Yes Wii Can
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- January
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Today’s inauguration of Barack Obama is of historic importance for many reasons, an obvious one being he’s the first African American president.
But as a proud nerd, to me Barack Obama’s swearing in today will make him… the first video gamer in the White House.
Obama recently bought his family a Nintendo Wii, which apparently he’s been playing a lot of Wii bowling on.
Now I’ve been very critical of Obama’s stance on video games, about how he bashed video games during his campaign yet found them important enough to advertise in.
But even though he’s not a hardcore gamer, he’s a gamer nonetheless.
Nobody could be prouder during this moment than the main character of Atari Basketball, who broke the video game color barrier in 1979 by being the first black character featured in a video game.
If he was still around today, imagine what he’d say. Thank you Obama, for making the Atari basketball guy’s dream come true.
(AP Photo/LM Otero)
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