Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.
Shigeru Miyamoto
Related When I started, people would come to interview me, and just knowing that I worked in videogames - it... YUJI HORII I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the peo... DEMETRI MARTIN Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing. GEOFFREY CANADA Part one: Video games, inappropriate music and such isn't something you can blame on when ignorant t... J C A ROWE Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll. SHIGERU MIYAMOTO Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn't ruine... AARON STATON I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to he... DEMETRI MARTIN We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution... HERB KOHL Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning. NAMIE AMURO To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineer... ELON MUSK The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new e... VIN DIESEL There are big lines between those who play video games and those who do not. For those who don't... SHIGERU MIYAMOTO It feels like there's something for everyone in video games. It's not just a toy for a certa... RICH MOORE I do exercises on my Wii. It's nice to have games that keep you active. It's an excuse to pl... JASON RITTER I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something. PATRICK CHAN I love video games. When I was growing up, video games were very important to me. BEN SCHWARTZ I do a lot of video games - I have a YouTube channel where I record me playing video games with my f... CHANDLER RIGGS There's more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I... JENNIFER HALE My biggest fear was Antoine was trapped in his room. Those video games can be hypnotic. ANTHONY MONK I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thi... ICE CUBE Video games are ubiquitous now. EUGENE JARVIS I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especiall... SPIKE LEE That's really one of the things I love about video games. It's a whole new world every time ... JENNIFER HALE It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves.... JOHN CLEESE Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll. SHIGERU MIYAMOTO Everyone has played video games at some point these days, and video games are fun. PEWDIEPIE In the past, a lot of films based on video games think that the audience wants to experience what it... DUNCAN JONES It is a fact of life for most kids. Video games are far more universal than cell phones right now, a... CARRIE HEETER As far as I'm aware, this is the first study to show that exposure to violent games has effects on t... BRUCE BARTHOLOW Zombies are always moving fast in video games. It makes sense if you think about it. Those games are... GEORGE A. ROMERO Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer. BILL BUDGE I think that as I had children, I have five sons, and they got into video games and were the prime a... JOHN LASSETER Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been. KEVIN GARNETT I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport. And, no, video games don't count. I... EVA LONGORIA Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing ... PALMER LUCKEY It's something you dream about as a kid. Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid ... JOHNNY MANZIEL A lot of people say video games can be stifling. Older people say, 'We had to go outside, and we... KUMAIL NANJIANI Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that peo... T. C. BOYLE Video games are a special kind of play, but at root, they're about the same things as other game... TOM CHATFIELD ...we will continue our efforts to protect kids from violent video games by working with retailers. HEIDI WATSON I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should ... DARREN ARONOFSKY Guess what? There's more and more compelling evidence that if you feed a child a steady diet of Mari... WILLIAM BALDWIN I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just ... QUENTIN TARANTINO My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I stea... CARL CRAWFORD To me, the machinima artform has essentially evolved now into the Let's Play streaming world. Th... BURNIE BURNS Video games spark the imagination, empower the mind, and take you to the place where you have always... JOSHUA CLARKE The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games ar... BILL TOOMEY 'Avatar' was gorgeous. There are good stories in there, but when used in other movies they... LOUIS GOSSETT, JR. The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional. DAN AUERBACH Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games. J ALLARD Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. ... CARROT TOP Many teachers are aware of the importance of video games to schoolchildren but are unsure of how the... DAVID GILES When I'm making video games today, I want people to be entertained. I am always thinking, How ar... SHIGERU MIYAMOTO The most debased forms of mass diversion - video games and violent television dramas and juvenile si... STEVEN JOHNSON We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are wor... TOM BISSELL 'Chronicle' could have been a video-game movie. The original 'RoboCop' and the remak... MICHAEL DE LUCA I'm a huge 'Call of Duty' fan, 'Minecraft' and all those kinds of video games. I... OLIVIA HOLT Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore ... ANDY SERKIS We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those ... JACK WAGNER I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed i... RONALD REAGAN We need to go beyond saying, 'I know what these games do because I see my son playing them,'... DAPHNE BAVELIER I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive. JIMMY FALLON No matter what people say, about what I did, about what I am like... They say you are not dedicated ... YUVRAJ SINGH I grew up with video games and animation. JAMES CLAR We have tons of board games, coloring books and video games to keep them busy. JASON ARTHUR Not to mention (bloggers) get to write about the topic they are most passionate about. So, for our f... JASON CALACANIS There is no question that music continues to play a pivotal role in video games and video games cont... CINDY COOK The more downtime we have, the more time you have to play games like 'Ghost Recon Future Soldier... KEVIN LOVE I didn't get to play many video games when I was growing up. ANA DE ARMAS I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips t... FELICIA DAY Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That's part of what I love about games, that ... RICH SOMMER I love video games. CHANDLER RIGGS There is a small percentage, about 6 or 7 percent (of games) that are rated too violent for children... CHARLES HIRSCHHORN Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. RAY BRADBURY I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure o... WALTER BECKER A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever. SHIGERU MIYAMOTO You know when you bring your voice to different voiceover things like video games and cartoons, and ... BENITO MARTINEZ I think the contest demonstrates that games can not only be entertaining, but beneficial to society ... JEAN MILLER Computer games don't affect kids; I mean, if Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running ar... MARCUS BIGSTROKE Video games are not just entertainment, but a art of deep meditation. ALEX GALINDO Video games is just another invention that increases Violence. So why do we keep making them? GUSLOV PETRONOSKI Computers had their origin in military cryptography—in a sense, every computer game represents the... AUSTIN GROSSMAN As writers, we have to make our own work - as bloggers, writing for video games, whatever we can do.... RANSOM RIGGS I've been a video game guy since I was eight years old and got my first Nintendo. I've been ... A.J. STYLES Any kind of horror video game where I'm the first-person player and I'm... I suddenly stop c... KIT HARINGTON Always trust computer games. RIDLEY PEARSON I can't play video games or games on my phone because I'll go into a deep vortex, and no one... NICK KROLL There's lots of small and large opportunities. I don't think we're fully tapped it out, ... We are t... DAVE MORRIS We know there are good sugars and bad sugars, and we don't discuss whether food in general is go... DAPHNE BAVELIER They're a very good team. They haven't gotten a lot of wins thus far, but they haven't not been in a... KEVIN CORRIGAN So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual pers... SOPHIA BUSH The medium has matured to the point where enough people understand and use [electronic video games] ... IAN BOGOST I play video games, dude!" STEPHAN JENKINS I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV... BILL GATES In my teens and university and stuff, video games became more realistic, or they started to. BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY The only other thing that's like video games for me is watching tennis on TV. I can have it on, ... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA I never play video games! I'm so bad at it. I have, like, no manual dexterity. KELLY HU Video games is the impossible come true. EDWARD HUANG I used to play video games all the time, but now I don't because I don't have an attention s... KING TUFF Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids. TAYLOR KITSCH
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