Charlie
05-05-2003, 03:07 AM
My mom is on a mission to get a job writing for some... any... video game magizine. She's mucho-grande pissed off at the mags she gets in the mail (EGM, Nintendo Power, Game Informer, and Tips & Tricks).
On EGM: "They wouldn't know a good game if it bit them in the ass."
On Nintendo Power "Only reason I still get them is because everytime I want a Player's Guide for a Cube or GBA game, I tack on another year to my subscription (lol, at this point I think it's set to expire sometime in the 24th Centry). If they ever gave a 1st party game a good review, I think I would vomit blood in suprise." (And yes, she knows the NP is a Nintendo propaganda mag).
On Game Informer: "Only reason I get it is because it came with the Gamestop card."
On Tips & Tricks: "I don't think the columns they have are big enough, and what's the point in dedicating an entire two page spread every month to a game that is already almost a year old?" (In reference to Animal Crossing.)
I think she once applied to work at Nintendo when we all moved up to Washington, but she never heard back from them. She's pretty dang good at games although she's decidedly old school in her tastes (She's 55 years old though, unlike most of the us here she's lived through the entire video game era). She's not a big fan of 3-D so she would get along just fine with most of the people here. Although she did enjoy Wind Waker and Metroid Prime believe it or not. But now she wants to write reviews for a gaming mag (despite no professional or even amature writing experience). So... anyone have advice for her?
On EGM: "They wouldn't know a good game if it bit them in the ass."
On Nintendo Power "Only reason I still get them is because everytime I want a Player's Guide for a Cube or GBA game, I tack on another year to my subscription (lol, at this point I think it's set to expire sometime in the 24th Centry). If they ever gave a 1st party game a good review, I think I would vomit blood in suprise." (And yes, she knows the NP is a Nintendo propaganda mag).
On Game Informer: "Only reason I get it is because it came with the Gamestop card."
On Tips & Tricks: "I don't think the columns they have are big enough, and what's the point in dedicating an entire two page spread every month to a game that is already almost a year old?" (In reference to Animal Crossing.)
I think she once applied to work at Nintendo when we all moved up to Washington, but she never heard back from them. She's pretty dang good at games although she's decidedly old school in her tastes (She's 55 years old though, unlike most of the us here she's lived through the entire video game era). She's not a big fan of 3-D so she would get along just fine with most of the people here. Although she did enjoy Wind Waker and Metroid Prime believe it or not. But now she wants to write reviews for a gaming mag (despite no professional or even amature writing experience). So... anyone have advice for her?