Any Way You Look At It
By:Melissa Mario Sister
 
 
 
Last year, I sent a letter to Nintendo expressing my deepest emotions and wants to work for the company. I must have at least filled 3 or 4 whole pages. I explained I wanted a certian game idea of mine to come into the works.
 
A few months later, I received a reply from Nintendo, stating they were happy to accept employees, and they told me how I might get a job. But they also stated the fact that made me sick whenever they said it- they did not accept game ideas from amateurs, for it takes time and money to create a game. So I think to myself, "So what?! They make games alla time! And besides, they don't have to use every idea, and original ideas by an average Joe or Jane could make a lot of moolah."
 
Then I found out the real reason they didn't accept original ideas. On a Tuesday, bored as usual by my music teacher, I was reading a paper she had handed out telling us how tunes became popular. Music publishers, it said, didn't accept amateur ideas. Curious, I read on. It stated that should amateur ideas be submitted, and they weren't used, and an idea similar to an original came out, the amateurs will feel their ideas have been stolen, resulting in serious lawsuits.
Then it hit me like a brick: that was Nintendo's reasoning, also!
We suffer from not being able to give the big N our ideas, but Nintendo will suffer if we do send 'em in. Any way you look at it, we're both screwed.