Luis von Ahn Quotes

When I was a kid, I loved Nintendo.

My favorite thing from my childhood is video games.

I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.

When I was little, we used to have Atari.

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

I was obsessed with Nintendo.

Growing up, I was such a big fan of Nintendo games.

I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.

As a kid growing up, I was a huge gamer - The NES, SuperNES, N64, GameCube - and I had a GameBoy, which went everywhere with me.

When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.

I think, pretty much like everyone around my age, I grew up playing those classic video games. I wouldn't say I was addicted to them, but I definitely liked them.

I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.

I'm an old guy, so I started out playing 'Pong' with my brothers, and 'Mario Bros.' and whatnot. But we really got involved and got intense when 'Tecmo Super Bowl' came out. That's when we really started playing video games, and it got intense.

I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.

When I was super young, I had an Atari and used to play 'Space Invaders.' Then I fell in love with 'Mario Bros.,' 'Sonic the Hedgehog' and 'Yoshi' on Super Nintendo. I was quite a bit of a gamer as a kid when I think about it.

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.

I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around and played 'Astrosmash' for hours on end. It was a big part of my youth.

Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play 'Pong,' a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that.

Most of us grew up with video games in the household, either the original Nintendo in the living room or hoarding quarters for that trip to the arcade. And as time moves on, that line of nostalgia will keep moving forward where 'Frogger' gets replaced with 'Street Fighter 2' or 'Resident Evil 4.'

I'm not really big on video games at all, I played a lot at the arcade as a kid. I didn't have a system growing up at my house.

I grew up on classic Nintendo, which was amazing. My best friends were hardcore into it.

I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.

I've watched with a kind of wary eye how gaming has progressed. I was there at the beginning with Pong in the arcade, and a lot of my great childhood memories were around a 'Tempest' machine.

I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of Zelda' at the time, and it was addicting, and I was playing it for hours and hours and hours.

Games have always a big part of my life. I was that kid freaking out over his new Nintendo.