N-Philes

After drifting in and out of consciousness during my General Engineering and Introduction to Logic classes this morning, I wandered back to my dorm to discover that today was the day that the TechKnow Overload Tour was gracing Clemson University's campus with its presence. I remembered reading something about Nintendo being on this tour (I was still mostly out of it) and decided to go explore. Nintendo was indeed present with two Street Team vehicles packed with LCD screens and HDTVs displaying their latest wares. I grabbed some swag, went to my room to refresh and grab my voice recorder, and went back downstairs with one goal in mind: Interview the Nintendo Street Team, and interview I did. About 20 minutes and a game of Super Smash Brothers: Melee later, my mission was accomplished. You'll be happy to know that Pikachu, representative of N-Philes, managed to survive long enough to see the demise of the Nintendo's Street Team's Captain Falcon. Some of the aforementioned swag may make an appearance at my farewell trivia, should I ever decide to actually write it. But I digress. Without further ado, I present to you an N-Philes exclusive: Matthew Interviews the Nintendo Street Team.

Matthew Warren: Hey, I work for a Nintendo fansite, n-philes.com, and I was wondering if I could ask you guys a few questions and take some pictures.
Nintendo Street Team: Nintendo fansite! (To other Street Team member) Can we do an interview?
[phone call]
NST: Yeah, we can do an interview. It's cool.
MW: OK, great.
NST: You guys have a fansite?
MW: Yeah, it's, uh, N-Philes.com. I mean, we're nothing big; I just thought I'd come out and, you know, get you guys' experiences with the Street Team. See how you're enjoying it.
NST: It's a blast.
MW: Is it really?
NST: Yeah, we have a good time. Like, uh, what's all on the site and stuff?
MW: [mumbles] We do reviews and, ah, previews, like I'm one of the weirder staffers; I do some of the more bizarre articles, like the other day I did an article on how many GameCube games I could fit in my mouth.
NST: [laughs] How many GameCube games can you fit in your mouth?
MW: I got 17 in there.
NST: [laughs] That's great.
MW: But we do a bunch of reviews, we report news; we were really busy during E3 and right now we're prepping for the DS launch.
NST: That's cool.
MW: Have you guys gotten a chance to play the DS at all?
NST: [shakes head]
MW: No? I imagine they keep that under pretty tight wraps.
NST: Well, we work for a marketing company, not directly for Nintendo.
MW: Do you guys get to interact with Nintendo at all or do you go straight to the marketing people?
NST: Well, I got with a couple reps to do a Donkey Konga theater out in Chicago; we had it projected on a huge wall.
MW: Oh, cool. Are you guys excited about the DS and Revolution and all that?
NST: Yeah, we're pretty psyched.
MW: All right, great. Thank you both for your time.
NST: Yeah, no problem.