Ralph H. Baer Quotes

I've always wanted to get involved with designing a video game.

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

When I'm making video games today, I want people to be entertained. I am always thinking, How are people going to enjoy playing the games we are making today? And as long as I can enjoy something other people can enjoy it, too.

I'm in the business to make games - I love entertaining people.

I just wanted to make video games.

So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them.

As the CG in motion capture made it look realistic, it put more of an onus on the game makers to make the dialogue they're saying more realistic. It doesn't matter what they say when they're 8-bits, but if they look almost photo-real, it matters. More and more, the games industry is realising that.

People are tired of just watching their TV set passively. They are playing interactive games today. They are on the Internet interacting. They want to be part of their TV set.

Game design is a funny thing. There are people out there who are really good at it, but it's not clear that they can teach it. It's a very intuitive process. It's an art.

I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.

Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.

I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.

The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.

Video game fans are like nothing else. You can do so many movies or so many TV things, but video games is where there is just everyone.

I would love to make video games.

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

You can't just watch people type all day, and you can't really show screenshots of code and make it interesting in any way.

What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.

I have a couple of games I've wanted to make in the 'Tobuscus Adventures' universe.

Making a website is similar to making a movie-hundreds of people work on it, one person makes the final decision, and they make them every minute of the day.

I kind of 'code-sketch,' where I get started with a project by actually writing the code for it and getting something up on the screen. Then I play around with it and see if it's any fun and change the parts that aren't.

Video games are an exciting medium. The creativity of design, the technology and the interaction represent the best of American innovation.

God of War' was a 40-60 person team. It was a lot of very different, very passionate, very crazy people.