Pong > Barack Obama
by Justin Arnold on August 7, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Someone is going to need an Xbox 360 on Air Force One.
In a particularly hard-hitting interview with presidential candidate Barack Obama, Entertainment Weekly asked the presumptive democratic nominee what was the last videogame he played.
“Pong … That should give you a sense of my age. I loved that game.”
Other similarly in-depth questions ranged through the gamut of presidential politics such as spousal remote control rights and what’s currently on his iPod.
Don’t ask.
When the same pop-culture questions were put to the presumptive republican presidential nominee John McCain there was no mention of videogames whatsoever. Probably because the closest he as ever got to a Nintendo DS is a sock puppet.
In a *conference call with the two presidential candidates regarding their videogame play, Obama and McCain were unusually candid with their level of experience.
Obama: The last game I played was pong.
McCain: Pong? What, you some kinda communist? You and pong and Charlie!
Obama: CHANGE!
McCain: AGE!
Obama: Have you ever even played a video game? Or, you know, seen one?
McCain: What is this ‘vider gamm’ you keep talking about? Sounds like an East German stew.
Obama: That’s because the closest you ever got to a home entertainment system was making shadow puppets from the light of the fire. In your cave. Where you still live.
McCain: That’s to promote my rugged, masculine image.
Obama: This from a guy who still eats slabs of bison meat and wears bear pelts.
*Please note that this highly-accurate transcript of a conference call that never happened is for entertainment purposes only. Many thanks to fellow Ripten colleague Mr. Wade Larson who aided in the engagement of the aforementioned awesome.
SOURCE: www.ew.com
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on August 7, 2008 12:44 pm
I’ll post what I posted on Dtoid (I made it!)
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s169/greeneggsnsam1/obamapong.gif
on August 7, 2008 12:51 pm
But where do they stand on the important issues, like which system has better online capabilities? Is the wii a silly gimmick? Would you support a Final Fantasy VII remake?
Neither candidate has answers. I’m voting for the Master Chief. He’ll win the war on terror by himself.
on August 7, 2008 1:14 pm
Sorry, Green. I updated your comment to make it a link. We don’t have the ability to post images just yet.
on August 7, 2008 1:46 pm
Thanks. I would have changed it myself, but there’s no edit button either!