Quotes about Video Games
A lot has been said about video games over the years, and even more has been said in video games. Here are the absolute quotes about video games.
Quotes About Video Games
“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 Quotes about video games
“I know, it’s hard for you when I’m not around, my love. But I am climbing a palm tree, all right?”
― Hank Green Quotes about video games
“Always trust computer games.”
― Ridley Pearson Quotes about video games
“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
“What greater weapon is there than to turn an enemy to your cause? To use their own knowledge against them?”
― Bastila Shan Quotes about video games
“Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it.”
― Jane McGonigal
“And it’s not like I’ve never jacked off. I’m fifteen years old. Of course I do it. Any guy who says he doesn’t is lying. That would be like having the coolest video game ever and never playing it. No one’s that stupid.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes
“Hard fun is, of course, the idea that we take pleasure in accomplishing something difficult: the joy in meeting and mastering a challenge. As a result, when someone is doing something that is hard fun, moment by moment it looks more like “work” than “fun,” but the net effect is pleasurable overall.”
― David Williamson Shaffer
“I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower ofAmerica’s masculinity can’t think of anything more important to do with twenty hours a week than sit in front of a video screen? Folks, this ain’t normal. Can’t we unplug already?”
― Joel Salatin, Folks, This Ain’tNormal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
“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
“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
“We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.”
― Tom Bissell
“My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that’s it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I’d loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance7
“When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.”
― Kevin James Breaux
“She looked like a character from a video game. One of those improbably busty, impossibly well-armed superchicks who could do acrobatics and hit the kill zone even while firing guns from both hands during a cartwheel.
“You look fucking ridiculous,” she told herself.”
― Jonathan Maberry, Dead of Night
“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