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I’ve been wanting to write this Tales from the Frontline for a while but I needed a second story to truly make it worth a post. If you are a regular reader or video review watcher, you know that I’ve been working as a SEGA Nintendo representative out there in the GTA.

Now, I’ve chatted to a ton of gaming fans from the casual spectrum to the ultra hardcore but nothing beats an unexpected SEGA fan -- especially when they are old enough to be my parents.

Women are Buying Bayonetta

Even Ladies like Bayonetta.

Maybe because SEGA has tied the Bayonetta brand to Playboy, Maxim and UFC, I assumed that the target demographic for the title was male. However, I would have never known it this weekend. The most vocal Bayonetta fans I met who were purchasing the title were women. One aged about 21 and the other aged 56.

I kid you not -- the older woman could’ve been my mother.

“Who are you getting the game for?” I asked foolishly of the older lady in a down jacket and feathered hat.

“Who? The older lady replied shocked, pushing her glasses up the brim of her nose. “Why -- it is for me!”

With wide eyes, I gasped: “That’s…that’s awesome.”

Both ladies had played the demo on PSN and came out to the stores to pick the game up because they thought it was wicked. I told them that I had beaten the game and that they haven’t seen anything yet.

The 56-year-old was particularly hilarious as she told me the action was so fast and furious that she had to put down the controller because she was getting too excited. Heart palpitations is all I could think of in my head.

She also told me that she was happy to see a great SEGA game come out and hoped to see more great SEGA games coming out.

I told her to keep an eye out for Yakuza 3, Aliens VS. Predator, and Project Needlemouse -- she was that hardcore.

Also, for whatever reason, Toy’R'Us in Canada isn’t carrying Bayonetta…I have no idea why…

THE SEGA SCREAMER:

Just before Christmas, I was working the holiday rush helping last  minute shoppers choose Nintendo goodies to go under the tree. Out of the corner of my eye, I spied an old man with milk white hair with thick black brimmed glasses gazing at the wall of games.

He wore a short leather coat and  held his hands at his hips. He had the poise of a Grade 9 Science teacher marking quizzes in the way he furrowed his bushy white eyebrows at the Wii titles.

Thinking he was confused, I went up to him and spoke:

“Hi, do you need any help finding a particular game or do you need a suggestion?”

He looked at me, pursed his lips and said very matter-of-factly: “Oh no, I don’t buy Nintendo. When my kids were young I didn’t buy them a Nintendo…I bought them a SEGA!”

He didn’t just say the word -- he screamed it -- right there in the store full of people -- a full on: “SEGA!” And he kept yelling it everytime he said the word just like in the old commercials:

“You might not remember SEGA! But I used to love playing SEGA! They used to have those TV ads where they yelled out: SEGA! I used to play that SEGA! every day. It loved SEGA!”

He looked at him squarely, and said: “Well, I am a big SEGA fan. In fact, if I was to get a text message right now my phone would scream out the word: ‘SEGA!’”

He laughed and said “That’s good…that’s good. Nothing beats a SEGA!”

“Too true,” I replied taking his hand and giving it a heartfelt shake.  ”Dude,” I said. “Dude…you are alright…”

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