Jon Heder: “I’m a Nintendo loyalist”

Although I haven’t watched Blades of Glory yet, I had a lot of fun watching Jon Heder in Napoleon Dynamite. The actor was recently interviewed by Hollywood Byte’s John Gaudiosi and he talked about skating, working with Will Ferrell, and of course, video games. We’ll skip the ice skating and Will Ferrell talk and instead we’ll focus on Jon Heder and the video games he plays. The actor doesn’t consider himself a video game junkie, but he admits that he has been a gamer for a long time. He mentions that:

When Halo came out, that’s all I played. I’m a big Halo guy. I’m a Nintendo loyalist. I love the Wii. They don’t have tons of games yet for it, but it’s great. I’m a huge Zelda fan. I just beat the Wii game. I’ve always been a Zelda fan. It’s fantasy. It’s going to a different world. It’s problem-solving and figuring out clues and how to get around the place. My wife enjoys it. It’s something we can enjoy together.

His love for anything Nintendo started when he was still a kid. He divulges that when they were growing up, they’d get every Nintendo system and they’d only get the best games since their cash flow is a bit tight. He said that “they’d always get the Mario games, Zelda games, and Donkey Kong.” He also reveals that he is a Tetris junkie and that it was his specialty. Although he stopped playing video games when he was in college, he is again hooked thanks to the Wii and the DS. He explains that:

The DS is amazing. It’s not a Game Boy any more. We’re not fiddling around any more. We have interactive touch screens. Mario Kart DS is amazing. It’s so addictive. I’ve never been angrier in my life because I get so mad when I lose at that game. So now all of my brothers have a DS and we’re going out and trying to buy all of the cool multiplayer games. We’re going through a little second Nintendo revolution right now.

He divulges that on the DS, he usually plays Tetris, Brain Age, or Metroid Pinball. On the Wii, Heder confesses that he can’t get enough of Wii Sports – specifically Wii Golf. Another thing that he gushes about is the Wii’s Virtual Console. He said he had grabbed Super Mario World, Contra, Street Fighter, Castlevania and Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past. Although he said that getting Castlevania “was a mistake. I remember thinking it was totally sweet when I was young, but it didn’t hold up.”

Heder is also open to providing voicework for video games. He said that lending his voice for a video game is like a movie. “If it’s a cool set-up and a cool story. And in the game world, it has to be fun to play. If it’s really fun to play, I think it’s cool. Sure, why not.”

The word per word interview could be found through our read-link below.

Although I haven’t watched Blades of Glory yet, I had a lot of fun watching Jon Heder in Napoleon Dynamite. The actor was recently interviewed by Hollywood Byte’s John Gaudiosi and he talked about skating, working with Will Ferrell, and of course, video games. We’ll skip the ice skating and Will Ferrell talk and instead we’ll focus on Jon Heder and the video games he plays. The actor doesn’t consider himself a video game junkie, but he admits that he has been a gamer for a long time. He mentions that:

When Halo came out, that’s all I played. I’m a big Halo guy. I’m a Nintendo loyalist. I love the Wii. They don’t have tons of games yet for it, but it’s great. I’m a huge Zelda fan. I just beat the Wii game. I’ve always been a Zelda fan. It’s fantasy. It’s going to a different world. It’s problem-solving and figuring out clues and how to get around the place. My wife enjoys it. It’s something we can enjoy together.

His love for anything Nintendo started when he was still a kid. He divulges that when they were growing up, they’d get every Nintendo system and they’d only get the best games since their cash flow is a bit tight. He said that “they’d always get the Mario games, Zelda games, and Donkey Kong.” He also reveals that he is a Tetris junkie and that it was his specialty. Although he stopped playing video games when he was in college, he is again hooked thanks to the Wii and the DS. He explains that:

The DS is amazing. It’s not a Game Boy any more. We’re not fiddling around any more. We have interactive touch screens. Mario Kart DS is amazing. It’s so addictive. I’ve never been angrier in my life because I get so mad when I lose at that game. So now all of my brothers have a DS and we’re going out and trying to buy all of the cool multiplayer games. We’re going through a little second Nintendo revolution right now.

He divulges that on the DS, he usually plays Tetris, Brain Age, or Metroid Pinball. On the Wii, Heder confesses that he can’t get enough of Wii Sports – specifically Wii Golf. Another thing that he gushes about is the Wii’s Virtual Console. He said he had grabbed Super Mario World, Contra, Street Fighter, Castlevania and Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past. Although he said that getting Castlevania “was a mistake. I remember thinking it was totally sweet when I was young, but it didn’t hold up.”

Heder is also open to providing voicework for video games. He said that lending his voice for a video game is like a movie. “If it’s a cool set-up and a cool story. And in the game world, it has to be fun to play. If it’s really fun to play, I think it’s cool. Sure, why not.”

The word per word interview could be found through our read-link below.