Gamer profile: Edward F. Gagne (my dad!)

Channel:
United States Gamebits
Subscribers:
81,800
Published on ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6av9PK89V8A


Game:
Tetris (1984)
Duration: 8:26
1,208 views
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Happy Father's Day to my dad, who made me the gamer I am today. In this interview, he relates his early encounters with pinball tables, his decision to bring Apple II and Atari 2600 video games into a home of four boys, his preference for Tetris over Pac-Man, and his opinion on if violent video games corrupt our youth. Full transcript at http://www.gamebits.net/2014/06/15/ed-gagne-interview/

Inspired by Joystiq's "What our moms think about video games":
http://joystiq.com/2014/05/09/what-our-moms-think-about-video-games/

This video contains assets available under Creative Commons or other rights:

"Video Games Evolved: Pac-Man" by William Hunter
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OerJeu3wE5k

"Seduction of the Innocent" by Fredric Wertham, M.D.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_of_the_Innocent

Snake Byte footage produced using Virtual Apple ][
http://www.virtualapple.org/snakebytedisk.html

Special thanks to Eric Shepherd, Dain Neater, Lex Piccione, and Dawn Bjurling for their post-production advice.

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Profile (Literature Subject)
Interview (Film)
Father's Day (Event)
Father (Relation)
Gamer (Profession)
Snake Byte
Tetris (Video Game)
Pac-Man (Video Game)
Pinball (Media Genre)
Edward F. Gagne
Edward Gagne
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Other Statistics

Tetris Statistics For Gamebits

Gamebits currently has 2,257 views spread across 2 videos for Tetris. His channel published less than an hour of Tetris content, making up less than 0.13% of the total overall content on Gamebits's YouTube channel.