“Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.”
-Eric Hoffer
SNES
“The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” -James Truslow Adams, Epic of America
“I am not teaching you how to fight. I am teaching you how to control evil.”
-Grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi
“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”
― Neil Armstrong
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
-Arthur C. Clark
“What is your Favorite Video Game Controller?”
“What is your Favorite Video Game Console?
“Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
Macho, macho man,
I gotta be a macho man!”
-Village People
“To me, Final Fantasy IV was the first game that made me cry.”
-Tomoya Asano, producer of Final Fantasy IV DS
“Monster is a relative term. To a canary, a cat is a monster. We’re just used to being the cat.”
-Dr. Henry Wu
I never dreamed that motherhood would be as simultaneously beautiful and terrifying as it…
Strip off your BVDs and throw your pants back on because today we’re running with Captain Commando and his “Commando Companions”. I kid you not, that’s canon.
Super Metroid is an iconic and foundational landmark in the history of gaming. Plumb the subterranean depths of this critique with me.
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” -Lord John Dalberg-Acton
Super Mario World deserves all the accolades, praise, and awards heaped upon it for decades and here’s why…
Today, I’d like to talk about an element of video gaming that is virtually not to be found among the classics. This is something that is a thorn in the side of modern gamers, something that reeks of calculated, corporate greed.
“I have an idea for a movie called ‘The Walken Dead’ which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.”
-Robin Williams
“Another world exists that I must experience. A genus of people exists who I must meet. I must inhale the air they breathe–share their world at all costs.”
-Hideo Kojima
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
