# Tim Schafer on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Is this a first? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 4, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-schafer-on-late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-is-this-a-first/512557 "2009-10-04T16:34:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-schafer-on-late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-is-this-a-first/512557/1 "2009-10-04T16:34:04Z")
Tim Schafer was recently on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon promoting his new game [Brütal Legend](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutal_Legend). Is this the first time a game designer has been on a late night talk show promoting his own product? Usually it would be a celebrity attached to the game. In Brütal Legends case it could have been Jack black, and I recall Tiger Woods went on talk shows to promote his golf game. Tim Schafer handled the interview pretty well IMHO. Youtube [link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF0YETfrp-M) to interview. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-schafer-on-late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-is-this-a-first/512557/2 "2009-10-04T21:41:37Z")
I recall seeing Will Wright on a late night talk show for Sim City 2000 so Schafer wasn’t the first but it is pretty rare. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-schafer-on-late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-is-this-a-first/512557/3 "2009-10-05T03:07:21Z")
Don’t know if it counts as a talk show, but Will Wright was on \*Colbert Report \* in December of 2006. [Link](http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/79040/december-04-2006/will-wright). Do you remember what talk show you saw him in? \*Sim city 2000 \*came out in 1993. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-schafer-on-late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-is-this-a-first/512557/4 "2009-10-05T04:28:05Z")
Jimmy Fallon usually does have video game previews on his show, as I recall the developers or people w/ Project Natal showed up and let Jimmy and the other guest play around with the system as a demo to show it off and preview it for the masses. Jimmy’s show has been pretty good about that- he certainly does cater to the electronically minded more so with his Twitter accounts, his web episodes, and the various games and electronics that are previewed on his show. I also recall that he played Tiger Woods at Tiger Woods 10? Whichever the newest game that was coming out, he got to play with Tiger for a few holes (on the Wii I want to say?), and he’s also done product placement for Microsoft’s Bing! Search engine by including it in one of the various games/audience participation things that they do. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-schafer-on-late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-is-this-a-first/512557/5 "2009-10-05T04:31:38Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > Don’t know if it counts as a talk show, but Will Wright was on \*Colbert Report \* in December of 2006. [Link](http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/79040/december-04-2006/will-wright). Do you remember what talk show you saw him in? \*Sim city 2000 \*came out in 1993. I’m thinking it was Conan O’Brian since that was the only late night show I was watching at that point but if I’m remembering incorrectly so it goes. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-schafer-on-late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-is-this-a-first/512557/6 "2009-10-05T04:41:53Z")
Jimmy Fallon’s big on gaming and is determined to treat people in the gaming industry like most folks treat people in the movie industry. [Quote] ([Gaming and Video Game News & Reviews | Engadget](http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/27/fallon-promises-game-premieres-movie-premiere-status/)): > [@](#): > > We’re going to treat a video game premiere as if it was a movie premiere. My generation grew up with the computer. We grew up with the Internet. We live in a video game type of world - video games are second nature to us. Games make more money, as an industry, than the film industry. He’s had [Felicia Day](http://www.wow.com/tag/jimmy-fallon/) on his show and did a video blog with her at one point promoting her webseries The Guild. The interview on his show was funny; from my perspective, the audience seemed a little bewildered when Jimmy and Felicia talked about gaming, as if they weren’t quite following what was going on. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-schafer-on-late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-is-this-a-first/512557/7 "2009-10-05T18:59:09Z")
Here’s a link to the video on the official site, for whenever the YouTube gets pulled: > **[The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - NBC.com](https://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show)** > > Visit the official website for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, broadcast live from Rockefeller Center in New York. Weeknights 11:35/10:35c on NBC.