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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!
After all, grab the wrong joystick at this kiosk, and you could end up in a very adult situation!
"Old man yells at systemd"
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... ;)
-raph
They get kids to sell to other kids. Now apperently Nintendo are taking this route. Whats next offering the first game free?
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How long until some kids beat this guys ass and take the game? My bet is for less than a week.
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...and the number one pick-up line.....
"My joystick's been 'ruggedized' for exceptional durability and long lasting play!"
I'm sorry, but that's my dream job. I'd take near-minimum wage to have that job.
I have a shitty sig!
Will the guy be able to invert the monitor so if he gets bored he can play himself?
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
The potential for being beaten on the streets is just amazing!
must... get... mind... out... of... gutter...
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... that color LCD screens don't work outside. I think this is a clever ruse by a parents group to get their kids outside.
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.
Think about the future this could bring, We advance from having a flat screen on the front and batteries on the back to an imbeded LCD/plasma screen in the chest and runs right off the electricity created by the brain. The games/advertisements are stored in the brain as well and just played back from memory.
Who needs walls and signs when the human body could do it more efficiently.
Of course, when this happens for real, I think it will be time to check myself out of the gene pool.
Trying to be different, just like everyone else.
Ya these guys better make sure they stay in the good areas... otherwise they'll get mugged and that gear stolen.
Hell - I might even steal it.
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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.
1. Want to play with my Mario?
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Boy, do I feel sorry for these people. I used to work for a promotional marketing company (who would subcontract to do these kinds of promotions), and this is some of the hardest work you can imagine. People are downright MEAN to people who do this kind of work, and $100 a day would not be enough to get me to do it!
You think being beat up is unrealistic? How about taking insults all day about how much cooler Dreamcast, xbox, is? How about the snotty kid who wants to play for hours? Good luck to these people, they will need it!!!
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Not to mention more of them, with better armaments...
BlackGriffen
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.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
That's why I say 95%. I'm in the top 5 percentile of males in size without being fat.
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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'
After the great dot.com bust and 9/11, advertising has gotten pretty tricky. I imagine that budgets are tight, media options are somewhat slimmer, etc.
The neatest thing about this campaign is that sure...this may not work, but it made national news because it's a new idea.
So...they spend a couple of hundred bucks to pay a few guys to walk around crowded areas on weekends. Pay a couple thousand on hardware...probably about 500 for each. And reap the (probably small benefits) associated with this campaign. But...the national exposure this should generate because of the fact that it's new and wierd would probably have costed hundreds to thousands of times what they spent on the few kids and units.
Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor
The Street Team's website can be found here. They have people in LA, Boston, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, and Dallas.
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?
you may be tough, but you still look like a frickin teletubbie.
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If this really catches on for marketing games, this guy has some hope of realizing his dream.
Soko
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I suppose you're one of those people that has to "disinfect" the seats at a restaruant before you sit down? Those joysticks should be no worse than your average store display joystick. Heck, I'd be surprised if they are any worse than your average public door. Relax, you have an immune system, let it do its job and worry about more important things.
I read the internet for the articles.
About time those pasty kids got outside for a bit, although I'd think that the glare off of their faces would distract the players.
I'm a 140# hippie who practices yoga and kung fu. Occasionally I cross paths with someone like you who announces his might and tries to start a fight. I try to avoid fights, but roid freaks seem to never take no for an answer. I only throw the second punch, and make the first (and only) connect.
Choose your fights carefully, and realize the stupidity in risking your life over material possessions that will soon become worthless.
"What is the sound of one belly slapping?"
Looks like fun.
when all of these out of work .com'ers were going to get a chance to work again. ("Last you saw me I was burning through 40 million VC and had no product --- now I am walking throught the streets with an LCD around my neck and joysticks hooked to my waste....")
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
Whoa... You comb your hair?
my sig's at the bottom of the page.
heh I can see that the recent article about video games slowing down brains has visible results. ;)
"Derp de derp."
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.
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From the CNN article:
So, picture a chubby whale of a kid figuring the same thing about working for McDonalds on account of how much he likes burgers.
An employee telling a corporation how much he loves his job is a bit like an altar boy telling a Catholic priest how much he likes to be spanked.
I know it's for the original NES, but just immagine playing Duck Hunt like this. Passersby might freak out.
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Please hire playboy playmates as walking gamers
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.
"The potential for being beaten on the streets is just amazing!"
No shit. I'd beat up some nintendo smurf to get my hands on a large flatscreen version of the latest & greatest console.
They had booth babes wearing a similar getup (but without a 15" display) at the 2001 E3. Each girl had 4 (as I recall) GBAs strapped to her waist. Each unit was attached via a thin cable on a recoil mechanism so it snapped back into place.
Judging by the looks on some of the girls' faces, I think they were equipped with geek-recoil mechanisms. There's nothing quite like being surrounded by four fat, smelly computer geeks playing games and staring at your tits! (Or so I'm told!)
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Now I can play Street Fighter II Alpha blah blah on the actual *street*.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
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"Force Feedback"
Er, right. I'll be going now.
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For Christ's sake, that removes "playing Morrowind" from the list of things I can do without feeling guilty. All that's left is "selfless toil" and "modding up funny slashdot posts".
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I did pretty well at it, and won a Mario Paint. (It was all location, Christmas time at one of the busiest malls in New Jersey.)
Of course, this version of a Nintendo demostrator sounds like a real life rip off of the Sega game, "The Typing of the Dead." In that game, if you've never seen it, the Agents have Dreamcasts with big batteries attached to their back and Dreamcast keyboards in front as they kill off zombies with a well typed phrase. (Too bad "Typing of the Dead" isn't coming out, as far as I know, for Gamecube. They could package it with the keyboard peripheral they are supposed to release...)
<wistful sigh> ... well, now I'm off to sleep (well, to watch an episode of Trigun and then sleep) I have to go to my boring Web $TITLE job tommorrow... Hope those kids enjoy their time as Nintendo demonstrators... </wistful sigh>
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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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As I said, gamers don't walk, at least in my experience. They get driven in minivans. The older ones drive '86 Nissan Sentras with a big rusted-out hole where the floor used to be under the gas pedal.
Any walking distance greater than that from the car to the mall tends to inspire panic and cardiac arrest.
Either that, or an angry mob of people'll hog tie the kid up with the controller wires he has hooked up to him.
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Yeah, that's what gamers are known for - their clever pick-up lines. ROTFLMAO
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