After hearing her celebrity impersonations, GTE Interactive Media contacted her and asked her to imitate voices from the film FernGully: The Last Rainforest, which was being pitched for a LaserDisc presentation to Magnavox and Philips.
[3] She was then referred by the company to their CD-ROM division, where she worked on more voices and assisted script writing on games for children.
[4] Minella asked the company if there were others doing similar work, and they suggested that she should go to trade shows, which led her to attend showcases like Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Game Developers Conference in San Jose, and Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, where she gave out business cards but failed to get any offers.
She shortly got him a telephone interview with the game's creator, George Broussard, and eventually got him the part of Duke.
HeR Interactive's CEO then decided to find a voice actress local to the Seattle area (Minella resides in San Diego).