This strip marked the first month of d+pad’s existence and we celebrated with a bit of self-referential humour. Hooray for us!

For Rick, working in a video game store was like being a kid in a candy store. Except the candy store was a video game store, and Rick liked video games instead of candy. Actually, Rick liked candy too. Anyway, his enthusiasm was infectious if not also distracting, especially during …

The Add-On Ninja, like all of d+pad’s characters, was based on a real person. In this case, our store manager. He rarely ignored an opportunity to increase the value of a total sale and would literally appear out of nowhere with some choice extras to go with whatever the customer …

For those who may not remember, The Bouncer was one of the early PS2 titles. This next-gen fighting game by Square rode into stores on an immense wave of hype and nearly everyone who bought a PS2 at launch made it part of their bundle. We sold a tonne of …

No, that customer isn’t topless. Strange and humourous things can happen when saving images with a limited colour profile. I could “fix” it, but this is how the strip originally ran and it doesn’t seem right (or necessary) to do so despite the odd comment I receive about it now …

Well, well. Week three. One more week, and this will win the award for being the longest running gig I’ve had all year. Joe tells me that we’re now getting actual people visiting our humble site. (I just tell him that so he’ll keep on drawing strips -JBE) I’d like …

Actually, the real margins are in pre-owned games which is why most game stores constantly badger you to trade your stuff in. It’s mostly a win-win situation if you can let go of how much you paid for a game when it was new. To save myself from trade-in shock …

Here’s a tip: If you somehow missed Black & White when it came out back in 2001, look around for a copy and pick it up. It’s still a better game than 80% of what’s being released today. And it should run really well on today’s PCs too. Has it …