Videogame Quotes

“I've discovered a new video game called owning my home.”
― Dan Harmon

“Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.”
― Tom Bissell

“An ancient gate, sealed by the powers of Light and Darkness, barred the way to the Pillars beyond. To depart this place and continue my journey, I would have to find the means to open it.”
― Amy Hennig

“Games are subject to far more scrutiny than network television or Hollywood films and often are condemned by people who do not play them.”
― Mary Flanagan, Values at Play in Digital Games

“As history has shown, any new computing device capable of running a game will, by hook or by crook, soon have them available. (aka, the "Loguidice Law")”
― Bill Loguidice Matt Barton

“As history has shown, any new computing device capable of running a game will, by hook or by crook, soon have them available. (aka, the "Loguidice Law")”
― Bill Loguidice, Vintage Game Consoles: An Inside Look at Apple, Atari, Commodore, Nintendo, and the Greatest Gaming Platforms of All Time

“Many are quick to dismiss those who pursue the arts, insisting a degree in one useless or a vow of poverty appropriate, yet wouldn’t want to live in a world without music, literature, television, or videogame.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker

“Everything has value only when ranked against something else; everyone has value only when ranked against someone else. Every situation is win-lose, unless it is win-win—a situation where players are free to collaborate only because they seek prizes in different games. The real world appears as a video arcadia divided into many
and varied games.”
― McKenzie Wark, Gamer Theory

“Everything is digital and yet the digital is as nothing.”
― McKenzie Wark, Gamer Theory

“Once games required an actual place to play them, whether on the chess board or the tennis court. Even wars had battle fields. Now global positioning satellites grid the whole earth and put all of space and time in play. Warfare, they say, now looks like video games. Well don’t kid yourself. War is a video game—for the military entertainment complex. To them it doesn’t matter what happens “on the ground.” The ground—the old-fashioned battlefield itself—is just a necessary externality to the game.”
― McKenzie Wark, Gamer Theory