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Interviewer:Okay, it’s recording. Um, so I’m going to ask you a few questions, so
answer them briefly or you can add something more if you wish.

Interviewee:Okay.

Interviewer:So, first of all, how old are you?

Interviewee:Um, I’m 26 at the moment.

Interviewer:Okay. Um, what comes to your mind when you hear the term ‘video
games’?

Interviewee:Um, probably a good way to spend my time, enjoyable, probably.

Interviewer: Okay. Um, next question, have you ever played one?

Interviewee:Yeah, yeah, I’ve played several in my life.

Interviewer:Okay. Um, can you remember the first video game you ever played?

Interviewee:Hmm, that’s actually a pretty-pretty difficult one.

Interviewer:[coughs]

Interviewee:I’d probably say, you know, like a basic answer, like Ping-Pong-

Interviewer:Umm-hmm [chuckles].

Interviewee:-or something like that. But, um, I think that the first game that I ever
played was Super Mario Brothers.

Interviewer:Umm-hmm.

Interviewee:The first one. Yeah, um--

Interviewer:Was it the one that came in with the computer when you bought it? [laughs]

Interviewee:Not the computer, but with the Super Nintendo, the first one.

Interviewer:Yeah.
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Interviewee:Yeah, I think a lot of people had that. We didn’t have it for a very long time
and, and, you know, the first time that I ever played it was at a friend’s place who was
the first who, who had a gaming console-

Interviewer:Yeah.

Interviewee:-of any kind. Yeah. My, my dad did have a Commodore back in the day,
but he used it mostly for his work and not for-- He didn’t have any games on it, except
for Ping-Pong.

Interviewer:Umm-hmm.

Interviewee:But I never played it, so I wou-I would definitely have to go with Super
Mario Brothers.

Interviewer:Yeah, that’s a classic. Um, okay, so what’s your favourite one?

Interviewee:[pauses]

Interviewer:[laughs]

Interviewee:Favourite one. This is another tough one.

Interviewer:Yeah.

Interviewee:I would probably have to say from the, um-- From theFallout series, I would
probably have to say Fallout 3 because it was the first, like, larger game that I ever
played and, and the experience of playing it was just so-so immersive an-and
everything seemed endless-

Interviewer: [chuckles]

Interviewee:-like endless opportunities so-- I wou-I would definitely go with that one.

Interviewer:Yeah, okay. Um, so, in your opinion, um, do others besides teens and
children play video games?

Interviewee:[laughs] Well, definitely, definitely, yeah. I don’t consider myself either-

Interviewer:[laughs]

Interviewee:I would definitely say that yes, yes they do and, um, I don’t think it should
be classified like that. I believe that a lot of people could, um, definitely benefit from
what video games have to offer and-and how they can affect your life, um, as in a way
of spending your time and, to a certain extent, I believe that video games can, can lead
to social events. Contrary to-

Interviewer:Umm.

Interviewee:-to how people feel about the people who--other people who play video
games.

Interviewer:You mean social events as in, like, I don’t know like- [crosstalk]

Interviewee:Yeah.

Interviewer:-Lan parties or- [crosstalk]

Interviewee:Yeah.

Interviewer:-tournaments.

Interviewee:Or people that you meet over the Internet-

Interviewer:Um, yeah.

Interviewee: -or-or in a video game, definitely.

Interviewer:Yeah.

Interviewee: And to have people-- More people to have things in common, definitely.

Interviewer:Um, okay. That brings us to another point. So, do you think that gaming is
addictive?

Interviewee:[laughs] That’s--

Interviewer:[laughs]

Interviewee:That’s, um-- That could be debated, but, to a certain extent, yeah, yeah, I
do, but very mildly-very mildly addictive or not at all. To a person that doesn’t have
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much-much input, like much-- Not much input, but, but to a person that doesn’t have
much in their life-

Interviewer:Umm-hmm.

Interviewee:-definitely a lot of things can be, very simple things can be addictive.

Interviewer:True.

Interviewee:But-- Hmm-- Very mildly addictive. I would have to go with that.

Interviewer:Umm. Okay, so, need some self-control, I guess.

Interviewee:Yeah, as, as anything in life.

Interviewer:Umm. Okay. So, um-- So do you think that, um-- Do you personally change
when you’re gaming?

Interviewee:Hmm, I think that gaming makes me-makes me more focused when I’m
gaming and I tend to immerse myself in the video game that I’m playing. That’s why I
like games that, that are not that simple and--or are not very straightforward, but-- What
was the question again?

Interviewer:Um, do you think that you personally change when you’re gaming?

Interviewee:Ah, okay, I’ll just answer that, yeah. Yeah, I do. I might get a tad bit
aggressive when-whe-when gaming and I might get-- Let’s just say that I take I take my
games very seriously sometimes.

Interviewer:Yeah, so you do agree that gaming, kinda, increases aggression then?

Interviewee:Um, I don’t know, I didn’t mean it like that, that it brings up aggression.

Interviewer:Okay.

Interviewee:And I don’t think video games make anyone violent in the-in the sense that
people think they do, but--

Interviewer:Yeah, because there’s a big debate goin-going on about that right now.
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Interviewee:Yeah, but-but I don’t think that that’s true or, you know [laughs]. If-if that
would be true, we would be very, very, very different people an-and, you know, I don’t
think-- Other aspects of life take control much, much more than-than what video games
actually do an-and what they actually do to people. I don’t think-- it’s-- Very minuscule in
wh-what other aspects affect life.

Interviewer:Um, okay. Good. Um, do you think that gaming is beneficial and why if it
is?

Interviewee: Um, yeah.

Interviewer:Y-you’ve mentioned that you become focused.

Interviewee:Okay, wh-what do you mean? How do you mean beneficial or do you

Interviewer:Beneficial that, in the sense that do you get anything out of it. Do you get
any positive experiences or--?

Interviewee:Yeah. Definitely that I-I feel that gaming has given a lot to me and-and it
has given me a lot of, like, peace of mind tha-that I’ve gotten it through, through
stressful times and-and it has been a way to-to kinda--

Interviewer:Escape.

Interviewee:Not to let-- To escape. Not to let steam out, but to escape, definitely.

Interviewer:Okay, so then, well do you think that video games contribute to skill
development?

Interviewee:Ah, anything in-in, like, specific skills or-or, like, you know-- Or what do you
mean by that?

Interviewer:Um, I mean that-- Well, there’s been studies about that. That [coughs]
children who play video games, that they are-- kinda, they get better sco-scores in tests
[coughs]. And they, they get focused really quickly and, well, they react to situations a
lot faster-

Interviewee:Umm-hmm.
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Interviewer:-than those that, you know, they don’t do that.

Interviewee:Well, I believe that, you know, they definitely develop the motorical skills a
lot an-and very well and I think that they should be used in teaching a lot more and,
um--I-I feel that my development in languages, for example, has gotten considerable
games--through video games, definitely. And that, you know, my motorical skills have
definitely developed to a more sensitive side through video games. Because video
games create an environment where you have to-you have to succeed, you have to
respond to situations very quickly.

Interviewer:Umm-hmm.

Interviewee:For example, just as an example.

Interviewer: Yeah, okay. Yeah, that’s good. So, few more questions. Um, do you think
that all gamers are lonely and unsocial?

Interviewee:[coughs] Excuse me?

Interviewer:Do you think that all gamers lonely and unsocial? [coughs]

Interviewee:No, no, definitely not. I think that, you know, of course, some are because
they feel that, you know, they might play a video game online or-or they might-they
might socialise through their video game playing, but I don’t think that’s something that-
that should be, you know, “stereotypicised”. That, you know, stereotype, that you
shouldn’t stereotype people through that. And, um, I-I know some very, very social
people who play video games and, um, I can’t really--through my own experiences-- I
can’t say that out of anyone.

Interviewer:Umm, yeah, it kinda seems like it’s a thing of the past.

Interviewee:Definitely, definitely. And that’s what I meant earlier that it’s-it’s becoming a
social event more than-than something that you do completely on your own. Although
that does happen as well.

Interviewer:Hmm, okay. So, do you like it when Hollywood, um, makes a movie from
the video game?
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Interviewee:Excuse me?

Interviewer: Do you like it when Hollywood makes a movie from the video game?

Interviewee:[laughs] I’ll have yet to see a good one, so I’ll definitely--

Interviewer:Well, Resident Evil is an example [laughs].

Interviewee:Yeah, yeah, I believe that, you know, fro-from, for example, out of that
franchise they made one good one and then it was an incredible slippery slope down-

Interviewer:Umm-hmm.

Interviewee:-after that. So I would definitely have to say no. I think that they should
listen to the people who play the video games more when they make them an-and just
not, whenlike, you know, a B-quality studio make them. And just, you know, put more
focus into it actually being like the game on some levels and not being like a
stereotypical action movie, which very, very often is.

Interviewer:Umm-hmm, true. Okay, um, so what do you think the video games will be
like in the future?

Interviewee:Hmm, good question. Um, I think that video games will just be more, more
interactive that, and more immersing, that-that you will have to do a lot more in physical
and mental senses in all ways. That’s a really diverse topic, but I just-

Interviewer:Um--

Interviewee:-believe that they will just definitely take you in a lot more than they have
before, which, I believe, is a good thing. As a gamer. Definitely.

Interviewer:Hmm. Okay, that-that was my last question for you. Thank you for your
time.

Interviewee:Okay, thank you very much. This was--this was a pleasure.

Interviewer:Okay, thank you.

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