Tokyo Game Show?

[RetroYoungen]

Didn't know if I should post it in here or in the Import section, but I would guess here is slightly better... anyone planning to make the trek to the Tokyo Game Show this year? I'm crossing the Pacific, just wanted to see if anyone else is going so that - what the hell - maybe we could say hey on the show floor. :D

[djbeatmongrel]

Is Hardgay Razor Ramon making a special appearance or something LOL . I kid. I wont be going but please take many pictures, be the inverse of the stereotypical Asian tourist.

[smork]

I work 5 minutes walk from there and live about 15 minutes away, so yeah, I'll be there!

Actually, I wouldn't mind having a little TGS party - either meet up for some beers or go hit an arcade or something. But if there are DP members going we should definitely meet up!

[Coldguy]

I would go except for the whole money thing...smork better take plenty of pictures for us to see japan retro goodness.

[RetroYoungen]

I work 5 minutes walk from there and live about 15 minutes away, so yeah, I'll be there!

Actually, I wouldn't mind having a little TGS party - either meet up for some beers or go hit an arcade or something. But if there are DP members going we should definitely meet up!

I'll make sure to pack my DP and CGE shirts then, I dunno if that would make much of a difference in the crowds... but what the hell, can't hurt!

Have you been to TGS before? Any tips or advice on the show? o_O

[Mimi Nakamura]

I will be working there for the full four days.

My agent still hasn't got the full details on exactly who I will be working for. I'm quite lazy, so I'm not sure whether I will be able to wear a fake smile for four days!

I've never attended the Tokyo Game Show before, although I can picture what it's like.

Well, if I see any DP t-shirt wearing people, I will say hello.
However, if you want to take a photo, you'll have to repay me with a drink after the show! :cheers:

[Mimi Nakamura]

So.....

Who went?

[otaku]

yes where are the photos! I've wanted to go so bad and though I had the money this year was unable to go still! :( well maybe next time

[Mimi Nakamura]

I was working for Capcom for the full four days, but I don't think I met any DP members. :(

[k8track]

@RetroYoungen: So did you go? How was it? Share your adventures!


I was working for Capcom for the full four days

In what capacity? Were you doing some kind of voice-over work or announcing or something?

I would like to check the show someday (hopefully I'll be living in Japan teaching ESL), but I'm not really interested in much of the modern stuff... do they have an older, "classic" part of the show? (I try to avoid overuse of the word "retro".) And I'm pretty sure my fiancée wouldn't be interested in it, so I'd really have to convince her.

I've found pics of the show online, but I'd love to see the personal and more meaningful pictures that attending DPers have taken.

[Mimi Nakamura]

@RetroYoungen: So did you go? How was it? Share your adventures!



In what capacity? Were you doing some kind of voice-over work or announcing or something?

I would like to check the show someday (hopefully I'll be living in Japan teaching ESL), but I'm not really interested in much of the modern stuff... do they have an older, "classic" part of the show? (I try to avoid overuse of the word "retro".) And I'm pretty sure my fiancée wouldn't be interested in it, so I'd really have to convince her.

I've found pics of the show online, but I'd love to see the personal and more meaningful pictures that attending DPers have taken.

Nothing as interesting as announcing! All I did was hand out a few Capcom DVDs and pose for photos - just a basic Game Show Girl. It was much harder work than I thought it would be and Capcom didn't even let me keep the orange two piece that I had to wear! My friend doing the same job for SNK Playmore, and another for Tecmo got to keep their uniforms, but they are not really interested in games. I love games, but I couldn't keep mine. :-(

At least I got to play Biohazard 5 though. :-)

[smork]

How lame is this -- I didn't go. I was 5 minutes away from there on Saturday, and i wasn't doing anything special, I just didn't feel like fighting the crowds.

Plus, I had this mini-epiphany -- I spend 95% of my gaming and collecting energies on arcade and retro stuff, so I don't really care about the newer stuff anymore. Weird, eh?

Now if it was a CGE sort of event (does Japan even have collector's shows and trade fests, anyway?) I'd have been waiting anxiously....

Is it just me or was Tokyo particularly full of foreigners this weekend? It seemed every time I hopped on a train there were at least a few foreigners, where normally outside my mirror and my office I only normally see 1-2 a day. I guess between the TGS and the F1 race there was a massive influx of foreigners this weekend...

[k8track]

Nothing as interesting as announcing! All I did was hand out a few Capcom DVDs and pose for photos - just a basic Game Show Girl. It was much harder work than I thought it would be and Capcom didn't even let me keep the orange two piece that I had to wear! My friend doing the same job for SNK Playmore, and another for Tecmo got to keep their uniforms, but they are not really interested in games. I love games, but I couldn't keep mine. :-(

At least I got to play Biohazard 5 though. :-)
I imagine that would be hard work--having to stand there all day would be quite fatiguing (kind of similar where you think that the person holding the stop/slow sign at a construction site on a highway has an easy job, but it's a lot harder than you'd think), having to keep up a smile the whole time. I couldn't do it, that's for sure. I'd say you're probably unique in that you're one of the few people with that job who truly likes gaming, whereas the other girls are just doing it as a paying gig. It's a bummer that they wouldn't let you keep the outfit.

I've been looking at some photos of the show on the play-asia website at http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-17-71-2-74-1i8-49-zh.html. Were you captured in any of them?

[k8track]

How lame is this -- I didn't go. I was 5 minutes away from there on Saturday, and i wasn't doing anything special, I just didn't feel like fighting the crowds.

Plus, I had this mini-epiphany -- I spend 95% of my gaming and collecting energies on arcade and retro stuff, so I don't really care about the newer stuff anymore. Weird, eh?

Now if it was a CGE sort of event (does Japan even have collector's shows and trade fests, anyway?) I'd have been waiting anxiously....

Is it just me or was Tokyo particularly full of foreigners this weekend? It seemed every time I hopped on a train there were at least a few foreigners, where normally outside my mirror and my office I only normally see 1-2 a day. I guess between the TGS and the F1 race there was a massive influx of foreigners this weekend...
Take any pics? I'd love to see some of your photos... did you get one of you and RetroYoungen standing together?

[smork]

Take any pics? I'd love to see some of your photos... did you get one of you and RetroYoungen standing together?

Well, as I said I didn't actually go. I've got plenty of Tokyo pics in general as it's home :)

I wish I had met RetroYoungen -- as a matter of fact if you read this RY and you are still in Tokyo PM me, and maybe we can meet!

(actually, I've never met anyone on this board...)

[RetroYoungen]

Gomen, everybody... I didn't have much in the way of Internet access for the few days I was in Japan! I just got back from the airport and made food, haven't uploaded all of my pics yet (over 250... a new record for me!), and believe me, I'll be linking to a blog with all of the entries I've already written during my time and the afterthoughts/specifics of my trip. Stay tuned, I've got today and tomorrow off so I'll be posting after I get food in my belly and sleep in my bed!

And I was wearing my DP shirt that day, just to make sure anybody who could see my shirt would know it was me... sadly I didn't meet or see anybody (except seeing Morgan Webb, which was sorta cool. NO chance of a meet or handshake though. lol). :(

[k8track]

Well, as I said I didn't actually go.
Argh, sorry! Usually I'm a much better reader than that. How did I not see that? I'll just chalk it up to a stressful day (my students are driving me crazy--I'll make them the scapegoats) making my eyes blurry and glazed.

[MonoTekETeA]

Lol, I can't stop laughing. Here is a picture of a girl who just had no idea the picture was going to be taken. Upper left.

http://image3.play-asia.com/gallery/large/GA.00079.0109.jpg

Edit: Ugh, I am coughing now.

Double Edit: I didn't laugh for 4 minutes straight, just kept going back to the picture. :*)

[Mimi Nakamura]

I imagine that would be hard work--having to stand there all day would be quite fatiguing (kind of similar where you think that the person holding the stop/slow sign at a construction site on a highway has an easy job, but it's a lot harder than you'd think), having to keep up a smile the whole time. I couldn't do it, that's for sure. I'd say you're probably unique in that you're one of the few people with that job who truly likes gaming, whereas the other girls are just doing it as a paying gig. It's a bummer that they wouldn't let you keep the outfit.

I've been looking at some photos of the show on the play-asia website at http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-17-71-2-74-1i8-49-zh.html. Were you captured in any of them?

No, I'm not in any of those photos. I'm sure that there must be at least one photo of me on the internet though, I remember having to pose for an awful lot of photos.

[Mimi Nakamura]

I've just spent the last hour searching for what photos of me made their way onto the internet - mostly because I was worried!

Anyway, I found a couple of OK ones:


Here's another, I'm the fourth from the left:

[k8track]

I've just spent the last hour searching for what photos of me made their way onto the internet - mostly because I was worried!

Anyway, I found a couple of OK ones:

Oh my gosh... that outfit looks remarkably similar to the one that I wore as "Cheddar Cheese Boy" at the Fulton County Dairy Festival! Well, OK... it really wasn't so much a Dairy Festival, but more of a junior high library... I think I may have been arrested... it's hard to remember through the PCP fog.

Do you work those kinds of gigs on a regular basis in addition to your voice acting work? When I lived in Korea, they would always have a pair of dancing girls (dressed in much the same way) with loud music blaring to promote the opening of a new store, which was like once a week. They would stand outside and do their thing all day, even in the coldest of weather! They were real troopers. Imagine the boost to our economy here in the U.S. if businesses adopted those kinds of tactics. Maybe all our financial system needs is a healthy dose of go-go dancing.

[RetroYoungen]

I've just spent the last hour searching for what photos of me made their way onto the internet - mostly because I was worried!

Anyway, I found a couple of OK ones:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3247/2936992246_b838c12c63.jpg?v=0

Here's another, I'm the fourth from the left:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3194/2937010150_865e53e654.jpg?v=0

Were you also handing out fliers or whatever it was Capcom was offering? I went through your area a few times I think, but with so much going on I was bouncing around a lot to see everything...

Wish I could've met you and said hello, would have been really really cool! BTW, did you get to keep the belt!? ME WANT!

[Mimi Nakamura]

Were you also handing out fliers or whatever it was Capcom was offering? I went through your area a few times I think, but with so much going on I was bouncing around a lot to see everything...

Wish I could've met you and said hello, would have been really really cool! BTW, did you get to keep the belt!? ME WANT!

Yes, I was handing out Capcom DVDs, Monster Hunter promotional leaflets, Capcom 25th Anniversary Magazines,etc. I'm not sure if I saw you, if I had noticed that you were wearing a DP T-shirt I would definitely have said 'hello'!

No, I didn't get to keep the belt :bawling:

[Mimi Nakamura]

Oh my gosh... that outfit looks remarkably similar to the one that I wore as "Cheddar Cheese Boy" at the Fulton County Dairy Festival! Well, OK... it really wasn't so much a Dairy Festival, but more of a junior high library... I think I may have been arrested... it's hard to remember through the PCP fog.

Do you work those kinds of gigs on a regular basis in addition to your voice acting work? When I lived in Korea, they would always have a pair of dancing girls (dressed in much the same way) with loud music blaring to promote the opening of a new store, which was like once a week. They would stand outside and do their thing all day, even in the coldest of weather! They were real troopers. Imagine the boost to our economy here in the U.S. if businesses adopted those kinds of tactics. Maybe all our financial system needs is a healthy dose of go-go dancing.

Haha, no I'm not usually doing that kind of work. I have done an exhibition before, but I think TGS was my last one. I don't do much on the voice acting side anymore, whilst it is good fun, my agency cannot get me the required amount of work to make a decent living.
I'm concentrating more on modelling now - whilst it isn't fulfilling for me, my agency can get me plenty of work, and it is pretty easy stuff. I'm trying to make as much money as possible now, looks only last so long, and I've realised that my dreams of a fulfilling career that pays well are immature, so it's time to maximise!

[smork]

I'm not shy or anything (kind of the opposite!) but I can't imagine posing for pics with people and being able to google pics of me on the net. Kudos, Mimi - that's gotta be a pretty stressful gig.

Shame you couldn't keep the outfit; that'd be one hell of a cool piece of memorabilia.

[Mimi Nakamura]

I'm not shy or anything (kind of the opposite!) but I can't imagine posing for pics with people and being able to google pics of me on the net. Kudos, Mimi - that's gotta be a pretty stressful gig.

Shame you couldn't keep the outfit; that'd be one hell of a cool piece of memorabilia.

It's no big deal. I've been in TV adverts before, the last big one I did was a McDonalds TV advert that seemed to be on rotation forever! I'd always get "Have I met you before?" around the time of that one.