An Interview with a former Game Tester for NEC

[Necromancer]

Q: Do you remember which titles were officially available on launch day? 

[420GOAT]

Q:did you ever get to keep stuff that was for testing only?

Q:did you own a tg-16 at the time, or was only a work task?

[esteban]

Q: Do you remember which titles were officially available on launch day? 

Hahhhahahahhaa.

[Gentlegamer]

Q: Do you remember which titles were officially available on launch day? 

Why didn't I think of this?

[Necromancer]

Hahhhahahahhaa.

That's a serious question, dammit.  If I was going for lulz, I'd ask how many rattle cans of Krylon Gloss Clear it takes per TurboDuo. 

[CPTRAVE]

Do you know or aware of any TG16 games and systems buried in the desert? :-"

[Medic_wheat]

How glosy is your duo?

Did you have a favorite drink/snack while you game tested?

Where they any rules while testing a game?  i.e. No brining in outside friends family into the testing area or  having to complete the entire game prior to releasing it.

What was it in your opinion that l ad to the TG never becoming more popular in the NA?

Where they odd rules when deciding what games where imported to the U.S.?  Like Sega Saturn NA CEO announcing no 2D games 3D is the future.

[elmer]

Here are some ...

Did you test both Western Developer and Japanese Developer games?

Do you still have the TCR/TRC/or-whatever-NEC-called-their-standards document?

Are there any particularly memorable Class A (soft-lock/hard-lock/crash) bugs that you remember?

Do you remember any game getting released with known Class A bugs (it happens more often than you'd like to think)?

Are there any particularly memorable Class B (standards compliance) bugs that you remember?

Did a developer ever really and seriously respond to a Class C (it-would-be-better-if) bug report?

Do you remember any particular games and/or developers as having to go through round-after-round of submissions to get a product passed?

Do you have any memories of particular late nights trying to get a developer's game approved before a production deadline (usually for a Thanksgiving release here in the US)?

When "the boss" bought the testers dinner for those late nights ... was it ever anything more interesting than the industry-standard pizza?

Any good Christmas Party memories?

[henrycsc]

Wow, again great questions guys.  I'm trying to alter/edit these questions into a better flowing Q&A session.  I'm going to give him a complete list of released and announced titles and as for him to comment on any he has memory of.

So far, this Question list is getting huge, so I may need to pare down more to keep it manageable for him, or make the closing date for new questions sooner. 

[ParanoiaDragon]

Wow, again great questions guys.  I'm trying to alter/edit these questions into a better flowing Q&A session.  I'm going to give him a complete list of released and announced titles and as for him to comment on any he has memory of.

So far, this Question list is getting huge, so I may need to pare down more to keep it manageable for him, or make the closing date for new questions sooner. 

Don't forget especially about Riftwar Saga in the announced section.  That one kills me.  The 2 pics we got made it look like it might be a decent hack n' slash.

[henrycsc]

OK, I added it, but again, since it's later, we shall see.

[NightWolve]

Hahhhahahahhaa.

That's a serious question, dammit.  If I was going for lulz, I'd ask how many rattle cans of Krylon Gloss Clear it takes per TurboDuo. 

[geise]

Henry!  First, thank you for setting this interview up.  Second, do you know how much knowledge this person will really have to answer these questions?  I know people that have game tested before and they knew very little of subjects being asked in this thread.  Still though, I am excited to see what insight he can give us.  These are some fun questions.  Thanks again for doing this.

[geise]

I must be blind.  How do you know they worked from home or are you just making assumptions like you always do? O:)

[Sadler]

The amount of awesome stuff I find out about on here still blows my mind. Never saw that interview before, awesome stuff. I will now troll Josh's youtube.