In 2001, one of the creators of the first Xbox console compared gaming to masturbation. Seamus Blackley He said this with a certain joking tone, but it was not well received by Bill Gates and other executives microsoft that he almost got fired for this little situation.
Recently in Twitter, someone remembered a quote coined to the journalist Dinah Bass from Bloomberg: ‘Games are like masturbation. Everybody does it, nobody wants to talk about it. She replied that, in fact, it was Seamus Blackley, the so-called father of Xbox who originally said it in 2001:
For its part, Seamus He mentioned that for that appointment he was almost fired from the company despite the contributions he had made to the creation of the game console. microsoft. For its part, Dinah Bass contextualized the words of his partner: ‘Seamus gave me that quote in the fall of 2001, a few weeks before the original launch of the Xbox. The point I was trying to make is that games are more common now, before it used to be hidden.’
Point for both people, it is true that both sex education and video games are now more talked about topics of conversation and less taboo in society.
Did the father of Xbox really say that?
In accordance with Kotaku, this quote was said in the promotion and follow-up work of the first Xbox. Unfortunately, this got to be published in the Eastside Journal, he mentions that the problem grew when ‘conservative wives of Microsoft execs read it’. From that moment on, he began his fight to avoid dismissal.
In 2019, the own backley He gave his version of what his words meant: ‘It was an argument for online multiplayer (games), which Xbox pioneered’. However, the context did not matter anymore with the anger of Bill Gates and Steve Balmer behind him.
Of course, Blackley was not fired and helped microsoft to successfully launch Xbox original. Now, the video game division of microsoft is so big that it is buying companies the size of Activision Y Bethesda.
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