This was my dream job as a kid. I wanted to work here so badly.

@kampiestarz

9 ай бұрын

I always wanted a job like the lady at the beginning. Never did get my desk job… 😢

@LizLevan

4 ай бұрын

Mine too! I love Nintendo.

@johnbowdle3139

3 ай бұрын

Me too

This footage just made me realize that my job sucks. Now I need to find a way to travel back to 1986 so that I work here!

This should've been a tv sitcom

@miata350

Жыл бұрын

They could still make it if they wanted to

@gemmeliusgrammaticus2509

9 ай бұрын

Haha great comment. You’re totally right!

@jcrodriguez830

Ай бұрын

ill make it one day

I used to call Nintendo for help while I worked for Vons in 1990-1991 during a closing shift.😊

Funny how often Craig got calls about Zelda 2. That game is quite difficult to navigate. It's very impressive how he was just rattling off all the information off the top of his head while also playing Milon's Secret Castle on the side.

@vampirerobot

Жыл бұрын

Very difficult. Great comment!

@purefoldnz3070

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if Craig is still with us

@Mr.Death101

Жыл бұрын

​@@vampirerobot do you have anything about the Sega Genesis channel that used to be around back in those days? A lot of people don't know what I'm talking about but there was a Sega channel and they would have different games each month and you could try new games and it was awesome back then

@Mr.Death101

Жыл бұрын

​@@purefoldnz3070 he died on September 11th 2001

@karlimo4034

Жыл бұрын

Really?

I think I spoke with Craig. Called back in 87 or 88 about getting through early section on Bomberman. Smart guy but not good for $$ for nintendo, he was too smart and answered immediately. The lady probably ended up charging the kid 5x as much while she fumble through the manuals lol

6:00 “Is your son in the fun club”. .. lol that brings back memories - I was in the fun club and got their free magazine/newsletter for years. It was a bummer when Nintendo Power was announced, as they killed off the free newsletter-and I knew my parents would never pay for a subscription.

Wow, the infamous 1-900 number my folks would never let me call. What a time. That job would have just been a dream, pre-internet.

@Dan-di9jd

16 күн бұрын

These kind of call centers have very high turn over rates. You have to meet quotas and keep callers on for a duration of time or you're canned.

Craig is the shit. He’s just rattling off game info while casually playing. We humans are pretty amazing with our abilities to multi task. And the girl in the beginning answering phones was amazing. I couldn’t imagine having to do that all day everyday. But she’s really good at it.

@KDubb-ws9zc

9 ай бұрын

There are a number of interviews with former Nintendo game counselors online and they all said the majority of calls they got were on the same games (Mario, Zelda, Metroid). Every now and then they’d get a call on a more obscure title but those were rare occurrences

casually puts ladies address on national news

@Brandon-bc5um

11 ай бұрын

hey leonhart

@royjonzejr

10 ай бұрын

This is the raw footage they didn't use everything for the news story.

@neilrunyon3391

4 ай бұрын

House is still there but definitely looks rundown. I got curious. LOL.

I did this job back in 1990-1991. It was pretty fun. I did a KZread video last year going over two manuals that survived these last 34 years. They are all hand drawn maps, hints, tips, etc. Pretty neat. This was about a year before the SNES launched, so peak NES time. They had Cafe Mario "lunchroom" that was split into two sections. Smoking and non-smoking. Heck, Todd Bergman was my supervisor. I recently saw him in another video recording. I did that Leo D meme pointing at my TV. Haha

This is weirdly calming

@ChristianAVS

Жыл бұрын

The 90s were ASMR in itself lol

@TheFrenchPug

Жыл бұрын

Because you are taken back mentally to a more peaceful, video games on the cusp, no cell phones, emergence of the home PC, exciting revolution of the technological time warp.

4-6 weeks to receive your first magazine is a lifetime in today's instant gratification world. BTW: I was alive then and owned the first Nintendo Power. It had the clay looking Mario on the cover. I remember wait times like that, slow world back then.

@monolithgeometry3221

Жыл бұрын

Yep, left you to figure stuff out on your own or; cut your losses and move on to the next game

@bb-gc2tx

Жыл бұрын

a better more civil innocent world

Powerline to the pros... I always thought this was a scam, but damnng, Craig WAS a freaking PRO!! Wonder if he's still around.

OMG THAT WAS MY MOTHER THAT WAS MY ADDRESS ! HOLY COW

@vampirerobot

Жыл бұрын

???

@monolithgeometry3221

Жыл бұрын

Yep she definitely said your name, Burt Simmons

Something about this is making me tear up. Idk maybe it was just a simpler time. I'm playing The Legend of Zelda for the first time, and I'm using a guide (as sparingly as I can) and all I can think is how hard and esoteric the game must have felt to people without any kind of outside input. That I can just look up a guide that someone made is so much more convenient but the fact that Nintendo had this kind of support back then just amazes me. Maybe I was just hit with a wave of Nostalgia, maybe there's something about being a kid and playing games and just living in that world where everything felt so fresh and new. The world felt so much smaller then.

@reignman4529

3 ай бұрын

Check out Angry Video Game Nerd’s channel on KZread. He plays almost ALL of the games for the NES and SNES and does hilarious reviews on how much they sucked! Funny stuff if you aren’t offended by excessive swearing 😂

This is incredible footage! Enjoying a little KZread while I play my Switch!

They needed about 4 more people to help that lady answer calls

Probably the only recording of this in human history

@metv2363

Жыл бұрын

Not all all. I have a huge cardboard box filled with VHS tapes of broadcast and raw video from inside Nintendo's American headquarters from this era.

@ChristianAVS

Жыл бұрын

@@metv2363 can you post those in your channel?

@SlothBabyM

3 ай бұрын

pls pls pls share it with us@@metv2363

Or it might be on KZread in 40 years ..is that ok ? 🤨

@Anarchist86ed

Жыл бұрын

You what? 🤨

@sdrape4964

Жыл бұрын

Well played 😂😂

Born in 2002 so before my era but the address the mother gave is like 20 minutes from me. Small small world

The White Sword only takes 5 hearts to pick up, the Magical Sword takes 12

Wow! This is amazing footage

This receptionist is an NPC before NPCs

Beating that shadow Link is quite easy if you have the right controller, especially one with a turbo button or whatever it was called.

Calling this help line was a long distance call for me as a kid, and I had no idea that it was...as I was a little kid with a phone in his room. Man, when that first phone bill came, my dad took the phone out of my room...haha. This was in a world before Google, or any way to look up walkthroughs or guides. It feels like it is a different planet.

Nintendo please hold

Hopefully Sean Watkins family has moved on, that house in Cleveland looks like a crack den

How does this guy memorize off hand every detail of every game?

@metv2363

Жыл бұрын

When we played the game multiple times and got hundreds of calls on it, it was quite easy to remember every detail.

@KDubb-ws9zc

9 ай бұрын

@@metv2363did you get calls on Mario 3?

Gameplay counselor?! Wow, what a job!

If you look up the house for the Nintendo magazine phone call it’s abandoned now 😢

@Rick5150

8 ай бұрын

The blue dilapidated and abandoned house is 3668 if you look from satellite view it shows that the empty lot is 3664. So it was bulldozed actually.

@boglimbonanza7342

8 ай бұрын

@@Rick5150 oh wow. Thanks for the reply !

Somehow I got my hands on this magazine back then, it was a glorious time. No idea they had a help line.😅

I remember me and my brother called a lot of video game hotlines one time. My dad eventually received a phone bill of over 300 bucks. He was quite upset of course.

OMG An actual human answering a phone?!!!

@vampirerobot

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

This is AWESOME!! Idk if I could play a game n give tips for another game at the same time. N remembering every little detail in those games. I mean i kno they have their binders to go by but they still know all kinds without having to reference the binders. Would b a pretty cool job tho really. Thanks for this.

calls cost .95 cents per minute

@metv2363

Жыл бұрын

Not in that era they didn't. Back in the 80s it was a long-distance phone call.

The home that belonged to that address no longer exist :(

I remembered going to Darrell & Debbie’s house to play Nintendo with Timothy (Darrell & Debbie’s son) while enjoying some snacks

Crazy how Nintendo started way before Microsoft & Sony but yet the Playstation 2 is still the best selling console of all time. It'll be turning 23 years old this fall 🙂

OMG poor guy he had to repeat this like 500 times lol I’m pretty sure he was glad when they left😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

this is so cool

Did you get all this footage working at a news station vampire robot ?

Hi! I've got a wizard who's going to the championships in Los Angeles! All I need is a little help. Let's start with... Simon's quest.

@vampirerobot

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@h0lly_blue

2 ай бұрын

how about "SUPER MARIO BROTHERS... *THREEEEEEEEEEEE*"

The days before NET was the NES, great times,be blessed ,saved and all in Jesus shalom

Such is life.

I'm still holding

What year was this recorded?

Awesome video. The front shot of the building makes it look so sad and boring for Nintendo

@monolithgeometry3221

9 ай бұрын

The front door looks like a massive 8 bit cartridge should in fact fit perfectly 😁

What was the price of this service?

What game is the guy with the beard playing while he's talking to people?

@tgalbraith1975

Жыл бұрын

I think it is Kid Icarus that he is playing when the camera zooms in on the screen.

@volvoguy804

7 ай бұрын

Nope! That's Milon's Secret Castle.

@shiruotakuno28

21 күн бұрын

Milon's Secret Castle

Have you guys seen the Nintendo Power episode of the angry video game nerd (AVGN)? You'd like it, if you dont mind bad language.

How do I get better at call of duty modern warfare to remake? Wonder what he would think if he saw that game in this moment lol

✌️✌️✌️✌️

Does anyone know what Nintendo actually paid that Nintendo power guy?

@metv2363

Жыл бұрын

They were paying $5.50 an hour when I started there in the late 80s which would be about 13 bucks an hour when adjusted for inflation.

@gamerscubeixxi2152

Жыл бұрын

@@metv2363 Hard to live on that , I would imagine. Good job if your going to school , or if you don’t really care about money. But answering phones and providing customer service and providing game support, should have paid better. Thank you for the answer, I knew it would take awhile before I found one. Anything from the 80’s is now like trying to find something from the 50’s and 60’s in the early 2000’s.

@metv2363

Жыл бұрын

@@gamerscubeixxi2152, at the time I could rent a house in Seattle for 400.00 a month. That same house rents for about 3000 a month now. But yeah it was a struggle at the time.

@JamesAnderson-zn1gl

5 күн бұрын

I think I made like $6.50/hour or something as a temp through The Seekers temp agency.

I google the address and there is still a home there...

Nintendo please hold