Hugh Hefner’s view of video games and his Game Room in Hef's Little Black Book:
Hef's Little Black Book, 2004

Hef's Little Black Book By Hugh M. Hefner, Bill Zehme
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date: May 2004
ISBN-13: 9780060585389
Biography & Autobiography - 160 pages
Playboy Pinball Playmates (1978)
Hef's Little Black Book (Hardcover) by Hugh M. Hefner, Bill Zehme
Hef's Little Black Book (2004)
Game playing gives you something else to think about. It’s a great escape. That’s all it is. Working hard and playing hard has always been what my life has been all about. Particularly if you are doing things you really enjoy.
When I first published Playboy, Outdoor adventure magazines were very popular. But as I wrote the introduction to that initial issue, I was a little more interested in the Great Indoors. Apparently, I was not the only one. Indoors is where my favorite games are played.
When You’ve got the Hand Protect It – Page 105
It’s certainly true that we went through periods of obsession in the Game Room, especially related to individual pinball and electronic games. Shannon Tweed, my girlfriend from the early 1980’s talks about the fact that she and the other girls viewed themselves as Pac Man widows because they would sit there for hours waiting for us to get through these games. I played Pac Man so obsessively that I got bursitis - like tennis elbow for the thumb – and had to start wearing a glove during games.
Hugh Hefner
Editor-in-Chief, Chief Creative Officer, Playboy magazine