From GoldenEye to Ghost Rider: Tobias "Tejbz" Öjerfalk on Two Decades of Gaming Content

Tobias "Tejbz" Öjerfalk still remembers the exact moment it clicked. He was eight or nine years old, unwrapping a Nintendo 64 he had begged his parents for. The console came with two games: Super Mario 64 and GoldenEye 007. He started with Mario, thought it was fun, then popped in GoldenEye. "Då klickade någonting i mig," he says. "Det fanns inte att beskriva hur ballt det var." That feeling — the combination of a gun-shaped controller, a spy narrative, and the realization that he was better at it than his classmates — set the course for the next two decades.

The Pre-YouTube Era of Gaming Content

Before there was a playbook for making gaming videos, Tejbz was figuring it out from scratch. In the mid-2000s, recording gameplay meant jury-rigging equipment with no tutorials and no guarantee it would work. He describes plugging an Xbox into a capture card through component cables, then watching his computer screen with a delay while trying to play. "Det är ingen passorgt," he says dryly. "Hoppas att det blir rätt."