Part documentary with weirdly staged scenes and part training sitting , a recently unearthed 1996 instructional video for game tester at Sega is the banquette your 90s nostalgia has been hold off to fingerboard into – all gloriously photograph in washed - out Hi8 .
Titled " This is Sega Test , a trainumentary by Stanley Coenberg " ( Yes ! ) , it ’s more 90s than corporate Soul soundtracking a Crystal Pepsi commercial message starring Jaleel White .
The resulting footage looks like what would happen if you threw corporate training video failures into a blender with an early 90 effect of Alternative Press . Just hitting the high spot imply skipping over other golden moment , like when Dave pointlessly drops an integral binder full of papers in the hallway , or when a letter - jacketed game examiner does reaching during his smoke break . There simply is n’t time to concentrate on all of it .
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That ’s not even mentioning the too - long shot of someone flattening a dollar pecker against the side of a monger simple machine , or the post - spanning trailing shots that would make Aaron Sorkin ’s stonewashed Silvertabs tighten . No , on to the downright good function .
The Music
Montages of first - somebody shooter games set to Pearl Jam ’s " Alive , " bozo eating goldfish crackers to The Black Crowes ' " redress , " and the squad talking about their dream over Tears for Fears ' " Everybody Wants to Rule the World " ? Yes .
We ’re one Fastball ’s " The path " away from a Spotify playlist the intact java shop will delight .
Also , this guy was clearly intoScreaming Tree .
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Smoke Break
There ’s an entire division of the " trainumentary " about the " Smoke Break . " If you ’ve started a new job any sentence in the last decade , you might be more familiar with this as a " break . " you may fume on " break , " but there are n’t many jobs where the training program actively encourages you to get out there and burn ‘em if you ’ve get ‘em .
The interviewer actually call for one tester what she does to relieve tenseness . The response , full with freeze inning to maximise the cool : smoke gap .
The Posters
The best bit of nostalgia might come in the form of employee genius . The posters are magnificent . One guy , the jock doing stretches on his smoke break , loves Street Fighter so much that he hastwoSuper Street Fighter III posters at his desk . Some other dude just really enjoyedThe Fugitive .
There are also posters forSeinfeld , Darkman , one just generally in favor of Shaquielle O’Neal , Batman : Mask of the Phantasmand a couple Bruce Lee posters . you’re able to almost hear a game of pogs being work on the other side of the cubicle .
The Food
There are so many shots of vending machines . And also , Jolt Cola . Oh gentleman’s gentleman , we loved Jolt Cola in the XC . How much ? Enough to just be getting down from the caffein high up in 2016 .
Karate
You ’re about half style through getting train when it becomes apparent that the 90s translation of Michael Scott directed this . That realisation happens right … here .
Yup . Just two guys partake in parking fortune karate on what must be their Mary Jane break .
Even better ? In the credits it ’s revealed one of these joker does n’t even work at Sega .
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The Credits
Set to The Smashing Pumpkins ' " Today , " the credit are a wonderland of corporate breeding video easter egg .
It have some lady just randomly talking in the background over other hoi polloi , John Jansen ’s credits for directing , redaction , shoot and produce the video ( who is Stanley Coenberg from the opening credits ! ? ) , and the credit above .
It ’s not altogether vindicated who The President is . Was he the guy cable in a button - down shirt ? Is this office so tubular that they had to fell in a cat who owns a button - down shirt and gets his whisker cut by a Samuel Barber ? This job is even salutary than you thought .
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Yes . This is half an minute long , but it ’s deserving every moment . It ’s exactly what would happen if Michael Scott was alive in the 90s and top-notch into both Mudhoney and Sonic the Hedgehog .
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