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Inside The High-Flying World Of Sony Computer Entertainment America

bobtheduck — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:30:07 MDT

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

bobtheduck

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Akmed — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:31:55 MDT

LOL, PS1 Warhawk.

Akmed

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fuchikoma — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:08:25 MDT

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.)

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strideo — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:01:24 MDT

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

strideo

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ffmusicdj — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:21:10 MDT

lies LIES LIES!!!!!

ffmusicdj

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kablammyman — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:50:16 MDT

Holy shit, jessi harrison is famous! I guess the video does work...She was a producer when we worked together.

kablammyman

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noisewar — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:45:21 MDT

Why's that aisan mullet breastfeeding his kid?

noisewar

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kablammyman — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:05:07 MDT

Holy shit...I KNOW JESSICA HARRISON! She was a producer for one of the games I was working on (I was a programmer)

kidna, random, I know, but I had to tell somebody.

So, I guess she got what se wanted...the video works!

kablammyman

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VakeroRokero — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:41:06 MDT

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

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ultraViolence — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:57:18 MDT

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

ultraViolence

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twesterms 2nd — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:51:16 MDT

Were the credits as long as the video?

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DigitalHero — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:50:52 MDT

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.

DigitalHero

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Seiven — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:17:09 MDT

*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

Seiven

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sisedi — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:11:49 MDT

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

sisedi

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SuperMaxZero — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:06:37 MDT

Hey, Armored Core. Random chance is awesome.

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SorenKier — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:05:27 MDT

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

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futurebiblehero — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:56:36 MDT

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

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Dijkie1337 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:56:28 MDT

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

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amazinglarry — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:40:45 MDT

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

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sbryce — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:22:49 MDT

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

sbryce

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tripur — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:06:53 MDT

@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.

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xBBx — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:59:31 MDT

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

xBBx

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excaliburps — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:48:33 MDT

@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

excaliburps

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zoesch — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:44:37 MDT

@CanaryWundaboy: The wacky caffeine you mean?

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CanaryWundaboy — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:20:21 MDT

@artofwar420:

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

CanaryWundaboy

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artofwar420 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:56:53 MDT

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

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TheShape — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:53:47 MDT

@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...

TheShape

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kovac — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:28:37 MDT

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

kovac

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theboyfrombrasil — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:24:29 MDT

that video was so RAD! SO EXTREME!

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

theboyfrombrasil

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landonkun — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:19:33 MDT

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

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landonkun — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:15:55 MDT

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?

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Scorpi — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:02:35 MDT

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

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DigiMish — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:43:22 MDT

@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.

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topscore1632 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:41:39 MDT

I think it's great that Sony had such an inclusive employment policy even back then. I bet that guy with his siamese twin stuck to his chest would have struggled to get gainful employment anywhere else.

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Deluxe — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:18:20 MDT

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

Deluxe

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CanaryWundaboy — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:15:50 MDT

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

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

CanaryWundaboy

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SAKY — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:03:48 MDT

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

SAKY

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DrXym — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:02:46 MDT

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.

DrXym