Above all, video games are meant to just be one thing: Fun for everyone.
-Satoru Iwata
Games
We have always attempted to do things differently. Our vision has taken us to unprecedented levels of success and innovation. Just keeping up with conventional technology is not enough for us.
-Kaz Hirai
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
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
This isn’t fun anymore…
-Zero, Mega Man Zero 2
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
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
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
Sega does what Nintendon’t!
-The edgiest slogan of all time
Now, there are no limits.
-Master System slogan
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…
“Pulvis et umbra sumus.”
(We are but dust and shadow.)
-The Odes of Horace
The problem with people is that they’re only human.
-Bill Watterson
“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.”
-Louis Armstrong
“Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”…
“It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…”
Friday’s TWRM Radio “Hearth”, a collection of town and city themes for homesickness.
This new series is dedicated in loving affection to the great musical artistry of gaming.
“Video games are bad for you? That’s what they said about rock n’ roll.”
-Shigeru Miyamoto
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
2 years, 552 posts, and 1,132,132 words later… The Well-Red Mage is now entering Year Three!
Over two dozen wordsmiths lent their voices to this collaborative project, which must certainly be among the largest and most diverse undertakings ever to honor Final Fantasy in writing.
People who play video games have been shaped and affected by the popular perception of that medium.
