As if my illustrious career as a journalist wasn't evidence enough that playing an unhealthy amount of video games can indeed pay off in incredibly rare instances, there's a CEO of a major Japanese games studio that pays his employees extra for being extraordinarily well-informed on his company's games.
Level-5 is the Fukuoka-based developer and publisher behind beloved series like Professor Layton, Ni no Kuni, and Yo-kai Watch, but if you're an employee there and you want to get a nice fat raise so that you can take out a loan on a PS6 one day, you'd do well to study up on the studio's other, more obscure releases, like the 2006 PSP game Jeanne d'Arc or my personal favorite Level-5-published game, Attack of the Friday Monsters!
