Steven Spielberg’s love of video video games is well-documented. There are quite a few footage of him posing subsequent to traditional arcade video games like Donkey Kong, Missile Command, and Area Invaders, and he is been concerned in varied video game-related tasks through the years, together with directing the movie adaptation of Prepared Participant One.
However whereas many adults lose their ardour for gaming because the get older, Spielberg is outwardly nonetheless at it. There’s only one factor: he would not like controllers.
“He loves story video games and I am at all times making an attempt to get him to play Uncharted as a result of it is Indiana Jones and I am like, ‘Hey, you’d respect this.’ However he is like, ‘I am unable to do controllers. I can solely do keyboard and mouse,'” stated his son Max Spielberg, himself a recreation developer, in an interview with MinnMax.
His aversion is outwardly robust sufficient that when Spielberg’s son confirmed off his recreation, a co-op roguelite revealed by Dreamhaven, he needed to be the one demo it as a result of his father would not choose up the controller. Hey, at the very least Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves has mouse and keyboard help on Steam, proper?
In any occasion, Max says that gaming is a massive level of bonding between the 2. “He loves gaming. He’s the one who bought me into it. He performs video games. He’s a massive PC gamer. In order that’s form of our bonding level as effectively. He’s like, ‘Hey, what’s good? What Name of Obligation ought to I be enjoying? Ship me a listing of the highest 5 shooters and I am going to get them downloaded, then we will play them collectively if you come over to the home.”
He provides, “It is at all times a Name of Obligation. He loves Name of Obligation. He performs the story marketing campaign.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Max shares some extra tales about Steven Spielberg’s connections with the video games trade, together with the time he acquired a Wii Sports activities demo from Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto. Steven Spielberg, for his half, is difficult at work on his subsequent film, which is alleged to be about UFOs and is because of launch in 2026.
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