity, but we hardly ever get to see it anymore since TopicArlo became the main channel. Even just stock footage from past videos that isn't lipsynced to what you're saying in the current video wouuld be something. I also kind of wish you would show footage relevant to what you're talking about, like, plop some pictures of the googly eyed Switch cases on screen as you talk about them. Instead we have 8 minutes of unedited Pikmin footage, which isn't really relevant to the video's topic. Even if you didn't want to go through the effort of editing together some imagery to suit the topic of the video, you could have gone with footage of Banjo-Kazooie since, you know, googly eyes. I still enjoy your videos, don't get me wrong, I just kinda miss how things used to be.
5:57 victimless? the customer who bought the game and has to return it and hope the store believes them the retailer who bought the game wholesale Nintendo's reputation is damaged if it turns out it happened at the factory
It is possible, with a flashlight, to illuminate the game cases enough where you can see the bottom of the googly eye/game cart. If you see ridges you're good...otherwise you may have been googlied.
awww its a scam i heard it at the start and i just assumed and was hoping that it was nintendo just sticking a googly eye inside of random switch cases in addition to the cart
Here’s how the story SHOULD go: At the cost of making more profit, Nintendo is so sick and tired of all these leaks and rumors that they are gonna hide googly eyes in random cases for Switch Successor games. The googly eyed cases will also have a note in your region’s native language that reads, “We ran out of ways to surprise you. You should’ve waited.”
In all my very many years of gaming. I've seen ONE personal instance of "this isn't the game" - House of the Dead overkill on Wii. Opened it up. looked like a cheap burned CD. Thought out was a joke, like when Aqua Teen Hunger Force did the same thing, and it made sense for the game. Turned out it actually WAS a cheap burned copy stuck in before very convincingly resealing the game. I have no idea how yet pulled it off and it took a LOT of work to convince the Walmart store manager I wasn't making it up. I open all my physical copies in store now.l
Found a Reddit thread from 4 months ago , but most reports I’ve seen are from the last few days, like ign etc, put out an article. It was for echoes of wisdom. He also said Walmart gave him a new copy. So I assume most reports must be copycats of this one if it’s fake. Seems more likely to be a shipping error if it’s not a big hoax
How did you not take the opportunity to mention Everything, Everywhere All at Once. Unless you were just doing the tongue-in-cheek subtle reference since you basically said the title in various parts of your video. If so, well played.
The Switch 2 “C” button is for checking for googlie eyes in game cases before purchase.
it's called the C button for a reason to C the googlie before buying the game (sorry for the awful pun)
I'll forgive you
The other day I ordered a box of googly eyes. Imagine my surprise when the box contained no googly eyes, but a ton of Switch game cartridges instead.
Now I remain with an empty googly eye drawer.
The tragedy!
I'm sorry to hear that. I hope the store will return your purchase.
“An eye of googlic nature”
Love this line
i found u
A word smith, to be sure.
"They're hacking the mainframe "
"Uhhh in English four eyes?"
"They're googling our switch cases"
"Now you're speaking my language"
"The search engine?"
i understood this reference
At this point, I'm convinced Arlo forgot the password to the original UA-cam account but has no time to get it changed
Lmao, I knew this would happen. I remember people saying this channel wouldn't impact the main one and it's just more Arlo content, and yet here we are.
@@Tubuxis Honestly while the main channel is more creative, I enjoy this format more. It's just more casual and "real"
Unironically lol
the Internet Historian dilema
@@darcidious99 100% this. I'd rather more Arlo than less Arlo. Give me unscripted thoughts on stuff at any point!
I'm not super familiar with Pikmin games, I only played an hour or so of the first one, so watching this footage is kinda fascinating for me. Nearly the entire video, it just seemed like normal Pikmin, semi-cozy, casual, kinda chill, then suddenly at the end you're being CHASED BY AN ELECTRICALLY CHARGED DOG AND BARELY KEEPING AHEAD OF HIM OH MY GOD PEOPLE PLAY THIS GAME TO RELAX?
If you think that electric dog is scary, wait till you see the Pikmin 4 final boss lol. Pikmin is mostly a cozy game but nothing is more stressful than hearing your Pikmin die somewhere and frantically looking around to try to save them. That’s what’s fun about it!
It is both the most calming and most stressful series. You’re just walking around, casually collecting some stuff and looking around, really letting yourself into the music, then you hear the Pikmin dying from the distance and suddenly it’s all “OH GOD! OH GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING WHY ARE THE PIKMIN DYING OH GOD”
@@tristang7982 the baldy long legs in you know where scared me so fucking hard when i played pikmin 4 for the first time
Mmmm yes I love my $70 Tears of the Kingdom Special Edition GOOGLY EYE.
Just bought hundreds of googly eyes for my kids' crafting. Now I feel like I have to hide them when Nintendo-loving friends come by.
The wildest part of this whole story is Arlo not being 100% certain that everyone has a googly eye drawer. Of course we do!
😭 🗄️ "Mom found the googly eyes drawer"
Are you admitting to something here buddy???
...thats an ominous title. I thought the actual explanation would be worse but this is hilarious.
Its hilarious that you buy a game and do t get the game that you paid 60 bucks for? Im not trying to be a buzz kill, but it is weird to me that people are calling people stealing switch games and scamming others is hilarious. Am i missing something?
@@bas_ee You aren't.
@@bas_ee
Gosh, I'm not celebrating people getting scammed, it's just... the innate ridiculousness of the concept. Like, googly eyes? Really???????????
@@bas_eeI mean if this is a widespread issue, they should be returnable, right? Hopefully?
@@bas_eeIts fighting against Capitalism, there is no reason a game should be $60
It also had happened to me with Xbox games, but instead of googly eyes they put just a paper with a code. what a rip off
That truly happened to me years ago. I got the Sly Cooper Collection for PS Vita on Easter. That’s when I learned that the cartridge only contains the first two games.
Sly 3 was tied to a download code on a piece of paper. A download code that had expired years prior.
how do I heart a comment on somebody else's video
Arlo, this was really disappointing how light you made of this. Did you not know of the impact that the demand of googly eyes has lead to mass poaching of endangered googlies in their native habitats?
A possible way to counter this is to open the cover in the shop. Then the shop might replace it with an actual cartridge
I used to work at a tabletop game store and we would shrink wrap used games people would trade in. Incredibly easy to do. You just need the plastic wrap and a heat gun and it looks exactly how you would find a new game wrapped in a store. The googly eye bandit probably has this gear lol
You've been hit by
You've been struck by
A smoooooth googly-eye!
OW! I am looking at the man with the googly-eyes!
This needs more likes
Your honor, I was just making an Everything Everywhere All at Once reference
I had an old friend who used to bring googly eyes into high school and would stick them on the walls in silly areas. The Goggly Eye bandit strikes again!!
4:20 I do actually 😭 A local game store sold me an empty Xenoblade 3 case a while back and I have been recording the unboxings since
Since no one else has said this seemingly.
This did not just start happening, this started years ago, but people have posted it, the idea has spread, and there are more people returning empty cases "unopened" to stores.
yup, remember seeing someone post about it on reddit like 6 months ago and it reaching r/all
[Shakes Fist] PLAYTONIC!
I would feel really ripped off if I didn't get two googly eyes
I actually know someone who had this happen to them! It really sucks tbh. Thankfully some stores are willing to trade back and give you a new copy.
@@TheKrazybomb I'm my case, Walmart manager said it was on the warehousing side, and gave me a phone number to call. Though it could be warehousing, I think it's people ripping off the games and the returning after resealing, then selling the single carts. Happened to me during holiday times, probably because of high shopper traffic, it's easier to make returns without being noticed. Right after I started seeing a bunch of Reddit posts about it
Feels like there would be some incredible irony to this if the game in question were like, Banjo-Kazooie. One would wonder if it were social commentary for a second, until they realized they'd been ripped off.
Real social commentary would be to leave the game in the box and fill all the remaining space with googly eyes.
Ever since I was a kid and bought a stack of empty boxes from a gaming store (thankfully I checked just outside the door.) I've made a habit of opening used games and checking for a disk/cartridge and check for scratches at the register, I'd recommend doing the same to anything that isn't shrink wrapped.
I would do this prank with friends but hide the cartridges nearby while leaving the googly eye in the case lol or bring it over as a gift, but have the cartridge in my hand behind my back ready to actually be gifted
Alternate Prank:
Buy them multiple games and swap the games around.
Total Scramble.
This actually sucks. Returning products, especially if you ordered them, is a hassle and even more devastating if you’re low income.
"Even if it is a silly prank, it is a victimless one"
I mean, if I spent $100 on a new game and got home to a googly eye instead of the cartridge I'd be pretty pissed, ngl
Edit: For any late arrivals, armaldo corrected my misinterpretation already, so thank you to them, I didn't think it made much sense for Arlo to think the prank I thought he was referring to was funny
He's talking about lying about the googly eyes being an issue being victimless.
If you can afford a modern console you can afford $100, stop it
@@chiquita683 "you can afford to get scammed just because you were able to buy something for yourself"
What kind of stupid white privilege take is this?!
@@chiquita683 What are you even saying? Because he can afford to lose $100 he should be okay with getting scammed?
@chiquita683 what on earth are you saying?
I definitely thought ht next TopicArlo video would be about the Lego Gameboy from yesterday. On the cusp of releasing one of the most anticipated and leaked consoles of all time, the Kings of Left Field decide to release a Lego Gameboy
No, that's ridiculous! Wait, I can feel it happening... Stop, STOOOOOP!!! 👀
"Switch! He's stealing game cartridges and replacing them into smelly knickknacks!"
Happened to me a couple weeks ago when buying Red Dead Redemption, but without the googly eye, just the foam lining they put in games place. Upon closer inspection of spine, you can tell where they opened and resealed it.
As a matter of fact, yes, I do have a bag of googley eyes. They're backups for my googley-eyed skunk shirt.
I remember listening to Caspar Babypants as a kid. I was 4 when the song "Googly Eyes" was released in 2010. I think it's cool to hear someone reference that song 14 years later
It's actually a promotional from Nintendo to build up hype for their upcoming game, "Eyes", a sequel to Arms where you fight with your eyes
So this kind of happened to me. I picked up mario party from Target and got home and there was just a black-taped piece of cardboard in the game slot. Target didn't believe me (they thought i was trying to scam them) and Nintendo said it couldn't have been an issue on their side. Someone bought it, took the game out and re-shrink wrapped it so they could return it.
Upon closer inspection, the box art for the game was fuzzy looking, so they just replaced the entire case too.
I haven't thought about googly eyes in forever. I love the word googly. What a delightful word. Googly.
But what a bizarre story. If this is true, that's not just theft but a prank, which is even worse.
If this is just a meme people are faking for fun, then yeah it's pretty funny.
And throughout all of the holidays no kids were filmed opening a Nintendo game with googlie eyes?
Sounds like people faking it for social media or trying to convince retailers to give them a refund while pocketing the game...
It’s mostly harmless - the one harm I could potentially see is someone getting trouble from the retailer if they try and return the game
Somebody at the cartridge factory was bored at work.
Good googly moogly!
all of a sudden having GameStop open your game is a good idea
Uh oh, oh no! I just got my aunt a new game for her Switch for Christmas and I don't think she's opened it yet, gosh I better go warn her about those vile googly eyes, thanks for the heads up Arlo!
Yeah, well president of the United States of America. Thanks for returning me onto Caspar Babypants Arlo.
"Googly eye situation is crazy"
Must be this new "Water Buffalo Cult" everyone is talking about... 😂
I, for one, welcome our new googlie-eye overlords
Arlo, could you please bring back the puppet? I miss it so much. It gave your videos a unique identity, but we hardly ever get to see it anymore since TopicArlo became the main channel. Even just stock footage from past videos that isn't lipsynced to what you're saying in the current video wouuld be something. I also kind of wish you would show footage relevant to what you're talking about, like, plop some pictures of the googly eyed Switch cases on screen as you talk about them. Instead we have 8 minutes of unedited Pikmin footage, which isn't really relevant to the video's topic. Even if you didn't want to go through the effort of editing together some imagery to suit the topic of the video, you could have gone with footage of Banjo-Kazooie since, you know, googly eyes. I still enjoy your videos, don't get me wrong, I just kinda miss how things used to be.
5:57 victimless?
the customer who bought the game and has to return it and hope the store believes them
the retailer who bought the game wholesale
Nintendo's reputation is damaged if it turns out it happened at the factory
if it's a hoax I can see it being a harmless troll but if real it's definitely not victimless
I'm curious, is this an US problem only or are there any cases in Europe and Asia too?
Arlo is a "Googly-Eye" Truther now.
It is possible, with a flashlight, to illuminate the game cases enough where you can see the bottom of the googly eye/game cart. If you see ridges you're good...otherwise you may have been googlied.
Sounds like something Professor Chaos would do.
They got it from Stu's classics 💀
This is a scandal of googly proportions
awww its a scam i heard it at the start and i just assumed and was hoping that it was nintendo just sticking a googly eye inside of random switch cases in addition to the cart
A disaster of googlical proportions
Here’s how the story SHOULD go: At the cost of making more profit, Nintendo is so sick and tired of all these leaks and rumors that they are gonna hide googly eyes in random cases for Switch Successor games.
The googly eyed cases will also have a note in your region’s native language that reads,
“We ran out of ways to surprise you. You should’ve waited.”
The “C” button stands for “Come on, just reveal the console already!!!!”
This isnt an isolated incident.. I even downloaded a game from the eshop and all I got was tile of a googly eye 😢
Just another January Christmas stock clearance strategy
Happened to me, brand new switch game sealed from walmart.
I just miss getting a manual inside the game case...
Every night I dream about googly eyes.
So... someone is basically putting in fake cartridges... with googly eyes... because it makes it sound more authentic...
I'm... at a loss for words...
Oh Arlo... This is not a victimless crime if one of these claimants demands a replacement from a retailer or Nintendo. That's the crime.
THE EYE OF SAURON STARES UPON YOU
I think this should have been a main channel video.
In all my very many years of gaming. I've seen ONE personal instance of "this isn't the game" - House of the Dead overkill on Wii. Opened it up. looked like a cheap burned CD. Thought out was a joke, like when Aqua Teen Hunger Force did the same thing, and it made sense for the game.
Turned out it actually WAS a cheap burned copy stuck in before very convincingly resealing the game. I have no idea how yet pulled it off and it took a LOT of work to convince the Walmart store manager I wasn't making it up.
I open all my physical copies in store now.l
I thought this was going to be a video about nintendo fans having expectations too high lol 😆 Didn't think this would literally be about googly eyes 👀
Found a Reddit thread from 4 months ago , but most reports I’ve seen are from the last few days, like ign etc, put out an article. It was for echoes of wisdom. He also said Walmart gave him a new copy. So I assume most reports must be copycats of this one if it’s fake. Seems more likely to be a shipping error if it’s not a big hoax
I'd just make the most of it and pretend my $60 googly eye is the new Metroid game. Imagination is the best game of all. :)
28 of December: Equivalent to April's fool in many countries
End of story
Ok, but do we get water buffalo's too and do they have googley eyes?
it's a switch 2 accessory
This title had me googly eyed
Are Nintendo fans getting "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once'd"???
2025 is the year of Googly Eyes
I think this is happening at the factory
Have to go find this song now thanks Arlo🎉
Butternut Squash? Yes Please!
It probably happened ONE TIME
Bugsnax aesthetic
👀”Pikmin”👀
Sounds like a fake prank i.e. people claiming it are lying.
Nintendo would sell a googly eye for 60 dollars.
My guess is that this is Nintendo's version of DRM.
How did you not take the opportunity to mention Everything, Everywhere All at Once. Unless you were just doing the tongue-in-cheek subtle reference since you basically said the title in various parts of your video. If so, well played.
When i saw the title i thought this would be something like "Nintendo fans are letting Nintendo get away with to much" but nope, Just another joke.
wow an original video huh, i didnt know you had that in you.
Breadbug.
"Victimless crime"? Theft?
I'm confused
So not multiple eyes?
I’m sorry, what
Hope that's only an a thing over in the states lul
still a better deal than luigis mansion 2 hd
Imagine they do this to consoles
Isn't the game sealed in plastic?😅
Yeah yeah yeah that's fine thank you
That is the funniest thing I have ever heard
But Googly eyes would be funny.