Jo Garcia: Playboy Cyber Girl of the Year 2008 or Fanatic Gamer?

22 May 2008

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Posted by:Ferry

Jo Garcia is both! She’s just a girl of course and while she may be hotter than the 51 other Playboy Cyber Girls of the Week, this Cyber Girl of the Year 2008 would rather be a game tester. Kotaku asks if Jo Garcia is an actual gamer and not just using the words “really big into [PC, DS, PSP and console] games” to drive web hits to Jo Garcia at Playboy.com.

She replies: “People don’t understand that that the whole gaming world is not just for geeks, and assume that every person who plays video games is a geek that wears glasses,” Garcia said. “It’s a misnomer that needs to be put to rest.” After mentioning that most people act surprised when she says she plays video games, she goes “If I could get a job… being a game tester, I would do that all day long.”

Her favorite games? “I love RPGs that tell stories,” she said, listing the Final Fantasy series, Radiata Stories and the Xenosaga trilogy among her favorites. I like those games because they have a lot of sidequests,” Garcia said. “You can build up your character doing small things. I’m 100 hours into FFXII and I’m not even done with the game yet. I’m doing all the hunts and the sidequests – I’m probably a third into the game and my guys are at level 60. I hold my characters high so when I go through the game it’s a lot easier.”

But did she get the Zodiac Spear? “I actually got the Zodiac Spear the first time I played it… you have to go through hell to get that spear, but I happened to get it the first time because someone told me about it. You can’t open certain boxes, but then you have to go through and fight that nasty esper at the end… I died three times before I actually beat it.”

According to Garcia, one of Hugh Hefner’s favorite rooms at the Playboy Mansion has a broad museum of old arcade cabinets. After seeing it on her first tour, Garcia decided to spend her visit hanging out in there. “I was in there probably the whole time I was at the house, because I wanted something to do,” she said. “I almost finished the whole Donkey Kong while I was there.”

Picture credit to Jo Garcia’s page at Playboy (NSFW).