Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.

That one has to be playing in order to be playing a game seems equally implausible. When professional athletes are performing in assigned games for wages, although they are certainly playing games, we are not at all inclined to conclude from that fact that they are without qualification playing. For we think of professional athletes as working when they play their games and as playing when they go home from work to romp with their children.

There's a difference between fair game and playing games.

I've got Pacman, Galaga, Galaxian, Daytona 500. Those are the games I grew up playing.

In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.

I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.