Top 44 Videogames Quotes

I did go through a phase where I played videogames quite often, but I haven’t in a few years.

I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that’s because videogames in general are more diverse now.

I played videogames growing up, but my parents really monitored how much I was playing.

I don’t think anything really consciously went into ‘Legend’ that was influenced by videogames, but I’m pretty sure some of my experiences and love for gaming contributed to a few of the factors that are in ‘Legend’.

More than anything tough, I play ‘Madden’. I’m a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames. I’m really into them.

Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods – so much media. Do books even matter anymore?

Videogames make you feel like you’re actually doing something. Your brain processes the tiered game achievements as real-life achievements. Every time you get to the next level, hot jets of reward chemical coat your brain in a lathery foam, and it seems like you’re actually accomplishing stuff.

I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames.

Instead of focusing on, ‘Oh, there’s a black lady who plays videogames,’ focus on that there’s another person out there who loves the same stuff that you do.

I’m an actor. Whether I’m on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same – although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.

As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively – especially when they are well-designed.

Consumers are freeing up an enormous amount of time that they were spending with stereotypical old media, and clearly, that time is going primarily two places: videogames and online.

Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you’re immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.

Computer-generated monsters – people shoot them all day with videogames, you know, so kids aren’t going to be afraid of that. People are getting immune to scares.

And Duke Nukem, I think he is the most iconic videogame character in the industry. I think Lara Croft is the female and Duke Nukem is the male. Between them, they’re the most iconic figures in videogames.

I worked in videogames for 16 years before writing my first book in 2009.

I love playing videogames.

Well, I’ve been a fan of videogames all my life.

Whatever adults don’t understand, because they didn’t grow up with it, is the thing they’re going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll.

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga.

I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.

A lot of times, for videogames, you get almost no time to prepare with a script. You’ve got a director that’s going line for line, filling you in on what’s happening, and some games are even less than that.

Ordinarily, I develop videogames with female characters that aren’t girlfriends, bimbos and sidekicks.

Basketball is like the one game I can’t figure out when it comes to videogames.

We’re not used to seeing any videogames character express sentiments like fear, uncertainty or remorse.

Writing for videogames is really unique. You learn all the rules of writing, but there’s a whole other set of rules for game writing, and we’re changing them as we move along as well, which makes it more challenging.

I haven’t always been the kind of man who plays videogames. I used to be the kind of boy who played videogames.

I used to play videogames, but I don’t have too much time anymore. I used to have 3DO, but I could never find any games, really. I used to play it all the time. Games like ‘Road Rash.’

There was a time when all the actors were saying, ‘We should get residuals on videogames.’ I just kept going, ‘You don’t have any idea what goes into making a game, do you?’

Libraries have a PR problem – or at least that’s what they call it when no one under the age of 40 walks through the door. To bring in a younger crowd, the paper pushers have turned to tech to bring in the public. DVDs, CDs and, yes, even videogames are hitting the shelves of your local library.

I don’t want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry – directors and producers – are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

I guess I didn’t have a lot of friends, so that’s what made videogames so important. They played back. I could do them myself. Solitaire can’t surprise you; there’s no AI. But videogames play back with you.

I want to see someone like Bobby ‘The Brain’ jumping around in his weasel suit with the rhinestones. Guys who are animated like that make the best translation to TV and to videogames.

Sometimes we think videogames are just games for kids, and then once they get out of grammar school or high school, they never play again, but that’s when they really start playing.

I’m a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames; I’m really into them.

I guess the way I shoot things is slightly influenced by the way videogames are cut and shot.

I know how addictive videogames are – I have friends who can’t get up off the couch because they’re so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.

Kickstarter has shifted from funding creative projects to funding products and videogames; the biggest funded are consumer electronics and video game projects.

Videogames are indeed design: They’re sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

Videogames based on golf have often been viewed as, to mangle a phrase, a good walk through a virtual world spoiled. Connecting with your virtual golfers has often been as hard for gamers as understanding the sport itself.

To allow our audiences to watch more professionally produced video content, we acquired Major League Gaming – MLG – and we expect MLG to become the ‘ESPN of Videogames’ with a focus on the celebration of gamers, both amateur and professionals.

I’ll take a couple of breaks for some food, but other than that, that’s pretty much all I do is play videogames and practice with my team.

Everything we have today that’s cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero movies, iPods: All are continuations of a love that wanted more.