| Jules
Asner does not have the face of a killer. In fact, the host of E! News
Daily has the face of the girl next door ... if you live in a really
good-looking neighborhood. But if you ever square off against her in a
game of Tekken 3, you'll probably get killed. Quickly. For while
this statuesque beauty has a warm grin and playful sense of humor, she's
murderously determined when it comes to video games, smacking the buttons
like they've done her wrong. She loves them so much, in fact, that she
often goes to such movie theaters as the Galaxy in Hollywood a few minutes
early, just so she can drop a stack of quarters on her favorite fighting
game, Tekken 3.
What was the first video
game you got really hooked on?
I was really hooked on Pong.
I remember when my dad brought it home and hooked it up to the TV.
DUELING JULES When there's
no scrubs to slap down, Jules plays with herself.
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He's also a
software specialist, so when he worked for Motorola years ago, he'd bring
home games they had made for the computers. They made this cheapo, cheapo
Star
Trek game, Kill The Klingons is what it was called. And I remember
getting this thing called a Merlin; it had tic-tac-toe and a music memory
game. I remember desperately wanting that.
Were there any video
game that, when you were a kid, you were really, really good at?
I was really good at Pong,
until it got crazy fast. I was good at Blockbuster, too. But Galaga
was the game I excelled at. I used to play it at this huge arcade by my
house in Arizona. Video games were a big part of growing up. I'm from Arizona,
and it was hot, so there was nothing to do but watch TV and play some video
games. It's just something I've always done. It's not like now that I'm
grown up I don't play video games because girls like me don't do that.
What kind of games are you
in to now?
I like shoot-'em up games,
fighting games, and some of the driving games - though I'm really, really
bad at the driving games. But I'm a bad driver in real life, so that's
not a shock. Whenever we go to the movies, though, we always go early and
play video games. I'll give myself an extra 20 minutes.
When you play Tekken
3 at the Galaxy, do you play with the same character all the time,
or do you mix it up?
I play Xiaoyu, she's been
very good to me, she kicks ass. But if she's not doing well, I doing well,
I do the log guy.
What's the best pick-up
line a guy ever used on you while you were playing a video game?
People are always like,
"Wow, she's good," but I don't think anyone's tried to pick me up. I think
it's that aggressive thing you get when you play video games that can be
scary, especially when |
the girl is 5" 10" like
me.
Do you have any plans
to get a game machine at home?
My boyfriend, whom I live
with, really wants a Playstation, and I've been the one ixnaying that.
I have to just say no to video games sometimes because they're just so
distracting. I had a Nintendo once, but had to give it up because it was
such a time-sucker. But he says now that he'll get me one for my birthday
so we can play the new Star Wars game.
When you do, are you
going to get your own Tekken 3 ?
No, that's like a special
movie thing.
Who usually wins, by
the way, you or your boyfriend?
I actually do. He's always
surprised.
Have you ever had a first
date where you played video games?
Not a first date. I think
my boyfriend and I played video games early on, and I know that I kicked
his ass, and he was certainly impressed with that.
Do you play games when
you're at work?
No, because I get too distracted.
They have this game called Snood, it's a South Park game,
and a lot of people have it installed on their computers. When I was hosting
Wild
On..., I was traveling a lot, and when I'd come back, it would be installed
on my computer. But I didn't want to be distracted, and I don't want people
sitting at my desk, so I'd delete it. But then when I'd go away again,
someone would put it back.
Speaking of which, have
you ever done a Wild On... special where you went to a video arcade?
When we were in Vegas I
actually wanted to go to GameWorks, but timing-wise it just didn't work
out.
So tell me honestly,
when you were a kid, did you steal quarters from your parents to play video
games?
Oh yeah. Probably thousands
of dollars. Really.
Y'know, you could pay
them back.
I could. But I'm not going
to.
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GAMER
CREDENTIALS
Years
as a gamer: Over 20
Where
you've seen her: E! News Daily and E! Wild On... specials
Favorite
game: Galaga
Favorite
video game character: Ling Xiaoyu from Tekken 3
Systems
she has owned: Atari, Colecovision, Nintendo
High
score initials: J.A.W. |
