8. He Made His Own Video Game And It Was Basically Just A Porn Version Of Mario
Before music, West tried his creative hands at a number of different projects (more on that later) and one of the more obscure paths he went down was video games. Despite only being in 7th grade at the time, West claimed to have been putting the finishing touches on a game that wasn't too dissimilar from Nintendo's iconic plumber and his platforming adventures. Only with... um... some slight exceptions. "My game was very sexual", Kanye openly confessed in an interview about it. "The main character was, like, a giant penis. It was like Mario Brothers, but the ghosts were, like, vaginas. Mind you, I'm 12 years old, and this is stuff 30-year-olds are programming. You'd have to draw in and program every little step. It literally took me all night to do a step, 'cause the penis, y'know, had little feet and eyes". There's an alternative universe out there that's almost identical to our own, except Kanye West isn't an international musician, producer and designer, but instead he's the owner of a giant gaming franchise that's just released Penis Kart on the Wii.
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