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It\u2019s been a while since a known gamer frequented The White House. The first, and last, to do so was former President Barack Obama, who brought a Nintendo Wii<\/a> with him when he took office and, according to someone who played against him, apparently mains Captain Falcon in Super Smash Bros<\/a>. But depending on the outcome of the 2024 election, The White House may soon have a second gamer milling around: current Minnesota governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz.<\/p>\n

But Gov. Walz isn\u2019t bringing a Nintendo Wii with him (that we know of), nor has he attempted to settle his political disputes in Smash to our knowledge. His gaming habits are, surprisingly, a bit deeper a cut than that. It turns out that Gov. Walz is reportedly a fan of the Sega Dreamcast. And through some sleuthing, we\u2019ve managed to not only track down Walz\u2019s old Dreamcast console, but we may have also uncovered at least one game that the former teacher-turned-politician has historically enjoyed: Crazy Taxi.<\/p>\n

Little Dreamcast, Big Adventure<\/h2>\n

We first learned that Gov. Walz was, at one point, a Dreamcast enjoyer due to an article in The New York Times<\/a>. In the report, a former student of Walz\u2019s recalls that he used to share \u201cunusually relatable\u201d stories with his classes, \u201clike the time his wife had seized his Dreamcast, the Sega video game console, because he had been playing to excess.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obviously, this immediately sparked a flurry of community memes speculating what game had Walz so enraptured. Was it Sega Bass Fishing, a quintessential \u201cdad\u201d game that seemed in keeping with Gov. Walz\u2019s overall demeanor? Was it Sega Sports NFL 2K, an apropos choice given he was a football coach and then-Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Randy Moss was on the cover? Was it something more left-field like Shenmue or Skies of Arcadia? Theories abounded. We, and probably a number of other journalists, reached out to Gov. Walz\u2019s office weeks ago looking for the answer, but didn\u2019t get any response.<\/p>\n

I get a little kick out of knowing our future VP might know who Big the Cat is.<\/p>\n

That would have been the end of it, but for one member of gaming forum ResetEra. The user, Bryn Tanner (who goes by Aaron on the forum), had posted way back in 2018<\/a> that they were in possession of Gov. Walz\u2019s old Dreamcast. \u201cOh I bought a Dreamcast for $25 back in 2012 from one of his former high school students who worked on his campaign. Walz was just like \u2018hey we have this old video game thing, do you want it?\u2019 And the guy took it.\u201d<\/p>\n

When I reached out to him, Tanner was taking a well-deserved and humorous victory lap<\/a> as news about the Dreamcast surfaced. \u201clmao yes I still have that Dreamcast this fucking rules,\u201d he wrote in a post following the NYT piece. Tanner went on to tell me that while the Dreamcast he purchased at the time came with a VMU, a third-party rumble pack, two controllers, and a controller extension cable, the VMU didn’t have any data on it. And the console did not come with any games, though Tanner bought a copy of Crazy Taxi for $4 at Pawn America later on the day of the purchase.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get a little kick out of knowing our future VP might know who Big the Cat is if he ever played Sonic Adventure,\u201d Tanner tells me.<\/p>\n

Though Tanner didn\u2019t know what games Walz played, he did know someone who might. He referred me to Alex Gaterud, one of Walz\u2019s former Global Geography students at Mankato West. Though Gaterud doesn\u2019t remember Walz ever speaking with him about video games, he was roommates in college with another Mankato graduate who brought along the Dreamcast in question and left it behind when he moved out. Gaterud then says he sold the Dreamcast to Tanner, though he points out to me that “advertising something \u2018formerly owned by a U.S. Congressman\u2019 doesn’t add any value on Craigslist.\u201d<\/p>\n

What games came with the Dreamcast? Gaterud doesn\u2019t know – there weren\u2019t any around when he handed it off to Tanner, and he can\u2019t recall ever playing anything on it. Fortunately, Gaterud was able to connect me to one more person who might be able to sort this out once and for all. So I called up Tom Johnson, another Mankato West graduate and a former campaign intern for Gov. Walz.<\/p>\n

Tim Walz and the Nerd Herd<\/h2>\n

Tom Johnson graduated Mankato West in 2007, and spent the summer before he went to college working for Walz\u2019s congressional campaign. As an intern, he would send out mailers, coordinate volunteers, and drive around Minnesota, occasionally with Walz along for the ride. <\/p>\n

Given that it wasn\u2019t an election year, Johnson says the vibes were fairly relaxed and quiet, and the campaign office had a break area in the back with a mini putt set, a couch, and a TV. One day, he recalls, Walz brought in a box of stuff that he had planned to donate, saying he thought the staff might like to use it. Inside, of course, was the Dreamcast.<\/p>\n

Johnson and the other staff didn\u2019t play the Dreamcast much during its stint in the campaign office, so when he left for college, Johnson just took it with him, which is how it reached Gaterud and later Tanner. But while Johnson wasn\u2019t doing much Dreamcast gaming, he tells me that in high school he was a part of a group of individuals known (\u201caffectionately, I hope\u201d) as the \u201cNerd Herd\u201d at Mankato West. The group would have LAN parties together, and play World of Warcraft late into the night. Many Nerd Herd members, Johnson says, went on to work on Walz\u2019s campaign for Congress in 2006. \u201cI would say the Nerd Herd of Mankato contributed greatly to [Walz\u2019s] election to Congress in 2006, which had the domino effect of him being nominated for vice president of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWalz really is just such a great, normal guy,\u201d Johnson continues. \u201cHe\u2019s one of those guys, it\u2019s like, he\u2019s your friendly neighbor, and then you find out that guy has the Guiness Book of World Records for free throw shooting. He\u2019s just a normal guy, he just happens to be a governor too. Everything people say about him being this down to earth guy, really nice, really friendly, really earnest, it\u2019s all true.\u201d<\/p>\n

But what video games does he play? Johnson thinks he remembers one disc sitting inside the Dreamcast when he took it from the office to go to college.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanna say there was Crazy Taxi,\u201d Johnson says.<\/p>\n

Is Crazy Taxi the game Gov. and VP candidate Tim Walz played so much that his wife took his Dreamcast away? We still don\u2019t know for sure. It is, as Gaterud put it to me, \u201cbasically law that all Dreamcasts need a copy of Crazy Taxi,\u201d so at minimum, Gov. Walz almost certainly owned a copy. And in a TikTok video posted by Tanner about the Dreamcast<\/a>, one commenter seems to imply they at one point knew Walz, and that he talked about Crazy Taxi a lot – we’ve reached out to them for more details. I\u2019ve also reached out to his office again to see if he\u2019ll confirm, but nothing so far. And I reached out to Sega for comment on the possibility that their goofy driving franchise played a tiny role in the current presidential election. No comment there either.<\/p>\n

Whatever the case, Gov. Walz\u2019s however-brief flirtation with the Dreamcast would make him the first known gamer vice president if he and current vice president Kamala Harris are elected. Given that Crazy Taxi is apparently getting an open-world reboot<\/a>, maybe we\u2019ll see it make an appearance in the White House one of these days.<\/p>\n

Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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