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Meeting The Man Who Met Suda51…

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

… Most likely the closest I’ll ever get to meeting a big name in the games industry, by meeting someone who met someone.

So I was sent down to Cork on the evening of January 21st 2008 for work to attend a training conference and as I know N-E features editor Mark Cullinane is living down there we arranged a small meet up since I was staying over night.

Regular readers of N-E might remember the recent interview with Suda51, which was done by Mark. (Hence the title)

I’ve met Mark a few times now, he’s actually only 1 of 2 N-E staffers that I have met in real life, the first time being back in November 2006 when we attended the Toys For Big Boys Show in Dublin to play the Wii before it was released. My work also has me visit Cork quite a few times so it would just be rude of me not to say hello.

This was the first time however that I got to stay overnight and since I didn’t want to be a loner and go straight to my hotel after the conference I checked if Mark was free and up to give me a little tour of the Cork nightlife. We had a good laugh, of course being the nerds that we are gaming took up the bulk of our conversations, which I think had a couple of Marks mates a bit confused at the end of the night. The first bar we went to (”An BrĂłg”, Irish for “The Shoe”) had a quiz night going on. Coincidently one of Marks college classmates was there with a friend of his that he was showing around so the 4 us teamed up and entered. We were doing alright until the 4th round which was a picture round… we weren’t too versed on our celebrity faces scoring a shameful 3 or 10 in that round. But we had a laugh anyway.

The quizmaster was also in a bit of a mood and had one guy kicked out who was heckling him, which was kinda funny.

After that we went to another bar to meet up with some more of Marks mates who were out on the town, I can’t remember the name of the bar…. nor could Mark remember where it was and he was meant to be my “tour guide”. We were actually walking towards it, then Mark thought we were going the wrong way and we walked round in a big circle. I only realized this when we left and went back to the main street and noticed we were walking down the street Mark thought was the wrong one.

Was a cool night though, had a good laugh and met some interesting new people. Cheers to Mark for “tour”.

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