As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative – as watching someone else’s story – and much more toward enacting one’s own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.
When gamers can play a game together with all of their friends, regardless of the devices they own, you have a much more compelling social experience. That applies to all multiplayer games.
I’ll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can’t play games his whole life.
We typically don’t choose our athletes until about a month prior to the Games because anything can happen.
I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.
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.
If I’m a guy reading a newspaper, and I hear this actor who I know gets great seats at basketball games, and he’s complaining about being typecast, I think, ‘Hey man, count your blessings.’
Most one run games are lost, not won.
As long as there are games to play it is not over.
Epic will manually curate the Epic Games storefront rather than relying on algorithms or paid ads.
I like poems that are little games.
I still want to see the Lin-Lee rivalry; those games always bring great fun for the fans.
There are no easy games.
I’m precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise.
I have figured out it’s not what you do on the field, it’s how many games you play in.
I’m going to do the Commonwealth Games for no other reason than national pride. It’s something special getting to ride for the Isle of Man.
Gamers have this tendency to turn games into mathematical equations, breaking them into lists of components like ‘presentation’ and ‘mechanics’ and judging each one on its own merits.
When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, that’s not interesting to me.
Right now we’re working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we’re developing Civilization IV and we’ve got a couple other games in development that we’ll tell you about soon.
I think death is a crucial element when designing games around the theme of the satisfaction of overcoming overwhelming odds.
We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.
I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.
After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
I’m not a very fancy person. I’ve been a writer a long time, and right now ‘The Hunger Games’ is getting a lot of focus. It’ll pass. The focus will be on something else. It’ll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.
The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.
If you’re going to win games, you’re going to have to come up with the big hits. That’s the bottom line.
The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.
No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that.
No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.
Video games are bad for you? That’s what they said about rock-n-roll.
I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids’ games instead of my own. I’m excited to start the next chapter of my life.
All of us have to win games. Whether we like it or not, the graduation rates and all the things people are talking about aren’t as important as winning.
When I was growing up, I was an ’80s baby, so I remember the Sega Genesis and the first Nintendo. I grew up in a time when we first started playing video games on a computer screen. Now there are headsets and your body’s the controller.
I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.
I’m a season ticket holder to the Washington Wizards, and I love going to Washington Nationals and Redskins games.
I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied.
It has been a fantastic journey. I have gone to five Games, broke the Olympics record in 2004 in Athens and won a gold medal as well in Beijing. I have had a good run at the Olympics.
As a co-chair of the State’s 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.
The guys who play in midfield and up front are the ones who decide games.
I create, for whatever reason, a busy schedule, but I watch hockey, all the games, either on the PC or TV. The world is now HD, and this is very good.
After I read ‘The Hunger Games,’ I went out and got ‘Catching Fire’ the next day.
My only goal is to play 162 games and help this team win. If I can do that, everything will take care of itself.
All of world’s eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can’t. The good thing is, they’re really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don’t go to.
There’s nothing in the Bible that says, ‘You must play video games.’
Like most celebrities, of course, I adore all the Mario games.
Video games are ubiquitous now.
I’m in the business to make games – I love entertaining people.
Kids just don’t read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It’s just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population.
The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
When football is your job, a lot of what you feel about yourself and about life can become attached to the outcome of those games. That’s probably true about a lot of jobs, but we suffer our losses pretty publicly. When you’re not getting the results you want, it becomes easy to get depressed.
A manager’s job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
I’ve always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence – qualities older women possess. They’ve been on the Earth a little longer. They’re more seasoned. They don’t play games. They know what they want, and they’re not afraid to tell you.
Dominicans, Nicaraguans, and even the already highly skilled Cubans greatly improved their baseball skills when occupied by U.S. troops. The only acceptable resistance to a hated American presence was to try to beat them in baseball games.
I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.
Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
I love retro culture. I love retro games; I love retro music.
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
I am not against cricket, but it is dominating this country. All other games are finished, because the media shows cricket 24 hours a day, the papers are full of cricketers’ photographs.
I’ve seen 48 Stanley Cups in my life. I was about six or seven when I started going to games with my dad.
I grew up with my little brother, and we were raised by my grandmother. I was an insider for real. I stayed in the house a lot, writing songs or playing video games, watching TV, or chilling with my girlfriend.
Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.
I think the reason that I like so many different games is because I like the way my brain works when I’m playing games. It’s more fun.
Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.
No matter how much you’ve won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you’re not winning now, so you stink.
This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, ‘What are you doing this Saturday?’ and they’ll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, ‘Man, I’m really into remote-controlled steamboats.’
