Writer's Block: Close Encounters of the Celebrity Kind
Shigeru Miyamoto. Over 10 years ago, E3 was held in Atlanta, which was close to where I lived in North Carolina, so enterprising youth that I was, I engineered a way to get into gaming's mecca both years. Press pass requirements were rather lax back then. This burdgeoning new media format is what got me in. I know. Crazy. Heck, I went to a lot of trouble to make a fake birth ceritificate to get past the 18 and up rule, but no one cared. Heck, some newspaper's 8 year old kid reviewer was running around, so whatever!
My media pass got me backstage at the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences award show, where Shigeru Miyamoto was the first person inducted into the AIAS Hall of Fame. I got up the courage to approach him with a pen and some paper, but while I meant to say "Domo arigato gozaimasu", all I stammered out was "Do...mo" Fuck! Later, my dad, trying to be helpful, asked Mr. Miyamoto if he took on apprentice game designers, but either his translator wanted to avoid the question or got it wrong, and the answer was about other developers copying Miyamoto's ideas.
My dad even borrowed someone's digital camera (a rare and expensive thing back then!) to take a picture of me with Miyamoto, but unfortunately, that guy lost the picture when moving between computers, so there's no proof of me with Miyamoto, but here's one of the two autographs I got out of him:
EDIT: Oh yeah, and here's me with singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik! (appropriately enough at a singer-songwriter festival) And me with a rainbow. Roy G. Biv is quite the celebrity, you know.
My media pass got me backstage at the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences award show, where Shigeru Miyamoto was the first person inducted into the AIAS Hall of Fame. I got up the courage to approach him with a pen and some paper, but while I meant to say "Domo arigato gozaimasu", all I stammered out was "Do...mo" Fuck! Later, my dad, trying to be helpful, asked Mr. Miyamoto if he took on apprentice game designers, but either his translator wanted to avoid the question or got it wrong, and the answer was about other developers copying Miyamoto's ideas.
My dad even borrowed someone's digital camera (a rare and expensive thing back then!) to take a picture of me with Miyamoto, but unfortunately, that guy lost the picture when moving between computers, so there's no proof of me with Miyamoto, but here's one of the two autographs I got out of him:
EDIT: Oh yeah, and here's me with singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik! (appropriately enough at a singer-songwriter festival) And me with a rainbow. Roy G. Biv is quite the celebrity, you know.