About a year ago, PAX sought to ban booth babes (pardon me, “costumed booth representatives”), using a number of tests to determine booth babe-iness (as opposed to garden-variety sexy cosplay). One of them was a lack of familiarity with the product represented.
At E3, Bitmob’s 5HP put that standard to the test with a five-question exam of nine booth representatives, one of whom said she worked for GameStop as recently as last year. These aren’t trick questions. You know all of the answers, and they don’t.
SuperFred
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 8:50 AMMan, I had to watch it twice before realising everyone other than the presenter had heads.
Matt
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 9:05 AMThe main character of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is whatever I make it. If I enter my name as “Zelda” than that’s the name of the protagonist. (It’s why the series is Legend of *Zelda*, since Legend of *Your Name Here* isn’t quite as catchy)
So yeah, I’m calling trick question on that one, although it doesn’t really help any of those girls.
Joe Mama
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 10:58 AMWhat no it’s called Legend of Zelda because there happens to be a princess named Zelda in it =/
Steve0410
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 2:05 PMSigh
Powalen
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 9:24 AMBit unfair. They were hired for their tracts of land, not their fields of knowledge.
Aliasalpha
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 9:33 AMWell the first 2 should have sunk into the swamp, the 3rd one burned down, fell over then sunk into the swamp but the rest should have been fine
Shinkada
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 10:52 AMDepressing.
Awnshegh
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 11:01 AMWent to Antec’s 25th brithday party a while back and they had ‘booth babes’. One of them had a brother who was addicted to Fifa otherwise they really had no idea – but I don’t think anyone on the night was complaining.
miniluv101
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 11:52 AMProps to the girl that answers “Something about John Galt” when probed on Atlas Shrugged. Maybe not familiar with Bioshock, but she obviously read the book.
Transientmind
Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 3:13 PMFor my money, that’d make her smarter than most gamers.
(Not that actually reading anything by Ayn Rand is smart… hopefully it was done as part of an assignment.)
Oxfordcollar
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 1:21 PMI didn’t know two of those, and I’ve played Bioshock 1 and 2, and didn’t know the answer to that one.
Chuloopa
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 1:21 PM*palm pilot*
…wait.. that’s not right…
Steve0410
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 2:04 PMYoung girl needs to earn a few bucks. She’s hired to be a stand-in model at a nerd convention. She’s drilled with videogame questions by a sperglord who demands to know her gaming credentials.
Did anyone honestly think these booth babes actually played?
AerintheABOUTAVERAGE
Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 3:11 AMThe “Bee Bee” one that worked at GameStop was surprising to me. I’ve never met a GameStop clerk that knew that much about video games…
Transientmind
Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 11:52 AMAwh man, don’t hate on the booth babes… That’s really cruel. They have so much crap to put up with as it is (namely: being a booth babe), without having to be made to feel like they’re stupid.
(Sidenote: Interviewer proves it is possible to be a) Gamer, b) Hotter Than a Booth Babe.)