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Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars. -- John Maeda
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. -- Chris Hardwick
Guys that play videogames are hot! -- Nikki Ziering
Well, I've been a fan of videogames all my life. -- Michael Strahan
Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted. -- Carlos Alazraqui
Videogames need more women and are too reliant on male, stubble-covered heroes. -- Rhianna Pratchett
Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable. -- Ernest Cline
... Gunpei Yokoi, asked his boss, 'What should I make?' Nintendo chief executive Hiroshi Yamauchi replied, 'Something great.'Game Over Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Videogames -- David Sheff
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. -- Rob Manuel
When I hear young people today complain about being bored - and the things that keep them from being bored are generally exclusively videogames and/or computer pastimes - I just try to encourage them to go outside. -- Nick Offerman
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. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
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. -- Douglas Rushkoff
When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames. -- Olga Kurylenko
I never let any of my sons beat me at videogames. -- Coolio
I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames. -- Larry Ellison
I'm not one of those guys that's a purist when it comes to videogames. -- Martin Starr
Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore? -- Mo Rocca
I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now. -- Tara Strong
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. -- John Maeda
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. -- Jason Kidd
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. -- Nolan North
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. -- Olga Kurylenko
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. -- John Madden
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. -- Patton Oswalt
I'll go out, but I leave early, before the shenanigans. I don't really do the Hollywood party thing. I'd rather watch sports or play videogames or work out or sleep, to be totally honest. -- Cory Monteith
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?' -- Nolan North
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. -- Tim Schafer
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'. -- Marie Lu
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. -- Warren Spector
We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest 'must-haves', whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they 'have' to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Growing up, I played 'Ken Griffey, Jr. Baseball' and just whatever I could get my hands on. When I was really young, I was a big fan of Mario and that type of stuff. I still play videogames now, so it was really cool for me to be able to play as myself on '2K6' or '2K7,' I believe it was, when I was a rookie. -- Justin Verlander
As I am ageing, naturally, how I want my videogames to be played must be changing. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames. -- Douglas Rushkoff
There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types. -- John Romero
We know that drugs, sex and rock and roll stimulates something called dopamine in the brain. So do videogames. Dopamine is something that we crave. -- Devra Davis
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. -- Jason Kidd
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. -- Marc Andreessen
I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who cant get up off the couch because theyre so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in. -- Olga Kurylenko
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. -- Josh Trank
When I play videogames I'm trying to go deep every pitch. I'm definitely not going to try to do that in real life. In the (video)game I'm trying to leave the yard. -- Dustin Pedroia

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