History Quotes / JustOneMoreLevel

-->--'''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}''''

->''"I decided to take it home to see what all the buzz was about. Big mistake. For the next few months, I spent every possible moment playing the game. Sleeping only a couple of hours a night, I would stay up 'till dawn playing, wake up minutes later and get right back into it. I was even going home from work at lunch to get a hurried hour in. It got so bad my roommates had a "talk" with me. Finally, I finished my first game, and proceeded to stumble about for weeks after, [[ParanoiaFuel having paranoid delusions that aliens really were invading Earth]], [[TheTetrisEffect cautiously looking for a flashing red 'enemy in sight' warning in my peripheral vision.]]"''

->''Fucking ''{{VideoGame/Minecraft}}''. I have tried my best to see the good in ''Minecraft''. 'It's Legos, but digital! YOU CAN BUILD ANYTHING!' And it's true: I would rather have the kids playing ''Minecraft'' than fucking ''CandyCrush'' or some other brain-eating shit-wheel of a game. But try getting a child to STOP playing ''Minecraft''. It's like trying to pry a fucking lion away from dinner. I have seen people cry less when having their actual children ripped away from them. It's just a game, dear. And I spent the majority of my childhood waiting for gaming platforms that did NOT use shit-ass block graphics. You should really take advantage of the new technology.''

->"Have you ever thought about who you are in this? Are you the man in the pot, Diogenes? Are you his hand? Are you the top of his hammer? I think not: Where your hand moves, the hammer may not follow
Nor the man, nor the man's hand. In this you are his ''will''. His intent. The embodied resolve in his uphill ascent."

->''"I hate this game, but why am I playing it? Well, that's the question everyone has asked themselves. They all have the same reason; because you're angry and you wanna win. You wanna ''[[ManVersusMachine beat the Nintendo]]''--but the cold fact is that nobody cares but you."''

->''"The grotesque brown sludge of dirt, salt, and snow will pile upon the curbs and all the yuppies and helicopter parents will look up and shout 'plow us!' and I will look down and whisper '[[{{ComicBook/Watchmen}} Shut up, I'm playing video games.]]'"''

->''"Fucking ''{{VideoGame/Minecraft}}''. I have tried my best to see the good in ''Minecraft''. 'It's Legos, but digital! YOU CAN BUILD ANYTHING!' And it's true: I would rather have the kids playing ''Minecraft'' than fucking ''CandyCrush'' or some other brain-eating shit-wheel of a game. But try getting a child to STOP playing ''Minecraft''. It's like trying to pry a fucking lion away from dinner. I have seen people cry less when having their actual children ripped away from them. It's just a game, dear. And I spent the majority of my childhood waiting for gaming platforms that did NOT use shit-ass block graphics. You should really take advantage of the new technology."''

->''"It does come with a ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' hat, which will help explain to people why you disappeared for several months and returned as a manatee."''
-->--'''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}'''

-> ''"I started playing at around noon, and emerged from my room sometime later to find that the authorities had declared me legally dead."''
-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]''' on ''VideoGame/{{Peggle}}''

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It was the ultimate compliment. Puzzle-addled students hated me because they were too tired to study for their exams. Business professionals hated me because they were blurry-eyed on the job. And even a pair of newlyweds hated me because I ruined their honeymoon.

->When I attended the [=MacWorld=] Expo to promote ''VideoGame/TheFoolsErrand'' in 1988 and ''3 in Three'' in 1991, people marched up to me, pointed accusing fingers, and shouted, '''"I HATE YOU!"'''\\

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-->--'''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2011/01/walter-pretending-dirty-harry.html Phil Sandifer]]'''

->''"It does come with a ''{{World of Warcraft}}'' hat, which will help explain to people why you disappeared for several months and returned as a manatee."''

-->-- '''[[http://www.gamespot.com/x-com-ufo-defense-1993/reviews/x-com-ufo-defense-review-2531954/ Gamespot review]]'' of ''{{X-COM}}: UFO Defense''

->''"My ''non''-American viewers (who understand that [[WeAllLiveInAmerica the world does not consist only of a single nation]] sailing across an infinite sea of Mexican migrant workers) will no doubt have heard that the water around Brisbane got sick of waiting for people to come hit the beach and decided to bring the party to us. I don't keep up with the news, though, so it was only when I emerged blinking from my grotto and saw that the sandbag fairy had visited all the good little shop doorways that I found out that the central business district had flooded.\\\
'Oh, goody! That means I can go back inside and keep playing ''{{Minecraft}}''![='=]"''
-->-- '''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'''''

-> ''"Did you like playing XCOM, Yahtzee?"'' What was that? Sorry, I couldn't hear you, I was too busy playing XCOM.
-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]''' on ''VideoGame/XComEnemyUnknown''

->''"It does come with a ''{{World of Warcraft}}'' hat, which will help explain to people why you disappeared for several months and returned as a manatee."''
-->--'''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}'''

-> ''"... I started playing at around noon, and emerged from my room sometime later to find that the authorities had declared me legally dead."''
-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]''' on ''VideoGame/{{Peggle}}''

->''"Fluffy dog on feet this morning, tongue flicking against bare ankle. This town is indifferent to me. I have seen its true face. The streets are little-used curves of residential development and the developments are full of the new rich and when the storm sewers are finally snowed over, it's going to get very muddy. The grotesque brown sludge of dirt, salt, and snow will pile upon the curbs and all the yuppies and helicopter parents will look up and shout 'plow us!' and I will look down and whisper '[[{{ComicBook/Watchmen}} Shut up, I'm playing video games.]]'"''
-->--'''P[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2011/01/walter-pretending-dirty-harry.html hil Sandifer]]'''

->''"I'd slide off some janky geometry into lava and the '[[HaveANiceDeath hilarious]]' Commander would insult me and I'd fantasize about impaling the voice actor on an ocean liner piston [[AssShove butthole-first]], but then I'd slam the reload button and furiously nod my head in time with the loading screen music and try again. Y'see, I get angry, but 'angry' is not 'bored'. Angry'' '''gets shit done'''."
-->-- '''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''', ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad''

->"You wait ages for a turn-based fantasy-themed strategy game to come along and then you miss the bloody bus you were supposed to catch because you haven’t got around to putting your pants on yet because it’s vitally important that you take just one more turn, and then just one more turn after that, and, seriously, forget it, I don’t even know where the bus is going anyway and all my pants are at least as far away as the other side of the room, and there’s an ogre eating my livestock."

->[[HypeAversion At first I didn't get it.]] (...) I decided to take it home to see what all the buzz was about. Big mistake. For the next few months, I spent every possible moment playing the game. Sleeping only a couple of hours a night, I would stay up 'till dawn playing, wake up minutes later and get right back into it. I was even going home from work at lunch to get a hurried hour in. It got so bad my roommates had a "talk" with me. Finally, I finished my first game, and proceeded to stumble about for weeks after, [[ParanoiaFuel having paranoid delusions that aliens really were invading Earth]], [[TheTetrisEffect cautiously looking for a flashing red "enemy in sight" warning in my peripheral vision.]]

-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]''' on ''VideoGame/{{Peggle}}''

-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]''' on ''VideoGame/XComEnemyUnknown''

-->-- '''[[http://www.gamespot.com/x-com-ufo-defense-1993/reviews/x-com-ufo-defense-review-2531954/ Gamespot review]]'' of ''{{X-COM}}: UFO Defense''

-->-- '''Rock Paper Shotgun''' (referencing ''Elemental: Fallen Enchantress'')

-->-- '''RockPaperShotgun''' (referencing ''Elemental: Fallen Enchantress'')