The Xbox 360 is the first console that I’ve ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we’ve had on PC.
-John Carmack
Aside from being the “first” next-gen console, as well as providing many, many people with their first DVD player, the PlayStation 2 launched in something of a Golden Age of the non-PC gaming industry. Gaming tech was becoming extremely sophisticated … Sony seemingly knew the exact route toward popularity, turning the console with the least powerful hardware of that generation into a juggernaut of success.
-James Plafke, ExtremTech
This is the Walkman of the 21st Century. -Ken Kutaragi Hey, NPCs! Welcome to…
The DS represents a critical moment for Nintendo’s success over the next two years. If it succeeds, we rise to the heavens, if it fails, we sink into hell.
-Hiroshi Yamauchi
Xbox has been created by gamers for gamers.
-Don Mattrick
Please understand, I am not trying to say technology is unimportant. But if we are just focusing on technology… we will not succeed.
-Satoru Iwata
HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!
My wife asked me what I wanted to do this weekend for Father’s Day and I thought about it… then a grin crept onto my face and I began writing this article.
Riffing on the anti-predictive post I crafted for the upcoming Smash Bros. Ultimate, here are like a billion honorable mentions that just couldn’t make it on my list of 24. Thank the internet for these (except for Altered Beast; I made that one)! Hire me, Nintendo.
Happy Father’s Day weekend!
-The Well-Red Mage
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This isn’t fun anymore…
-Zero, Mega Man Zero 2
The Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage does his best to get to grips with Cultist Simulator, but gazing too long upon the Old Ones has been known to cause loosened grips…
One of the reasons that older gamers mourned the loss of the Dreamcast was that it signaled the demise of arcade gaming culture … Sega’s console gave hope that things were not about to change for the worse and that the tenets of fast fun and bright, attractive graphics were not about to sink into a brown and green bog of realistic war games.
-1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, Duncan Harris
Marvel: “Avengers Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover in history!”
Me:
The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, ‘Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.’
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
Moonlighter asks the real questions: What happens when the lights go out in a normal RPG item shop? How do they get their wares?
The Saturn will go down in history as one of the most troubled, and greatest, systems of all time.
-Greg Sewart, 1UP
“…many video game companies [feel] that in the near future, the video game platforms to contend with will be from Nintendo, Sega… and Sony.”
-GamePro, 1994
Videogames were for everyone; they just didn’t realize it yet.
-Blake J. Harris, Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
So I’m glad we went after an older audience, developed the first rating system, helped form the Industry Association and the E3 show and passed Nintendo in share of market for a period of time which opened up the business to others.
-Tom Kalinske
“Teach a man to fish and he’ll have learned how to fish. Teach a man to wish and he’ll never be satisfied.” Wisdom for E3.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Alright break it up, you two! Oh, hang on. This isn’t an argument. Gadzooks! It’s a wholesome conversation between two intellects on the subject of gaming and Sega. Imagine that. Checkmate internet.
Sega does what Nintendon’t!
-The edgiest slogan of all time
Now, there are no limits.
-Master System slogan
Tired of the fast lane? Shape of the World is simple recreation, accessible entertainment, picturesque at best, and easy going.
I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing ‘Legend of Zelda’ at the time, and it was addicting, and I was playing it for hours and hours and hours.
-Robin Williams
We need to build computers for the masses, not the classes. -Jack Tramiel, founder of…
“… Now now wait just a moment don’t you start thinking that magic will solve all your problems!”
-Merlin
This oceanic shmup can sate even the most earnest yearnings for exploration, but is there anything worth discovering in its simplicity?
The cycle of crafting and exploration remains unbroken but is there more to Smoke and Sacrifice than the Loop?
White Night gives you enough space to feed the experience with your own imagination. Are you afraid of the dark?
I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They’re worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.
-J.Cornell Michel, Jordan’s Brains: A Zombie Evolution
