Nintendo Hires Walking Gamers

Plug1 writes "CNN.com has an interesting article about nintendo hiring people to offer free samples of their games. Stephen Pellitier "will wear a 15-inch flat-screen TV on his chest and a pack of batteries on his back. With a game console and joysticks dangling from his waist, he will spend his weekends inviting passers-by to play games."" imagine the possible pickup lines involving joysticks, buttons, and playing with them! The potential for being beaten on the streets is just amazing!

Comments

there goes the 'kiddy system' argument

[SirSlud]

After all, grab the wrong joystick at this kiosk, and you could end up in a very adult situation!

Re:there goes the 'kiddy system' argument

[FFFish]

Wonder what the uptime is..

Re:there goes the 'kiddy system' argument

[acceleriter]

But Taco's "joystick" is certainly no X-Box controller by any means, if rumors be correct.

Re:there goes the 'kiddy system' argument

[Yorrike]

This is the exact reason why I would have called members of the team "Walking Adverts for Nintendo Games", as opposed to "Nintendo Human Interactive Units", for you see, my naming idea acronyms nicely ; )

Beaten on the streets...

[ralian]

Dude, this guy's probably spent so many years honing his 1337 sk1llz on Street Fighter that he could take any punk ass that tries to take him down... or at least, he thinks he can... ;)

Re:Beaten on the streets...

[chill182]

By this logic I should be the greatest skateboarder, soldier, knight, pilot, plumber, vampire hunter, hedgehog, motocross champion, fighting robot, burger chef, magician, cop, car thief and race car driver that ever lived.

Drug dealers do this !!!

[Kasmiur]

They get kids to sell to other kids. Now apperently Nintendo are taking this route. Whats next offering the first game free?

Nice target

[The Turd Report]

How long until some kids beat this guys ass and take the game? My bet is for less than a week.

Re:Nice target

[teamhasnoi]

How long until someone beats up the kid, takes the game, throws it through the window of the store, sets the store and a marching band on fire, carjacks a car, runs drugs for a mob kingpin, researches the Republic to get Conscription, raises an army and invades Nebraska and the Temple of Nod? I'd say 15 min.

Re:Nice target

[The Turd Report]

Take the kid too. A good, hard working, white boy will sell for $2000 on the black market. I don't want to steal an old ladies purse. What the hell am I going to do with $1.54 in loose change, a time card for bingo at the VFW, a handful of tissues, and three lint covered mints? Go as Bea Authur in the next drag-queen parade?

"I've programmed button #1 for rapid fire!"

[Dr_Marvin_Monroe]

...and the number one pick-up line.....

"My joystick's been 'ruggedized' for exceptional durability and long lasting play!"

Dream

[discstickers]

I'm sorry, but that's my dream job. I'd take near-minimum wage to have that job.

Re:Dream

[Wakko Warner]

You've made my worst-signatures list. Congrats!

Monitor Inversion?

[Cyno01]

Will the guy be able to invert the monitor so if he gets bored he can play himself?

Re:Monitor Inversion?

[daddymac]

Will the guy be able to invert the monitor so if he gets bored he can play himself?

He doesn't need the monitor to play with himself. Besides, eventually he'll go blind from it and won't be able to see the monitor anyway.

Did I just read that?

[jcsehak]

The potential for being beaten on the streets is just amazing!

must... get... mind... out... of... gutter...

This is dumb, everybody knows..

[Anonvmous Coward]

... that color LCD screens don't work outside. I think this is a clever ruse by a parents group to get their kids outside.

Pick-Up Lines

[akiy]

5. I'll make all your Final Fantasies come true.
4. You sure set off my Chrono Trigger.
3. Want to see what I can draw in Mario Paint?
2. I'll be Link, and you can be my Zelda. ... and ...

1. Want to play with my Mario?

Re:Pick-Up Lines

[Bob The Cowboy]

5. I'll make all your Final Fantasies come true.
4. You sure set off my Chrono Trigger.
3. Want to see what I can draw in Mario Paint?
2. I'll be Link, and you can be my Zelda. ... and ...

1. Want to play with my Mario?

No, no.... even better...

"Would you like to meet my little plumber?"

Bill

Re:Pick-Up Lines

[JFMulder]

Don't you think "little plumber" is bit pejorative? Maybe you should introduce her (no pun intended) his big brother Luigi instead.

Re:obligatory comment

[stoolpigeon]

booth-babes has been sitting all bored after E3

Yeah- hot women have absolutely nothing to do unless there's some kind of geek convention going on.

ya know....

[funkmastermike]

Its like those annoying people on the streets wearing chicken costumes telling you to go into the restaurant..
"come on man. play eternal darkness"
'no!'
"come on."
'go away! oh god please go away'

Privacy Concerns?

[anthony_dipierro]

Doesn't anyone have concerns about Nintendo collecting information on how good of a game player they are? Sure, you say, you might have nothing to hide, but what about others that do?

Re:Beaten up?

[morgajel]

you may be tough, but you still look like a frickin teletubbie.

Re:The Amazing Walking Bilboard

[trapvector]

We all knew this was going to happen at some point. We are already a walking advertisements (nike hats, shoes, shirts, etc..) it's really about time in this day and age that human advertising machine became interactive.

Yeah, I read some story someplace about how in the future, newspapers will be sold by shouting children on street corners instead of those dumb old machines.

(I, personally, could never spend six hours watching other people play gamecube at my expense. I'd have to take on all comers in a Super Monkey Ball deathmatch.)

Slashdot 2012

[Patrick13]

Walking Video Game Class Action Suit Victory

The 13 surviving "walking video game" employees had a major victory in court today when Dr. Robert E. Burdick, medical expert witness for the class action suit showed that the flat panel screens used to display the games on the "walking video game" employees actually exposed its wearers to 800 times the amount of radiation as would typically be used in a dental x-ray.

Nintendo's defense panel had no comment, except to say that their medical expert would also be testifying as soon as his chemotherapy treatments permitted.

In other news, the goatse.cx troll is still actively spamming the slashdot comment boards.

Duck Hunt?

[nullard]

I know it's for the original NES, but just immagine playing Duck Hunt like this. Passersby might freak out.

Obligatory comment.

[MongooseCN]

Hey baby want to push some of my buttons?

I hope M$ doesn't try to get in on this.

[terrab0t]

I can just imagine the pictures in that CNN article: Kids walking around hunched over with strained faces trying to lug those whopping X-Boxes around all day. You'd see the occasional one on the ground being kicked by dorks in penguin T-shirts.

Re:$100 a day, $35000 per year??

[Latent IT]

Yeah, and half the kids who took this job are thinking, "Wow, that's like... two games a DAY!"

Oh, come on...

[Mulletproof]

I have two words for yas baby...

"Force Feedback"

Er, right. I'll be going now.

BREAKING NEWS!!

[thedbp]

The first deployment of Mobile Nintendo Gaming Persons came to a sudden, terrifying halt today as they unloaded from their Suburban.

A gang of uppity mimes armed with make believe billy clubs and pretend guns violently pantomimed through the vicious, grisly murders of each and every one of the Nintendo employees.

Although no one was injured, the crystal-clear depiction of their own demise sent the Gaming crew into a deep, trance-like coma.

"Obviously," said the police spokesman, "we are dealing with ninja mimes."
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Re:Dallas

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean apart from the fact that she told Nintendo her favorite game was Soul Calibur? Quite a woman.