MTV wants Joystiqers who'll dish on camera
by Christopher Grant 
{ May 25th 2006 at 10:45AM }
We received a request from a producer working with MTV titled, simply, "MTV Gamer show needs your stories!" His request: "MTV is doing a video game project and wants to hear your most memorable gaming moment. From victory to heartbreak or anything related to your passion, this is your chance to tell your ultimate trial and tribulation. Please email us a brief paragraph describing your most vivid gaming related experience. If chosen, you'll get a chance to tell it to our cameras! Please respond to mtvvideogame[AT]gmail.com. We are shooting on June 3rd and will get back to you immediately. *all submissions become property of MTV Networks, please respond only if you are available on June 3rd and can appear at MTV in Santa Monica, California."
While it's no secret we're fans of some of MTV News' segments (like that designers roundtable), and even that Gears of War special wasn't that bad (except the forced Lamborghini scene ... ugh), we make no claims regarding the caliber of this production; however, we can authenticate the veracity of it, despite the dubious Gmail account.
Got a hankering for television and a tendency to wax poetic about World 1-1? Drop 'em a line and tell em, "
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Rob @ May 25th 2006 10:50AM
Heres a comment from this gamer... "PLAY SOME GOD DAMN MUSIC"
Drew @ May 25th 2006 10:56AM
Who the hell wants to hear gamers wax poetic about the time they "pwned" some little kid?
Heartbreak? Like when a memory card gets corrupted? Great television.
Kazi @ May 25th 2006 11:02AM
you should probably bold this part: "please respond only if you are available on June 3rd and can appear at MTV in Santa Monica, California."
ResidentGamer.com @ May 25th 2006 11:11AM
HEy they stole that idea from us!!! Bastards!
Sense @ May 25th 2006 11:13AM
Ooh, yeah. I didn't see that Santa Monica bit. Ah, well, they probably wouldn't pick me anyway. Look here to see my submission:
http://www.8bitninja.com/2006/05/25/what-i-did-for-zelda/
Benny @ May 25th 2006 11:17AM
Anyone else think it's wierd that MTV use a gmail address?
Wire @ May 25th 2006 11:21AM
In LatinAmerica, MTV has a videogames show named Joystiqueros. It's a weekly show relatively new.
www.mtvla.com
Mattster @ May 25th 2006 11:23AM
I love the Pee-Wee Herman's Big Adventure line drop. I hate that many readers of this site are too young to recognize it.
Eric @ May 25th 2006 11:24AM
MTV has finally realized they've lost their ratings to video games and internet...their ploy to bring themselves back won't work on this guy...FMTV!
I love how MTV is now saying "hey guys, we're cool too, honest." instead of saying "this is what cool is losers"
TV Guy @ May 25th 2006 11:24AM
No, it's not really that weird that they're using a gmail address -- when TV productions need an email address for a one-off project like this, they usually just scoop up a free one. It can take the IT department days to set up a real one, and deadlines make the idea of waiting for that laughable.
Justin @ May 25th 2006 11:30AM
I totally got the Large Marge refrence... lol I love that movie and I'm only 23... does that mean I'm old?
"I say we let him go... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
32_Footsteps @ May 25th 2006 11:40AM
Great, now I have "Tequila" stuck in my head, guys.
Yeah, the fact that you'd have to be in Santa Monica does really restrict that. But I have a few good stories.
Though given the fact that the people behind this are likely the same people behind the Spike TV VGAs (MTV and Spike share the same parent company), I wouldn't touch this with a ten foot pole.
Master 0f None @ May 25th 2006 11:44AM
If Joystiqers end up doing it, you've got to be pimped out in your Joystiq t-shirt.
Leif Aesoph @ May 25th 2006 11:46AM
Hey Joystiq, how much did MTV give you to post this one? You're a bunch of pathetic sell outs even if you didn't get any money.
Sense @ May 25th 2006 11:49AM
Yeah, I'm 23 too and I definitely got the Large Marge reference. Who doesn't like Pee-Wee?
Wait a minute...Pee-Wee...Wii...Pee-Wii...
This means something...
riffgod @ May 25th 2006 11:51AM
I'm ashamed to say that I read this blog. Mtv is one of the biggest factors that ruined popular music. Not to mention that their shows have nothing to do with music. They may as well call themselves Rolling Stone tv. Because just as they started out as music media, they've sold out to become pop culture media.
You want my comment as a gamer. Here it is. Music has always had a part in gaming and by ruining music you're ruining games. Please stop. Change your name to US Weekly tv or something more appropriate. Mtv is a joke, it something that people who watch should be ashamed to watch and I'm sure most of them are.
Joystic, do you want a topic, how about this webpoll? Do gamers watch mtv?
SpArDa @ May 25th 2006 12:25PM
Yea i Fail class becuase of games and I struggle to be one of the best gamers in the world. But now i struggle in school cuz low grades and cuts lots of class I faild myself. to graduate and to go to college. see my life struggle i play games all the time me owning people on Halo and Quake 3 arena.
Cloud Strife @ May 25th 2006 12:43PM
When Aerith died, it was the saddest moment of my life which at that point I knew, I had to get a real girlfriend.
If stories goes on MTV for their profit we need a little of our own *coughs and opens palm*
AJ @ May 25th 2006 12:51PM
This will either help or hurt the gaming community.
Two possible scenarios:
1) Fat-30-year-old-living-in-parents-basement Gamer drools on about how he got some super stupid strong weapon in WOW and killed a boss by himself with only 10 health.
2) Stupid-Jock-Wannabe Gamer talks about how he scored 13 touchdowns on some dude online in Madden 06 the day it came out. Why? Because it's the same game as last years Madden.
On second thought, this will do nothing for real gamers.
Here's what you won't see:
Me and my buddy played Baulders Gate: Dark Alliance for 8 hours straight... then that damn ice dragon killed us like 10 times in a row...but it was fun... I like that game.
The3rdNuisance @ May 25th 2006 1:09PM
MTV, the scourge of the Earth, and the most hipocritical channel on Earth. They need to play more music, and more differentiated music... This reminds me of the time I got my 20th blister playing Killer Instinct Gold for the N64 though... I'd get a 360 just for that game if they have it on XBL...
GlitchCog @ May 25th 2006 1:28PM
MTV is a terrible channel. I really hope they change their mind and stay out of video game related programming.
1up_clock @ May 25th 2006 1:42PM
Plus infinity for Large Marge and her creepy, unblinking stopmotion face.
capiton @ May 25th 2006 1:46PM
mtv can lick my left nut
corey @ May 25th 2006 2:09PM
and my right one!!!
Mattster @ May 25th 2006 2:14PM
Yeah i'm 23 myself, 1983 must have been the perfect year.
The ZeroCorpse @ May 25th 2006 3:55PM
Yeah... I can just see how they package this. They'll make the gamers look like total losers, throw in some music like Beck's "Loser", and throw images of typical, vapid MTV preppie hotties in there to make the gamers look like losers to the MTV audience.
MTV became a waste of time in 1990. Any gamer who does this might as well march on over to SPIKE TV and volunteer to be in their bogus VideoGame Awards show, too.
TaiZ @ May 26th 2006 12:50AM
MTV is gonna play some shitty emo band in the background of anything they put on air from this, I just know it. I can see it now "And then Sephiroth comes down from above, pulls out his sword, and stabs Aries in the back. When it hit me that she had died, I lost it. I just couldn't stop crying..." and in the background you'll hear "CRAAAAWLING IN MY SKIIIIN! THESE WOUNDS THEY WILL NOT HEEEEAAAAAAAAL!". I'll laugh just because I knew it would happen.
If they really consider people that play souly Madden gamers, then I will feel pitty on them. MTV went down the crapper when they started to stand for what is "cool" like all the "Punk" bands people listen to now. Now they are starting to take the one thing I held sacred, gaming, and making it "cool". I swear if I see one more preppy girl with a Yoshi shirt on, and she corrects me saying that it's pronounced "Yoshy" (Joshy with a Y) then I will go insane.
Oh, and don't say that all that new stuff is Punk, Punk was about being different, and all the stuff out sounds exactly the same to me. Same voices, same meaning (nothing), same tunes. It's all Pop.
intel @ May 26th 2006 6:41PM
*all submissions become property*
Hey MTV, how much did we all give you to make money off of us? You're a bunch of brainwasher sell outs even if you didn't get any submissions.
Travis Gardner @ May 26th 2006 9:53PM
I got invited; im going. I wonder if they will pay for airfare otherwise im driving.