Last time we had one of our “Let’s Talk With Steve About…” chats we talked about the NBA Finals. This time out we sat down with Steve to chat about one of our favorite time wasting activities, video games!

OK, I know you have great love for video games. So let’s talk. What’s your console of choice? PS2 or Xbox? Why?

Right now Xbox because the graphics are better. I still play my PS2 (when I get to play anything at all!).

What’s the video game that destroyed your life the most? Which is the one that had your wife or cat or the neighbor kid nagging you the most to stop playing?

The one I am forbidden to load on my computer to this day…”Starcraft.” I played it for eight hours straight once and that was that, no more games on the PC. Luckily this was when I worked for Todd, so nobody noticed.

Do you have a favorite game? What do you look for in games when you’re shopping for a new one?

I like third-person and first person shooters the best; “The Punisher” is a great game. So is “Doom 3.” I generally like decent graphics, but if the controls are screwy they lose me fast. I hardly have any time to play any more so if I don’t become a raging killing machine right away, I move onto another game.

Last time I stopped by I saw you had a PSP sitting on your desk. What’s your thoughts on the PSP?

I like it. Its pretty frickin’ amazing actually. I’ve been playing “NBA Street” and “Golf” using the wireless multiplayer mode. I play against KD, the designer of many fine logos, at least once a week… if the wives let us.

Who’s the better video game player, Tom Jane or Rob Zombie?

They both suck.

Enough about home video games, let’s talk the big stand up machines in arcades. You grew up during that period of great explosion for arcade games. Did you get addicted to any of them? (Mine was “Ms. Pac Man” and no “That makes you a pussy” jokes, please.)

I wasn’t a big arcade kid. I played Pong and that tank in the maze game when those came out. Later I played that first Star Wars game where you attack the Death Star and fly through the canyons. I also remember playing the handheld Football and remember the game with the bloody shark they show in Jaws? I played that.

So, if they were to make a fighting game where instead of starring outlandish martial artists they used comic creators, what would your special moves be?

I think mine would be the Shove Back because I do that a lot and get in trouble.

Second, which comic creator players would you kick ass on?

Ooooooh, no you don’t. Nice try.

Third, and most important, which comic creator player would give you the most troubles in the game, causing you to throw down the controller and exclaim “This game is filled with a bunch of choads!”

You really just want to get me in trouble, don’t you? I’ll split the difference and tell you a comic creator related story. Once, a long time ago, Bendis and I went to one of those giant arcades where Lucas and Spielberg have there big arcade only games. We rode through the Jurassic Park ride. You each have guns and they throw you around like ragdolls while dinos attack. Brian was good. We had each others back. Then he wanted to do one of those games where you dance on pads to make the fighters fight. We are not on there a second and Bendis starts dancing like a crazy man. He kicked my ass, but mostly because I wasn’t playing any longer. I was staring at him freaking out next to me.