Archive: September 23th, 2003: “London Game Week 2003: ECTS” / Insert Credit
Actually, Real journalists not only don’t wear t-shirts with their credentials pasted all over them (Dude, I am so legitimate. Would I have this T-shirt if I wasn’t?), they actually don’t appear to do any work at all. They stand at the ECTS bar all day from… Ooh, 10am, drinking solidly, and consider creating a feature on people cheating on their spouse at ECTS.
Real journalists don’t queue for a cubicle when there are plenty of urinals empty and waiting. Actually, I don’t know if that’s true, but GDCE is the only place on earth I’ve observed a line of 10 guys waiting on 2 cubicles while 8 urinals are empty. If they were all doing coke, fair enough, but I doubt it. (note: We here at Insert Credit in no way advocate the using of drugs. We barely tolerated Tim drinking Dr Pepper.)
There are rules as to how you act as a journalist at a games expo. I have learned. At least I wasn’t wearing a dorky t-shirt. “
Crikey, only on my forth article and I’m already lecturing people on what a “real journalist” is. You can see I had ambition (and most of what I say is true, anyway.) The journalist that spent all day, every day at the ECTS bar was, in fact, Ste Curran, admittedly however he was actually writing an article about it.
This article is notable for being my first interview (with Tom Sekine, of Capcom USA) which I performed without a dictaphone or an ability to do shorthand. I’ve learned my lesson since then, though (I own a dictaphone now.) It’s also notable for being from a time when people still thought the N-Gage could succeed. We’ve all learned our lesson since then.