Playing Games Quotes - Page 3

• We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.

  Jane McGonigal

  Civilization, Humanity, Desire

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• Gaming has kind of evolved a bit. More people play on portable devices. Where we might go in the future, we'll see. Customers love games. I'm not interested in being in the console business in what is thought of as traditional gaming. But Apple is a big player today and things in the future will only make that bigger.

  Tim Cook

  Player, Apples, People

  "Apple CEO Tim Cook in the Hot Seat at D". Interview with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, allthingsd.com. May 29, 2012.

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• PlayStation 4 won't impose any new restrictions on used games. This is a good thing... When a gamer buys a PS4 disc, they have the rights to that copy of the game.

  Jack Tretton

  Rights, Gamer, Good Things

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• Video games provide an easy lead-in to computer literacy. They can get you thinking like a video game designer and can even lead to designing since many games come with software to modify the game or redesign it.

  James Paul Gee

  Thinking, Computer Literacy, Design

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• Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity, it's called Xbox 360.

  Don Mattrick

  Xbox, People, Able

  "Gamers Without Internet Can Stick With Xbox 360, Says Microsoft" By Luke Reilly, www.ign.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.

  Jesse Schell

  Games, Age, Demographics

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• Except for its backward compatibility with existing Wii software and accessories, we have so far failed to make propositions worthy of Wii U's position as a successor to the Wii system.

  Satoru Iwata

  Accessories, Wii, Worthy

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• I would like to take the opportunity today to thank you for your assistance in helping us to reshape the future of Xbox One. You told us how much you loved the flexibility you have today with games delivered on disc. The ability to lend, share, and resell these games at your discretion is of incredible importance to you. Also important to you is the freedom to play offline, for any length of time, anywhere in the world.

  Don Mattrick

  Xbox, Opportunity, Important

  "XBox One, Netflix, Charles Schwab: Why Consumer Collaboration is Key in Business". www.wired.com. June 2013.

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• Role-playing games are contests in which the players usually cooperate as a group to achieve a common goal rather than compete to eliminate one another from play.... Role games ... bring players together in a mutual effort.

  Gary Gygax

  Player, Goal, Effort

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• Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.

  Gary Gygax

  Exercise, Rpgs, Roots

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• I'm glad to see the casual game play coming back now on the Internet, games that aren't violent, that aren't complex that you can sit down and you can have some fun.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Fun, Down And, Internet

  "Pong: The Ping Heard 'Round the World". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. December 2, 2007.

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• When we are playing [games], we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and healing our feelings.

  Candace Pert

  Healing, Emotional, Feelings

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• Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

  Jane McGonigal

  Reality, Games, Disconnected

  Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.67, Penguin

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• Gamers co-author the games they play by the choices they make and how they choose to solve problems, since what they do can affect the course and sometimes the outcome of the game.

  James Paul Gee

  Games, Play, Choices

  "10 Truths About Books and What They Have to Do With Video Games" by James Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2011.

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• Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Exercise, Golf

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• ...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even though boys' games are much the same, they are punished for them by their elders. No one pities either the boys or the men, though surely we deserve pity, for I cannot believe that a good judge would approve of the beatings I received as a boy on the ground that my games delayed my progress in studying subjects which would enable me to play a less creditable game later in life.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Boys, Men

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• In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys' bodies change and that changes everything else. But the memories are not erased of that safest time in the lives of men, when their prime concern was playing games with guys who just wanted to be their friendly competitors. Life never again gets so simple.

  Frank Pittman

  Memories, Boys, Simple

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• ... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games, while I was supposed to be doing mathematics. Then, when I discovered surreal numbers, I realized that playing games IS math.

  John Horton Conway

  Science, Math, Numbers

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• A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.

  Alan Beck

  Girl, Mom And Daughter, Motherhood

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• Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

  Ernie Banks

  Baseball, Way, Another Way

  Sports Illustrated, August 23, 1982.

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• I love my home, just playing games and just sleeping. No matter where you go, nothing is better than sleeping.

  Rain

  Home, Sleep, Matter

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• Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.

  Jason Isaacs

  Jobs, Kids, Simple

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• I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around and played 'Astrosmash' for hours on end. It was a big part of my youth.

  Roger Craig Smith

  Dad, Youth, Remember

  "Interview With Roger Craig Smith, the Voice of Batman, Captain America, and More!". Interview with Mike Cecchini, www.denofgeek.com. August 10, 2013.

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• Also, any older song, especially any World War II songs remind me of Mama. She goes around the house either whistling or singing all the time. It drives my sister Alice crazy when we're playing games and Mama does that while it's Alice's turn!

  Reba McEntire

  Song, Crazy, War

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They've been a great inspiration to me.

  Ernie Banks

  Running, Baseball, Mother

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