Archive: September 7th, 2003: “Playstation Experience 2003: Tactical Espionage Adventure” / Insert Credit

As soon as I heard Kojima was going to be at ECTS I knew I had to find him and give him my card. Tim tried and… Didn’t quite succeed. Was this my Insert Credit proving ground? Could I GET KOJIMA?

For some reason I don’t remember this as being the second article I ever wrote, but there you go. This must however be the second ECTS I attended, which means I attended my first ECTS with fake credentials, a rites of passage to any regular trade show attendee, particularly when it comes to trade shows of the video game variety*. Of course, this time, even with real credentials I still found myself having to sneak into the Playstation Experience, which was a strange sort of public games show that Sony ran for one year, before it was superseded by Games Stars Live!, and the year after that nothing at all due to the final, merciful death of ECTS.

Despite being such an early article it is one I remember with great fondness – the somewhat silly premise of meeting Kojima (which was all IC contributor Tim Rogers ever talked about at the time, it felt like) and the difficulties we had covering the show just made it all the sweeter to have successfully covered it. It reads a little bit too full of youthful vigor and enthusiasm, but it’s still a fun read, and one I’m proud of.

*Edit, 21st August 2006: I realise now that I didn’t attend my first ECTS with fake credentials. I actually attended with my credentials as a senior tester for Absolute Quality, the video games quality assurance company I was working for at the time. Which means I’ve never attended a trade show with fake credentials. Ah well!

August 17th, 2006 : Archive, Features, Insert Credit