Video games Quotes

The effect of video games on the brain [is] very similar to the effect of wine on the health.

Action video games have a number of ingredients that are really powerful for brain plasticity, learning, attention, vision.

Violent video games are a rape against the soul and cerebellum of the untainted and sensitive psyche of any human.

I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort.

Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid.

I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing.

Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

I recently learned something quite interesting about video games.

Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

The impact of violent video games upon children is not as clearly established as the impact of violent television programming. Young children possess an instinctive desire to imitate actions they observe, without always possessing the intellect or maturity to determine if such actions are appropriate. Due to their role-modeling capacity to promote real world violence, there is deep concern that playing violent video games, with their fully digitized human images, will cause children to become more aggressive toward other children and become more tolerant of, and more likely to engage in, real-life violence.

Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad.

I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.

I was a very happy child, so to speak.

But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.

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

My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences.

With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

I like video games, but they are very violent.

I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'

Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.

If I had a day to myself I would just play video games with my brothers.

I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.

It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in - that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.

I am terrible at video games and I am really competitive.

And if I am not the best at something, I go absolutely crazy!

I used to be a video game freak, but I've kind of like eased back.

I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I'm gonna do after the race, what I'm gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race.

The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean.

A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it.

That was banned from my childhood experience.

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games.

It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.

I felt like I was living in some sort of video game and people pre-empting every move I made, obviously as a result of accessing my private information.

My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do.

Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.

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.'

We turn off the TV, video games and computer - except for homework - during the week. The TV's reserved for Friday night, Saturday and Sunday just because that's the time to do homework, and it makes it that much less chaotic in our house.

I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then.

We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games.

But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative.

I'm a video game fan. I played them before I became an actress.

A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. Grammy's here! he shouts. He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounces back over the roof, into the front yard, landing on a rosebush.

I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport.

And, no, video games don't count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself.

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.

Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.

Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion.

I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari.

I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business.

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

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.

Gotham Games called me, and I could not be more thrilled.

I've been waiting to be in a video game forever, so when they called there was no hesitation.

Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.