Computer Games Quotes

• I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Art, Games, Literature

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• The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  New Experiences, Games, People

  "The Year In Violence" by Michael Thomsen, www.ign.com. December 18, 2007.

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• Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

  Kristen Wilson

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• Computers had their origin in military cryptography-in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.

  Austin Grossman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Military

  Austin Grossman (2013). “You”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'

  Demetri Martin

  Character, Men, Games

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. January 14, 2007.

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• Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.

  Toyo Ito

  Running, Children, Games

  "Japanese architect on brink of stardom" by Nicolai Ouroussoff, www.sfgate.com. July 26, 2009.

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• 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

  Games, People, Age

  "Andy Serkis on Enslaved and acting in video games". Interview with Jack Arnott, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2010.

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• I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.

  Gareth Bale

  Games, Play, People

  "Gareth Bale's best friend ditches job and girlfriend to join footballer at Real Madrid" by Nick Dorman, www.mirror.co.uk. September 8, 2013.

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• We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative

  Herb Kohl

  Children, Games, Negative

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• It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you’re not playing games.

  Jane McGonigal

  Thinking, Playing Games, Loner

  Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.63, Penguin

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• Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

  Taylor Kitsch

  Kids, Games, Video

  "No Way But Up". Interview with Scott Quill, www.menshealth.com. 2007.

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• Computer games are like any other form of media and entertainment - you have to exercise some moderation. In the same way you can invest a lot of time in a computer game, you can invest a lot of time in watching TV or browsing the Web. So it's an issue of recognizing that this is something you should consume in moderation.

  Frank Pearce

  Exercise, Media, Games

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.

  Gary Gygax

  Games, Play, People

  "Dungeon Masters in Cyberspace" by Seth Schiesel, www.nytimes.com. February 27, 2006.

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• Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own I hate them with a passion.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Children, Hate, Passion

  "The joy of traditional games" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• If you look at the whole world now it's just computer games, graphic novels, film, TV spinoffs, spinoffs of spinoffs like Deadpool spinning off of Wolverine. So I think that any kind of smart producer looks at all of those bases. Once it comes down to the integrity of it audiences are very smart, they smell that they're just kind of being played.

  Sam Worthington

  Integrity, Smart, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it!

  Scott Adams

  Games, Ideas, Design

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• Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Girl, Boys, Technology

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• Although I am not averse to wasting a few hours playing computer games, I have never tried my hand at Doom. Judging by sales figures and testimonials, playing the game has to be an infinitely preferable experience to watching this pathetic excuse for a movie.

  James Berardinelli

  Hands, Games, Judging

  "Doom (United States/Czech Republic, 2005)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net. 2005.

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• Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are losing money, doing their best to survive. It's a sign of the times, the emergence of new kinds of entertainment -- there's nothing we can do about it. I don't think books will perish for good. They could become less widespread, though, falling even further behind movies and computer games. But we shouldn't be afraid of this, because books will always remain the entertainment of choice for intelligent people, of whom there are still many in this world.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Book, Fall, Intelligent

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• To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Depressing, Laughter, Sight

  "The joy of traditional games" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• I'm doing the same thing and it's a hundred times bigger and a hundred times better. So if your going to make a computer game off a movie, is it going to be like "Avatar" where it's going to be a prequel before Jake even got to the planet. You've got to be smart because audiences demand that.

  Sam Worthington

  Smart, Games, Jake

  Source: collider.com

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• Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young with something so much greater than they are; it offers an environment where they can easily contemplate infinity and eternity.

  Richard Louv

  Beautiful, Nature, Games

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.

  Rosamund Pike

  Fate, Games, Computer

  "Bodice ripper" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2005.

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• I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.

  Roberta Williams

  Games, Circles, Appreciate

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• Always trust computer games.

  Ridley Pearson

  Games, Computer

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