Pong > Barack Obama
by Justin Arnold on August 7, 2008
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. Read more…
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