I love that all three blonde mullets include some form of 'listening to
music" as their hobbies. While the Brunette mullets, decidedly
the odd man out here, enjoys watching classic movies. Oh my
hair!
Hi Kirk. Funny that during your Game Counselor days you helped me out with a game, Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode. Just wanted to say thanks!
I was cleaning out around the house the other day and came across some of my old letters from Nintendo GPCs. You were one of the several that helped me through some tough gaming times. Oddly enough, while finding pics for my article (link below), the one of your profile game up and brought me here.
Check out your letter and some others here: http://www.morningtoast.com/index.php/2007/12/the-lost-letters-from-nintendo/
Dude! You just made my year! This is amazing! I don't have many artifacts from that time of my life (an original grey zapper, my GPC jacket, a little Play-Doh Raiden figurine a fan sent me) so your offering up a PDF with my letter to you inside it means a lot to me. Thanks!
I remember Golgo 13 well. At the time, it was the only Nintendo game with a "sex" scene. ;-P Those two silhouettes in the window made for quite the controversy back in '94.
It was also great seeing those names again. I knew every one of those people really well. In fact, Paul Reed played a huge part in getting me the gig I had later writing a game for Playstation (Shadow Madness). I hear he's back at Nintendo now. I need to get in touch with him.
Thanks for the wonderful comment. Not only have you brightened my morning, you've given me something to blog bout. :-D
Oh, and, you're welcome. It was my pleasure. I mean that. Because of Nintendo addicts like you, I made my living for six years playing video games.
I think I was as excited to find those letters as you are! I'm glad they could take you back to what sounds like really good times. They really took me back as well.
A GPC jacket, now that's cool. I'm jealous. I bet that did well at the mall. :)
I always wondered about how the counselors worked. In some ways I thought it was all these people sitting in cubicles with their NESes in front of them playing every day to find the answer to the questions people sent in. That was the cool thought. The less-cool thought was that these letters just went to some call center-esque place where people looked up answered in books or databases.
Just from what you've mentioned it does sound like you all got to just play games to figure stuff out, all to help gamers like me.
And from the letter you sent me, sounds like I drew some sort of Golgo 13 theme on my envelope. Did you guys really keep the art work? In one of the letters it said that fan art got hung up on the walls even if they didn't make it in the magazine.
Sorry for all the questions...but this is pretty damn cool. All through grade school I dreamed of being an employed gamer like that. Now to actually find one that has tales to tell...that's pretty cool.
I hope you can write about your GPC experiences...or maybe if you don't mind, could I send you an e-mail interview to post at my blog? I think it'd be a lot of fun for readers. Think about it. Not sure if you can get to my e-mail address through this comment or not, but feel free to e-mail if you can.
"I always wondered about how the counselors worked.... all these people sitting in cubicles with their NESes in front of them playing every day to find the answer... [or] that these letters just went to some call center-esque place where people looked up answered in books or databases."
A little of both, I'm afraid. I probably clipped those directions from a library of answers, but I can assure you that I did indeed finish Golgo 13! :-) Hell, I may have written the original directions myself. I seem to remember playing that game with graph paper at the ready...
"Did you guys really keep the art work?"
Oh, sure. As you know, some went into the magazine. Others might hang in the cubicles of the GPCs they were written to. Sadly, I kept very little of that stuff.
BUT... I did keep some stuff and I'd like to thank you for taking the time to contact me -- I mean, you made a VOX and everything -- so be sure to read my new post later today, alright?
"...could I send you an e-mail interview to post at my blog?"
Absolutely! You can e-mail me at kirkstarrPANTS@gmail.com, but be sure to remove the PANTS. It's my understanding netbots do not know how to do this.
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I was cleaning out around the house the other day and came across some of my old letters from Nintendo GPCs. You were one of the several that helped me through some tough gaming times. Oddly enough, while finding pics for my article (link below), the one of your profile game up and brought me here.
Check out your letter and some others here:
http://www.morningtoast.com/index.php/2007/12/the-lost-letters-from-nintendo/
Cheers.
~Brian
...just waiting for it to sink in...
Dude! You just made my year! This is amazing! I don't have many artifacts from that time of my life (an original grey zapper, my GPC jacket, a little Play-Doh Raiden figurine a fan sent me) so your offering up a PDF with my letter to you inside it means a lot to me. Thanks!
I remember Golgo 13 well. At the time, it was the only Nintendo game with a "sex" scene. ;-P Those two silhouettes in the window made for quite the controversy back in '94.
It was also great seeing those names again. I knew every one of those people really well. In fact, Paul Reed played a huge part in getting me the gig I had later writing a game for Playstation (Shadow Madness). I hear he's back at Nintendo now. I need to get in touch with him.
Thanks for the wonderful comment. Not only have you brightened my morning, you've given me something to blog bout. :-D
Oh, and, you're welcome. It was my pleasure. I mean that. Because of Nintendo addicts like you, I made my living for six years playing video games.
A GPC jacket, now that's cool. I'm jealous. I bet that did well at the mall. :)
I always wondered about how the counselors worked. In some ways I thought it was all these people sitting in cubicles with their NESes in front of them playing every day to find the answer to the questions people sent in. That was the cool thought. The less-cool thought was that these letters just went to some call center-esque place where people looked up answered in books or databases.
Just from what you've mentioned it does sound like you all got to just play games to figure stuff out, all to help gamers like me.
And from the letter you sent me, sounds like I drew some sort of Golgo 13 theme on my envelope. Did you guys really keep the art work? In one of the letters it said that fan art got hung up on the walls even if they didn't make it in the magazine.
Sorry for all the questions...but this is pretty damn cool. All through grade school I dreamed of being an employed gamer like that. Now to actually find one that has tales to tell...that's pretty cool.
I hope you can write about your GPC experiences...or maybe if you don't mind, could I send you an e-mail interview to post at my blog? I think it'd be a lot of fun for readers. Think about it. Not sure if you can get to my e-mail address through this comment or not, but feel free to e-mail if you can.
A little of both, I'm afraid. I probably clipped those directions from a library of answers, but I can assure you that I did indeed finish Golgo 13! :-) Hell, I may have written the original directions myself. I seem to remember playing that game with graph paper at the ready...
Oh, sure. As you know, some went into the magazine. Others might hang in the cubicles of the GPCs they were written to. Sadly, I kept very little of that stuff.
BUT... I did keep some stuff and I'd like to thank you for taking the time to contact me -- I mean, you made a VOX and everything -- so be sure to read my new post later today, alright?
Absolutely! You can e-mail me at kirkstarrPANTS@gmail.com, but be sure to remove the PANTS. It's my understanding netbots do not know how to do this.
those are some glorious, glorious mullets.