Fake Nintendo Job Listing Attracts Real Bounty Hunters

GameDaily.com reported last December that Nintendo received scary, serious applications about a job posting on Monster.com for an Intergalactic Bounty Hunter position. The fake job posting was meant to be part of a viral marketing campaign to generate buzz for Nintendo's Metroid Prime 2 game and they did not expect real bounty hunters to apply. However, they received over 90 serious applications. "The skills and experience these people listed went beyond surprising into the realm of frightening," Beth Llewelyn, Senior Director of Public Relations, NOA told GameDaily.com. Bounty hunting job seekers were not phased by parts of the job description that read, "Candidate must also be comfortable using high-tech (some would say alien) weaponry... Experience operating in subterranean, low-oxygen, zero-gravity or other harsh, unforgiving environments is a definite plus." Many of the job applicants were ex-military causing Nintendo's Senior Director of Public Relations Beth Llewelyn to ask, "Perhaps these ex-military personnel know something about government weapons research that we don't?" Brad King, author of Variety's EEG News blog, recently blogged about this story. Brad King wrote, "This may be the best story I've seen about video games in the 3 1/2 years I've been following the space."