Real Stories From Former Nintendo Game Counselors
To 8-year-olds across America, there was no job more glamorous than that of Nintendo Game Counselor. Getting paid for playing games, being the all-knowing master of them all? Totally radical, right, dudes? …Yeah, as you might expect, the truth was that it was mostly like any other minimum wage call center job. Yet not entirely. There were perks to being a Game Counselor, as three former guys from the crew told the AV Club….. Game Counselors were far from all-knowing, and in the beginning got little help from Nintendo “We didn’t have any more information than the public did, except we had done our own research. It was very, very rare that we would get things that weren’t available to the public. Everybody always thought we had these secrets or cheats or different things like that. The only thing we had—we had all the available information in front of us, or we had some amazing people who would literally hand-draw these maps. Shaun, I think you did a bunch of