Back in the day of retro video-game playing SEGA seemed to be desperate for game developers. This blurb comes from 3-year Sega veteran Mac Senou.

While I was helping them connect multiplayer, I had the following exchange with one of them:

Me: “Like boxing games?”

Tester: “Si.”

Me: “Every play any boxing games before?”

Tester: “No.”

Me: “What were you doing yesterday?”

He turned to another tester and said a few words in Spanish and then did a pantomime that resembled digging, and said: “Ditch.”

Yes, they had hired ditch diggers to test games.

Hey I used to work construction. Could I be a video game tester?

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