with Hideo Kojima and met him during a Famitsu interview in late 1999. Metal Gear Solid was the first video game they played after finishing work on The Matrix. Candidates for an adaptation of the first Matrix movie to video game form included Kojima, Bungie and Shiny Entertainment, whose Messiah PC game impressed them. Shiny's David Perry, who ultimately had his company develop and collaborate with them on the Enter the Matrix and The Matrix: Path of Neo video games, was impressed with their familiarity with the medium; this proved helpful during development. The Wachowskis owned both a PlayStation 2 and Xbox video game console and played several games such as Splinter Cell and Halo 2. They reportedly destroyed their Xbox during a Halo deathmatch. Actor Collin Chou recounts an instance of visiting their office and finding them playing video games on the floor. Lilly is a fan of the Death Jr. PlayStation Portable game. Asked about their feelings about turning the tightly controlled Matrix saga to the unpredictable form of an MMORPG with The Matrix Online, the duo appeared enthusiastic about the nature and possibilities of video games: Box office Works Films Television Video games Comic books Music videos The Art of the Matrix book credits them for including their screenplay and additional art. The Wachowskis also wrote an introduction to the 2005 published Vol. 2: Tag trade paperback of Ex Machina comic book, being big fans of it. Additionally Lana Wachowski wrote the introduction to the 2012 published No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics collection of LGBTQ comic book stories. Additionally classifying themselves as "lifelong rabid Bulls fans" they created a revamped introductory animation for Chicago Bulls to open the 2006–2007 regular season. See also List of transgender film and television directors Notes References External links Living people 20th-century American screenwriters 21st-century American screenwriters 21st-century American women writers Action film directors American comics writers American film producers American people of Polish descent American video game directors American women film directors American women screenwriters English-language film directors LGBT film directors LGBT people from Illinois LGBT film producers LGBT comics creators Science fiction film directors Screenwriting duos Showrunners Sibling duos Sibling filmmakers Transgender women Video game writers Whitney M. Young Magnet High School alumni Women and video games Women science fiction and fantasy writers Writers from Chicago Marvel Comics people American women film producers Screenwriters from Illinois American