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Games were not just a diversion, I realized. Games could make you feel. If great literature could exert its power through nothing but black squiggles on a page, how much more could be done with movement, sound, and color?
Sid Meier, Sid Meier’s Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
I like video games, but they’re really violent. I’d like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It’d be called ‘Really Busy Hospital.
Demetri Martin
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.
Marcus Brigstocke
I think it’s fair to say most video games let players experience only eight emotions: anger, panic, dread, surprise, wonder, satisfaction, joy and disappointment. And some games only disappoint.
Scott Rogers, Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design
Ultimately, it was Super Mario Bros. that taught me what remains perhaps the most important lesson of my life. … There is no turning back, only going forward — for Mario and Luigi, for me, and for you. Life only scrolls in one direction, which is the direction of time, and no matter how far we might manage to go, that invisible wall will always be just behind us, cutting us off from the past, compelling us on into the unknown.
Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it’s too easy.
Henry Jenkins
A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.
Jane McGonigal, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
The possibilities are infinite!
Notch, Minecraft Developer
Shall I explain the game? I have to, I’m afraid, even though describing video games is a little like recounting dreams.
Nick Paumgarten
There are no real breaks in video games—no rooms or lounges where the characters go to chill for a bit, reflect on the previous level, take a load off. Depending on the game, you might have to restock inventory, or there could be something text- or scene-based that suspends play to move the story along. But otherwise it’s always a smash cut to the next challenge.
A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
As a kid in the ’90s, I fought goblins and demons. I learned new magic spells and traded in old gear for shiny weapons. Raised rebellions, traveled through time, and rode a whale into space. I became the Dragonmaster and the Hero of Light. Didn’t we all?
Aidan Moher, Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West
Work like playing a video game, we can’t move to a higher level by skipping or being bad at lower levels, the lower levels are made easy to polish our skill sets & analytic skills, like video games, treat even the daily routine work as a preparation to be battle worthy for the tougher stages, never pick & chose the occasion or situation to perform better, just focus & give your best at the current level & life will take you to the next.
Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
Life’s a video game stuck on hardest, no way to save, and no extra lives. Worst part? No manual either.
Marlon Samson
Never judge a book by its cover; a movie by its book; or a video game by its movie.
Ashwin Sanghi
Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn’t video games be an art form?
Sam Lake
The other franchises let you experience the adrenaline and horror of war, or deep fantasy worlds, or pro sports. A Mario game lets you pretend to be a middle-aged chubster hopping onto a turtle shell.
Jeff Ryan, Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America
Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It’s like you’re in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.
Joyce Rachelle
Games have so much freedom. you can go anywhere you want.
Jenova Chen
Everything not saved will be lost. –Nintendo “Quit Screen” message ―
T. Michael Martin
If only I could handle my problems like a video-game style battle against a boss. But there are no power-ups in real life. No FTW moment when I can declare total pwnage. I don’t even know who the bad guys are.”
Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws
When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.
Kevin James Breaux
The gaming world isn’t filled only with violence and depravity. In fact, it’s mostly enchanting.
Naomi Alderman
Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.
Andy Serkis
Education should learn from the positive side of gaming – reward, accomplishment, and fun.
Sebastian Thrun
Gaming brings people together.
Lisa Su
The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That’s the general rule.
Nick Johnson
In summers, after 1 hour of extreme gaming you can use your laptop to iron your shirt.
Neetesh Dixit
Gamers both demand and deserve novelty. They need something new. As a game developer, one of my rules is there will be at least one thing in every game that I worked on that no one on the planet has seen before.
Warren Spector
Everybody wants to game; whether you’re a casual gamer, or you’re an enthusiast gamer, there’s a large market for us.
Lisa Su
My mom didn’t let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It’s all escapism.
Wayne Brady
As others have recently suggested, the term ‘gamer’ is no longer useful as an identity because games are for everyone. These days, even my mom spends an inordinate amount of time gaming on her iPad. So I’ll take a cue from my younger self and say I don’t care about being a ‘gamer,’ but I sure do love video games.
Anita Sarkeesian
