{"id":113612,"date":"2020-05-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/random_at_reggies_first_e3_someone_thought_he_was_a_security_guard"},"modified":"2020-05-30T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T07:00:00","slug":"random-at-reggies-first-e3-someone-thought-he-was-a-security-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/30\/random-at-reggies-first-e3-someone-thought-he-was-a-security-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: At Reggie’s First E3, Someone Thought He Was A Security Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aim\u00e9 is a relatively tall and well-dressed guy – in fact, at his first E3 with Nintendo someone thought he was a security guard. A member of staff apparently stopped dead in their tracks when they saw Reggie and fumbled about as they tried to show him their ID.<\/p>\n

He relived the moment on a recent episode of the Talking Games Podcast<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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So I\u2019m there in a two-piece suit with a black t-shirt underneath, standing, looking out onto the crowd, and we had various staff running around, doing things. Everyone had to be badged. They needed to have ID that showed that they were allowed to be where they were. So I\u2019m standing there, gazing out to the crowd, and there was a member of a staff that came close to me, and I turned and looked at them, and literally they just stopped \u2013 rigid. He starts fumbling for his ID, and he\u2019s like, he\u2019s showing me his ID, like \u2018it\u2019s okay for me to be there.\u2019 This guy thought I was the security guard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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At the time, Reggie had obviously just been appointed as Nintendo’s new top executive, so you can imagine how confused this guy must have been when he saw Reggie up on stage later on presenting:<\/p>\n

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So imagine what\u2019s going through his brain when the conference starts, and the lights go up, and he sees me. I mean, he must be saying to himself, \u2018What\u2019s going on with Nintendo that they\u2019ve got the security guard giving the presentation? What is this?\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While Reggie found this to be one of the more humourous moments of his first E3, he says it was that E3 in-particular that helped define him and the company for the years ahead. Not long after this, Reggie gained quite the following and was nicknamed the “Regginator” by fans – which is perhaps even more fitting now that we know this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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