‘Softie in question: Raphael Mun

Job title: Software Development Engineer for Xbox Platform

First off, congratulations on the launch of Kinect. Was working in gaming a life-long dream for you?
As a little kid in Korea, I was originally into reading. But everything changed when my dad came back from a work trip to Japan with an Atari system and a vector graphics cowboy game. Next thing I knew, I was playing games until my nose was bleeding-

Nose was bleeding?
You know what I mean: a lot. I was hooked. Then came Super Mario World. After that, I didn’t read so much any more.

Tell me about the jump from playing games to creating games.
My family moved to Virginia and I did the Center for Talented Youth summer program at Johns Hopkins before I started in the 6th grade. It was there that I learned Java and made my first tic-tac-toe game.

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