Last week, The Daily Beast ran a profile of Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz centered on a single fact: Cruz is a life-long gamer. According to the piece, Cruz's gaming resume includes everything from Atari in his youth to late night Super Mario Bros. fighting games through grad school to mobile games and Chuck E. Cheese with the kids today.
The Daily Beast author seems a bit bemused describing this facet of Cruz's life, referring to "a largely hidden geek persona" and speculating on whether his gaming side can push back a "perception of rigidity" among the voting public. "He’s known for being pugilistic on the Senate floor, but sometimes he’d rather be fighting cartoon zombies on his iPhone," the piece points out wryly. Cruz can only admit to liking games today, the author says, because "geeks are cool now, they rule the world."
What's more surprising than Cruz's gaming habit, though, is that anyone should be surprised by it in the first place. Cruz is part of the first rising generation of prominent US politicians that grew up with video games, and that generation's rise to power could have a profound effect on how the medium is seen in the nation's halls of power.
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