#30 — Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)
Harrison was the first president to live in the White House with electricity. And yet, he spent exactly zero percent of his time working to invent Donkey Kong.
#29 — Rutherford B. Hayes (1877–1881)
Rutherford would have been one of those guys who really likes Katamari Damacy or something, but felt that games like Doom are a little too scary.
#28 — Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)
Truman would think that video games are a foolish waste of time, but, when incredibly drunk, would admit to loving a fierce game of Checkers.
#27 — Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929)
Calvin Coolidge is the guy you went to high school with and are friends with on Steam, but you haven’t checked in with in years. That being said, every few days or so, you see his name pop up on the bottom right-hand corner of your screen. Yep, he’s playing another anime porn game.
#26 — Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921)
Woodrow Wilson would say he hates video games, but would admit in private, twice in his life, that he thinks Zero Suit Samus is “quite exquisite.”
#25 — James Monroe (1817–1825)
In a world where Monroe plays video games instead of becoming our nation’s fifth president, the Monroe Doctrine would be a list of who counts as a real gamer and who doesn’t. SORRY NINTENDO FANS!!!!!
#24 — James K. Polk (1845–1849)
James K. Polk would somehow live his entire life without ever learning what a video game is, no matter what era he lived in.
#23 — William McKinley (1897–1901)
McKinley would grow a very small following online for complaining that video games are getting too woke and that female protagonists aren’t wearing enough makeup, only to have his entire shit blown up by an anarchist Twitch streamer who discovered him and dedicated a stream to dunking on it.
#22 — Chester A. Arthur (1881–1885)
Chester would be really into playing Mario Kart and Smash Bros. and Mario Party with his buddies and he’d pick Bowser every single game. He doesn’t even own a Nintendo console. He just thinks Bowser is cool.
#21 — John Tyler (1841–1845)
John Tyler wouldn’t ever play video games, but he would constantly watch gaming content creators, frequently getting wrapped up in feuds between his favorite creators’ enemies, and yelling at them on Twitter.
#20 — Bill Clinton (1993–2001)
Yes, he’s still alive, and no, we’ve never heard about him playing video games. But if I found out he’s lowkey insanely good at some random video game — like in his free time, he does speedruns of Duke Nukem Forever, but he’s literally never played another game in his life — I somehow wouldn’t be surprised.
#19 — Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)
Dwight D. Eisenhower would be a catgirl.
#18 — James A. Garfield (1881)
James A. Garfield tried to fight corruption and then was shot to death 200 days into his presidency. Today, he would have suffered the same fate — as the moderator of a large video game subreddit.
#17 — Warren G. Harding (1921–1923)
Warren G. Harding would call himself a huge gamer; “the G in my name stands for Gaming!” he would tweet every three months or so. But he would be one of those guys constantly complaining that there hasn’t been a good game since 1997 and that everything modern sucks.
#16 — Zachary Taylor (1849–1850)
Zachary Taylor died in office, so it’s hard to say how he would play video games given his presidency. That being said, Zachary is the name of a gamer. You cannot deny that a lot of gamers are named Zachary. He would have loved Fortnite.
