Playing Games Quotes - Page 3

• Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Exercise, Golf

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• Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

  Jane McGonigal

  Reality, Games, Disconnected

  Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.67, Penguin

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• It seems like what happens when we play games is that we go into a psychological state called eustress, or positive stress. It's basically the same as negative stress in the sense that we get our adrenaline up, you know, our breathing rate quickens, our pulse quickens.

  Jane McGonigal

  Stress, Breathing, Pulse

  "Can Video Games Solve Real Issues?". "TED Radio Hour" with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. May 21, 2012.

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• Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity, it's called Xbox 360.

  Don Mattrick

  Xbox, People, Able

  "Gamers Without Internet Can Stick With Xbox 360, Says Microsoft" By Luke Reilly, www.ign.com. June 11, 2013.

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• I would like to take the opportunity today to thank you for your assistance in helping us to reshape the future of Xbox One. You told us how much you loved the flexibility you have today with games delivered on disc. The ability to lend, share, and resell these games at your discretion is of incredible importance to you. Also important to you is the freedom to play offline, for any length of time, anywhere in the world.

  Don Mattrick

  Xbox, Opportunity, Important

  "XBox One, Netflix, Charles Schwab: Why Consumer Collaboration is Key in Business". www.wired.com. June 2013.

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• Except for its backward compatibility with existing Wii software and accessories, we have so far failed to make propositions worthy of Wii U's position as a successor to the Wii system.

  Satoru Iwata

  Accessories, Wii, Worthy

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• We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games.

  Robert A. Kotick

  Fun, Real, Years

  "Bobby Kotick Wants to Take the Fun Out of Making Games" by Andy Chalk, www.escapistmagazine.com. September 15, 2009.

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• I think I just have an idea in my head about how big an adventure game should be, so it's hard for me to design one that's much smaller than Grim Fandango or Full Throttle. There's just a certain amount of scope needed to create a complex puzzle space and to develop a real story. At least with my brain, there is.

  Tim Schafer

  Real, Adventure, Thinking

  "Press Start: Double Fine kickstarter lacks cash, Japan to get Xbox One in 2014, and more" by Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2013.

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• PlayStation 4 won't impose any new restrictions on used games. This is a good thing... When a gamer buys a PS4 disc, they have the rights to that copy of the game.

  Jack Tretton

  Rights, Gamer, Good Things

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• Most snarky critics had their minds set before ever seeing/playing the game. I'm proud of what we created; it's innovative, responsive & fun.

  Tony Hawk

  Fun, Mind, Proud

  Twitter post from Dec 5, 2009

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• I'm glad to see the casual game play coming back now on the Internet, games that aren't violent, that aren't complex that you can sit down and you can have some fun.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Fun, Down And, Internet

  "Pong: The Ping Heard 'Round the World". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. December 2, 2007.

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• Now it's been fifteen years, nine games, and an enormous blast to undertake. If it were my choice, I would do this role forever. To hear anyone else's voice coming from Snake's battered throat, makes me a little ill, to be honest.

  David Hayter

  Games, Snakes, Voice

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• Waltes is still played, which is a bowl and dice game that's traditional for this area.

  Richard Dyer

  Dice, Casinos, Stills

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• Video games provide an easy lead-in to computer literacy. They can get you thinking like a video game designer and can even lead to designing since many games come with software to modify the game or redesign it.

  James Paul Gee

  Thinking, Computer Literacy, Design

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• ...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even though boys' games are much the same, they are punished for them by their elders. No one pities either the boys or the men, though surely we deserve pity, for I cannot believe that a good judge would approve of the beatings I received as a boy on the ground that my games delayed my progress in studying subjects which would enable me to play a less creditable game later in life.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Boys, Men

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• I love the idea of expanding the universe of games to some extent. At one point, they were kind of limited to boys, fanboys and whatever. I like the idea of liberation for games.

  James Patterson

  Boys, Ideas, Kind

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• When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, thats not interesting to me.

  Julianne Moore

  Interesting, Tablets, Computer

  "Julianne Moore On ‘Freckleface Strawberry,’ Kids And The Definition Of Bullying" by Emma Mustich, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2013.

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• I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.

  Curt Schilling

  Years, Gamer, Hard Core

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• Disguise is central to God's way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because the God who is beyond our knowing makes himself known in the disguise of what we can know. The Christian word for this is revelation, and the ultimate revelation came by incarnation. ... God is the master of disguises, in order that we might see.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Christian, Order, Knowing

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• Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

  Ernie Banks

  Baseball, Way, Another Way

  Sports Illustrated, August 23, 1982.

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• I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They've been a great inspiration to me.

  Ernie Banks

  Running, Baseball, Mother

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• We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

  Eric Hoffer

  Education, Teaching, Accomplishment

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• With pro-gaming that's one of the toughest parts - living game to game.

  Jeremy Lin

  Games, Gaming

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• We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Moving, Role Playing, Roles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What does NOT work best for anyone, though, is being forced to keep a Windows partition around just to play video games. The best operating system for playing games is the one that lets you keep your word processor, instant messenger, email, and music player open in the background while you play. The worst is the one that will force you to shut all that down just to screw around for a few minutes.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Player, Doe, Video

  "Ryan C. Gordon and Michael Simms (3. Ryan C. Gordon - Part II)". Interview with Robin Heggelund Hansen, www.tek.no. March 10, 2009.

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