Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is getting ready to formally settle for the Democratic celebration nomination for Vice President this week on the Democratic Nationwide Conference. And simply earlier than that occurs, we might have discovered extra about his traditional gaming habits.
Following his choice because the running-mate for presumptive nominee Kamala Harris, a profile in the New York Times outed Walz as a Dreamcast fan. Gamers on the highschool soccer workforce, the place he coached, recalled him sharing tales that the children discovered relatable, like when his spouse took away his Dreamcast as a result of he performed it an excessive amount of. Naturally this sparked hypothesis about what recreation had hooked him so deeply.
IGN reviews that it tracked down a sequence of subsequent homeowners of Walz’s Dreamcast, tracing it again to a person named Tom Johnson. Johnson labored as an intern for Walz’s congressional marketing campaign, and at some point Walz introduced in a field of non-public objects he had deliberate to donate, however that the interns may like to make use of as an alternative. Amongst them was a Dreamcast, which went largely unused within the congressional workplace. Johnson in the end took the Dreamcast with him to school and stated that he remembers seeing a replica of Crazy Taxi already within the system when he took it.
As Johnson notes, Crazy Taxi was a standard recreation for Dreamcast homeowners, so it could not have essentially been Walz’s favourite. However that it was sitting within the console suggests at the very least some degree of affection for the driving recreation. And that is most likely probably the most definitive reply we’ll get on the matter–unless he occurs to deliver it up throughout his DNC speech. Given his jovial demeanor in different speeches, that is not exterior the realm of chance.
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