Back in 2001, one of the key creators behind the original Xbox console, Seamus Blackley, compared gaming to masturbating. Apparently, this didn’t go over well with Bill Gates and other high-ranking Microsoft execs. According to Blackley, he nearly got fired for the quote.
Recently on Twitter, someone pointed out a quote from Bloomberg journalist Dina Bass which read, “Gaming is like masturbation. Everybody does it, nobody wants to talk about it.” She responded to the person on Twitter and explained that she had to give credit to Seamus Blackey, often called the father of the Xbox, who originally said that quote all the way back in 2001. In response to that tweet, Blackley explained that he nearly got fired for that quote.
In 2001, Blackley was giving an interview a few weeks before the launch of the Xbox. And in the interview, he said the infamous quote: “Gaming is like masturbation. Everybody does it, nobody wants to talk about it.”
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