Nintendo is a company full of secrets. Working for them must be pretty cool, right?
JC Rodrigo started working for Nintendo of America’s Treehouse division in February. That division handles the translation and writing of Nintendo’s games, among other things. Rodrigo is tasked with doing a variety of things he could tell me very little about.
When we talked about “Wii Music” at Nintendo’s fall summit last week, I wanted to know what his first day at Nintendo was like. It must be like going behind the curtain of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory!
“Man, they threw me in the deep end!,” laughed Rodrigo.
Asked to explain what that meant, Rodrigo had to be cryptic. Was it a mystery game he needed to translate? Or a strange task tied to some secret Nintendo procedure?
“Umm, I’ll say it was exciting but I can’t tell you what it was,” he said. “Because I looked around and basically, I said to my boss, ‘Really? Are you serious?!’ and he said ‘Yeah, I’m not kidding.’ So, I’m like ‘oooookay!’ [laughs] So I started doing…something. Something exciting and something unexpected — something completely unexpected.”
Whatever Rodrigo is working on, it hasn’t been announced yet, but when he told me the story, his enthusiasm was genuine. It must be pretty exciting.
I wonder what it is?
http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/10/07/nintendo-employee-describes-his-first-day/
What the hell could it be?
Maybe... A MOTHER TRANSLATION!?
