VIDEO GAMES QUOTES
quotations about video games
Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock and roll.
SHIGERU MIYAMOTO
attributed, Geek Wisdom
I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.
RONALD REAGAN
speech, August 8, 1983
Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it.
JANE MCGONIGAL
interview, Wired, February 11, 2010
The destructive effects of video games are not on boys' cognitive abilities or their reaction times, but on their motivation and their connectedness with the real world.
LEONARD SAX
Boys Adrift
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
stand-up routine
I think that if someone plays a video game, and then goes out and harms another human being, or themselves because of what they just saw in the video game, they were screwed up in the head long before they got their hands on a controller.
TIM BUCKLEY
interview, GameCore, March 4, 2005
Most people think video games are all about a child staring at a TV with a joystick in his hands. I don't. They should belong to the entire family. I want families to play video games together.
SHIGERU MIYAMOTO
Business Week Online, November 7, 2005
I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.
ERNEST CLINE
Ready Player One
Video games are the quintessential social texts of our present cultural moment.
STEVEN E. JONES
The Meaning of Video Games: Gaming and Textual Strategies
Critics of the game industry frequently leap to the conclusion that video games are the cause of any tragedy, such as the Columbine school massacre, that involves young men and violence. However, the fact is that the vast majority of U.S. males age 14 to 34 have played video games. If the mere act of playing a game is to be considered statistically significant proof of a causal relationship, then games can be linked to just about anything--including acne, adolescent flirting, and the rising cost of gasoline. We are more persuaded by evidence that the Columbine shooters had been subject to consistent bullying than by the underwhelming coincidence that they--like everyone else their age--had played games.
DAVID EDERY & ETHAN MOLLICK
Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business
Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.
RAY BRADBURY
Salon, August 29, 2001
Video games and films are starting to look more like each other. The graphics are so spellbinding and real. People playing video games are like filmmakers--you can control the dream in your own living room. You create your own destiny; you become your own author.
ADAM RAPP
interview, Bomb Magazine, spring 2006
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
Live at the Apollo
Games are transforming the brains of people who play them in largely positive ways.
JANE MCGONIGAL
interview, Wired, February 11, 2010
For all the talk about the merging of film and video game, and for all its inevitability, perhaps the secret of true convergence lies not in an external reality, but in an internal truth: What kids seek from video games is what we all seek from our own distractions--be they movies, radio, comic books, literature, or art: an escape from the mundane to the sublime, where our imaginations make of us heroes, lovers, warriors, and gods.
DEVIN C. GRIFFITHS
Virtual Ascendance: Video Games and the Remaking of Reality
Games support happiness ... by giving us more satisfying work or concrete tasks that we can accomplish.... Studies have shown that playing a short game -- having something concrete that you can accomplish -- actually gives you the motivation, energy and optimism to go back and tackle real work.
JANE MCGONIGAL
interview, Wired, February 11, 2010
Show me your children's games, and I will show you the next hundred years.
HEATHER CHAPLIN & AARON RUBY
Smartbomb
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
interview, April 25, 2004
Even if you remove the many [video] games that attempt to tell stories from the equation, just about all of the rest become stories the moment we begin to play.
ROBERT B. MARKS
"Video Games Aren't Just Better With Stories, They Are Stories", CGMagazine, May 1, 2017
You know what's really exciting about video games is you don't just interact with the game physically -- you're not just moving your hand on a joystick, but you're asked to interact with the game psychologically and emotionally as well. You're not just watching the characters on screen; you're becoming those characters.
NINA HUNTEMANN
Game Over