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Quinto fondly recalls videogames before he got too old for them

Syfy has posted a short video interview with Zachary Quinto who appears in Star Trek Online as the voice of the Emergency Medical Hologram who is not Spock at all, seriously, he's not, he's really not, even though Quinto played Spock in the movie, this isn't him in the game, seriously, it's not.

Quinto voices the character in an oddly brief bit when you first start playing. You'd almost think it was added at the last minute just to get some sort of real-world connection to the latest Star Trek movie. Quinto manages to undercut his gaming credibility with this bit:

I had Atari when I was a kid. I was the last generation of Pitfall, I think. And then I sort of moved into Nintendo and Super Mario. I was always a big Super Mario fan. I definitely gamed a little bit when I was a kid. But, you know, I mean, I outgrew it. I have plenty of things to engage me in my real experience in the real world that the notion of removing myself from it in order to immerse myself in a world that doesn't exist seems a little bit extraneous at this point.
Reading that makes me arch my right eyebrow the same way Spock arches his right eyebrow when McCoy says something provocative. I'm not sure if that's a good comparison, since I don't really watch Star Trek since I outgrew it.

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