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“Space Invaders went on to set record after record after it invaded the planet. More than four hundred thousand arcade cabinets were made, and the game pulled in more than 3.8 billion dollars by 1982. If you factor in inflation, that would be THIRTEEN BILLION DOLLARS today, making it one of the highest-grossing video games of all time. Yeah. Billion. With a B!”
― Dustin Hansen, Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft and More

“Being a kid in 1978 was pretty amazing. Not only were arcades on the rise, but Garfield, that lovable lasagna-eating orange cat, was in just about every newspaper across the country, Superman was in theaters for the first time, the Bee Gees were topping the music charts with songs from Saturday Night Fever, and The Incredible Hulk was the number one TV show in America. Like I said, it was a good time to be a kid.”
― Dustin Hansen, Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft and More

“Fight the good fight: clean and fair.”
― Jon Taffer, The Power of Conflict: Speak Your Mind and Get the Results You Want – A Strategic Toolkit for Arguing Smarter by Bar Rescue's Jon Taffer

“There are a lot of stories about where the name Donkey Kong actually came from—everything from a bad fax that made the Nintendo of America team misread Monkey Kong, thinking the M was a D, to its being named after King Kong. But in the end, Miyamoto said it was simpler than that. They wanted an English name because they knew the game would be a hit in America. The word donkey was used to imply something silly, or dumb, and in Japan, kong is a slang word used for an ape. Basically, Miyamoto and crew were naming the game Silly Ape, but they felt Donkey Kong was, well, just more fun to say.”
― Dustin Hansen, Game On!: Video Game History from Pong and Pac-Man to Mario, Minecraft and More