Two words:

ASIAN MULLET!!!

Tiger woods?!!!

I learned that it is the greatest job in the world!.

@archibaldleech: Indeed

I wonder if the contact information is still valid.

so, that dude worked 72 hours a week doing the shit work (testing) and all he got was some lame ass playstation game?!

man... i want a job like that...

I don't know why the hell anyone would do QA testing whether it was testing video games or warehouse stock control systems. Most of the time you are methodically working through enormous checklists or raising bugs. Over and over again.

Any one see the "Rise of the Video Game" special on TV last night?

So....much....dork....

Seriously though, FF7 and Crash Bandicoot 2 in the same video = win.

I'm ashamed to have lived through the nineties. The fashion, the hair, the nerds, oh the humanity.

@SAKY: That premiered on the discovery channel at the end of last year. Awesome show, all together there's 4 episodes, all worth watching. Very current information and gameplay footage.

"You have to die at every location..." Yeah, who DIDN'T play Crash Bandicoot just to do that

I laughed when I saw that guy's baby just kinda sleeping on his chest/stomach while he was talking. That kid was real, right?

I commented before seeing the end credits. Now I know it is a real child.

that video was so RAD! SO EXTREME!

"it gets the chicks" HAAAAHAHAHA im sure it did buddy.. im sure it did...

The 90s wasnt nearly as bad as the 80s imho

@Deluxe:

In the 90s, we were laughing about the 80s and how ridicule we all looked. In the 00s, we're doing the same for the 90s and in the 10s we'll probably be doing the same for the 00s, it never ends...

That's so weird, that the 90's are slowly becoming as nostalgic and weird as the 80's. I mean 1998 was ONLY 2 years ago right?

Time flies.

@artofwar420:

Try a full decade ago.
Lay off the caffeine bro.

@CanaryWundaboy: The wacky caffeine you mean?

@Luke Plunktett

And by "coke" parties you mean coke the soda right?! I mean there's no way these bastions of goodwill and humanity ever attend or do "coke" parties. Right? Right?!

You're shattering the good,untarnished image of the games industry Luke!
=D

Yea...that's exactly what I want... somebody who was hired through a temp service to make my games.

@xBBx: hey man, that's how it works. So many people get into the busyness that don't really deserve to simply because they started at the very bottom and did loads of grunt work and got their foot in the door. My friend also took a mail room clerk job at THQ just so he can get inside the building. It's so difficult for an artist to get into the industry. You either have to be the best of the best or just simple start at the very low.

Thanks a lot kotaku, now I want a job there!

@CanaryWundaboy: I'm glad we have that clarification...

I totally spotted a shot of Final Fantasy VII in that video.

@artofwar420: I don't know about that, but this new Baha Men album is awesome. It's totally better than that OMC bullshit.

How can there be so many credits for such a short video piece? Is there more to the video that wasn't shown?

Hey, Armored Core. Random chance is awesome.

I lol'd at the passed out baby, hard core gamer in the making. I bet he reads kotaku now.

*tear

I miss the old days...gaming was still niche when it was PS1

one day, one day...I am destined to be in this industry

What a nostalgic video. It brings me back to the days when I worked part-time at Wendy's and my entire check went to buying Tekken 2 and Final Fantasy VII.

Were the credits as long as the video?

cool vid.
it's funny how 80% of industry players leave the biz after less than 10 yrs.

So that's "the tip lady"?? I always felt she looked like Mira Sorvino in lingerie...

Why's that aisan mullet breastfeeding his kid?

lies LIES LIES!!!!!

Gotta love the groovin' music. It sounds so . . . so um . . . public domain. XD

It would probably drive me nuts testing games, but I do have a knack for walking right into glitches.

I still remember the first time a friend showed me Tenchu 1. He was in a cave near the start, and passed me the controller, I turned sideways, threw the grappling hook, and got pulled through a wall, stick eternally in flying position! That was a new record. About three seconds to find a gamestopping bug that we were never able to reproduce again.

It still amazes me that I can do things like grab a random PSP game (not Wipeout Pure!) and put the PSP to sleep at a load screen, and almost every time it will come out as if nothing had happened. I like to test boundaries and see what I can abuse in games. (I'm often killed by "oh no, the user is escaping the playpen!" fields in games where you sneak past a supposedly perfect forcefield to keep you in the proper area, and die because you're standing across "THE LINE" in an otherwise harmless area. Burnout Paradise is great for finding these.)

LOL, PS1 Warhawk.

Video game QA: Proving that anything done for work can be boring.