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The game came out just over a year, a year and a half ago now, and it's one of the best - from a realistic standpoint - squad-based games. But recent games have come out, like Rainbow Six: Siege. When I say 'better,' I mean closer to real life, except for the whole respawning thing, obviously. This is broad, but what is your opinion of military or war representation in videogames? Jonny And, again, it's that whole completely different world and environment and it's just you and your console and your cold beer and you're just having fun and not thinking about real life. So, seeing the cartoon version of it as you're jacking a car and rolling around, it gets kinda fun. Especially if you're coming from a zone or an area that you're used to seeing the real thing. I mean, that might be an oddball way of saying it, but when it's super-fictional and it's just - it looks so stupid, that makes it fun. I mean, The simple grotesque violence that was in Grand Theft Auto was awesome because it was so fake that it was fun to play. Davidĭid you find that different types of stresses in that lifestyle of serving attracted you to different sorts of games? Jonny So, that was always fun, just beating each other up electronically. I was always the Dallas Cowboys and almost everyone else was either some California-based or some New York-, New England-based team. Even on the videogame side, he did better than me at golf.īut with Madden, I love just getting the guys together and to play and have that electronic camaraderie of playing videogames and just getting us all in the same room, drinking some cold beers, and battling it out. My dad was playing Tiger Woods back in the states and I was overseas and I would play it and we would be able to compare scores and he'd be able to tell me how he's doing on his character and I'd be able to say how I'm doing on my character. I actually hate gold but my dad loves it. What did you like about Madden and Tiger Woods ? Jonny Non-military games would have been - I loved Tiger Woods and Madden back then. But, when you weren't out in the field and serving, what non-military videogames were popular with you and the people around you? Jonny Let me take you back, then, because I think the obvious place to start is by asking what you think of military videogames. In the Navy, I don't play the Army's propaganda recruitment tool. Have you ever played America's Army ? Jonny Maybe in the background it kind of helped, but I think it's more of, 'Oh crap, I just dropped out of college.

So, military and war-style videogames do definitely appeal to me. I mean, I have every Command & Conquer videogame ever created.

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I played a lot of Command & Conquer on the PC when I was growing up. But, my genre of choice is around the more military-style videogames, like first-person shooters. Me dropping out of college because I was bored out of my mind was the reason I enlisted. So, maybe it's an odd place to start, but did videogames at all influence your choice to enlist? Jonny But I guess, here we are talking, so they must've thought you were a good enough guy to at least put a good perspective on our thoughts and our feelings. When the guys from Operation Supply Drop asked me if I'd be willing to talk to you, I said, 'Well, as long as he's not a douche, I'm good.' David They don't ever take a look at the positive outlook and the positive aspects of what videogames do for us. The media doesn't really pay a lot of attention to us when it comes to that unless we do something stupid or we claim videogames made us go out and do something or some veteran committed suicide because of something that happened in a videogame. I think it's nice, kind of understanding our take from the veteran - and though I'm not active today, 10 years ago I was active and I was still a hardcore videogamer. It's just a good way to throw down the baseline of where we're both at on this. You won't hurt my feelings if you think it's weird or whatever. What was your highest rank within the Navy? JonnyĪnd what do you make of this, me reaching out to interview you about your views on videogames? Jonny That is simply the nature of being on the tactical side of the intelligence field. I was a cryptologist and I served in a combat zone. What did you do in the Navy? Did you see combat? Jonny Ever since then, I've pretty much played videogames as much as possible. And then my world changed when the Nintendo Entertainment System came out. I was too young to really play with it then, and then had to have the Atari so I could play Pong and Pac-Man and all those good games. Kinda grew up with - my dad had the old TI, Texas Instruments videogame console in the house. I've been kinda gaming since about three years old, four years old. Navy and have been gaming ever since - wow. So, my name is Jonathan but I go by Jonny Roadblock online.

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