Feature: "camping for miyamoto"

October 05, 2005, 07:10 PM

by tim, via david cabrera -
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Longtime insertcredit.com forum veteran and appreciated contributor David Cabrera was present at the Nintendo World store in New York City, New York on Saturday, September 24th, 2005, to see first-hand and report, selfishly, of what went down when Shigeru Miyamoto showed up to sign autographs and play Nintendogs with the masses. I stole his report and put it into HTML without asking him if it was okay to do so. We will now broadcast that report here, and it will say things like this:

Security wouldn't acknowledge us, so he was taking it upon himself to organize. For the time being, I had to be up front with the racetrack crew. As 9 o'clock drew closer, so did the crowd. The crowd was constantly jockeying for position with itself; one guy would try to get in front of the crowd, and everybody would take a step up right after him to make sure he didn't. At first we were between two parked cars; eventually we ended up in front of them, in the middle of the street. When one of the parked cars left, we took up the space it had occupied. At this point there were somewhere in the area of 80 diehards waiting for the line to start, and we still had an hour or two to go. We found our entertainment the old-fashioned way; a guy put on a show by threatening to throw his DS into traffic.

What he was trying to do was prove a point about Nintendo.

At last, confirmation that I'm not the only person on the internet with a Miyamoto fetish. Ahem!

Truly some scary stuff inside, if you'll click. And if you like this kind of gonzo New Games Journalism-style writing, be sure to check out my (somewhat similar) article about seeing a Nobuo Uematsu and The Black Mages concert at Kanagawa University, back from 2003. I hereby nominate Mr. Cabrera's article the "spiritual sequel" to that piece, so read up on it.