Barack Obama's new Wii doesn't make him the first President in touch with the video game medium, we've concluded after learning that Ronald Reagan told a supposedly ad-libbed "Pac-Man" joke back in 1982.
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I found this Ronald Reagan "Pac-Man" joke while searching for any evidence of past Presidents having a clue about video games. And here it was: the Associated Press reporting on October 11, 1982 about a speech given by the actor-turned-President in Irving, Texas:
Ad libbing during a highly partisan speech to a rally for a Republican candidate, the president said the demands of office sometimes prevent him from keeping up with the latest trends and fads, including the popular video game, ''Pacman.''
''Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money,'' Reagan said. ''I thought that was Tip O'Neill.''
Are you not laughing?
Is that because you don't know who Tip O'Neill was? He was the Democrat Speaker of the House, and not a very slim one at that. Here's a picture:
And here's Pac-Man:
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