It was in my hands in 2019 as I tried to keep a straight face while asking Nintendo veterans what a gooey version of Luigi would taste like. I took it with me to many iterations of E3 in Los Angeles in order to report on the state of the Japanese game industry, explore Nintendo’s plans for the future, and try to understand Phil Spencer’s philosophy for the Xbox. Shigeru Miyamoto ahead of the launch of Super Mario Run in 2016 Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge I had it with me when, just a day after filing my review, I sat down for a nice, long chat with the directors of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in San Francisco. I took it with me when I flew to New York to hear Shigeru Miyamoto’s grand plan for bringing Super Mario to the iPhone and when I was in Montreal to learn how the team at Ubisoft recreates an entire city like Paris. Every in-person interview I’ve done in that span was recorded on that machine. In fact, it’s been with me for the entirety of my career at The Verge thus far, which dates back to 2012. But earlier this month, while attending Summer Game Fest, I came to a sad conclusion: the rewind button didn’t function, which pushed the recorder past the point of usefulness.īut it lived a good life. Even when the “erase” button fell off, I stuck by it. So, as long as the recorder worked, I had no real reason to replace it.
But I’ve always been paranoid about losing an interview and wasting both my time and - even worse - that of someone who agreed to talk to me for a story. The RCA recorder didn’t have any especially notable features the sound quality was just OK, and it was actually pretty annoying having to keep a bunch of AAA batteries on deck.
I hung on to that gadget for one main reason: I trusted it.
#RCA RECORDEE PROFESSIONAL#
I have no idea what model it is, but it went on to follow me through my entire professional career to date - now, nearly 13 years later, it’s finally being retired. So I rushed to Radio Shack and picked the cheapest voice recorder I could find, a little grey rectangle made by RCA that was locked up in a glass display case. This was a problem because I was scheduled to talk with Yoichi Wada, then president of Square Enix, along with several other notable industry people. Back in November 2009, I was getting ready to attend the Montreal International Games Summit, and I panicked - it was my first major event as a member of the press, and I had no way to record an interview.
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