Early Gaming Quotes

It was probably 'Contra' - 'Contra' was the game that really got me into video games.

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 remember as a kid seeing Pong in a pizza place where I grew up in Oxnard, California, and having my mind blown by it. I thought it was a TV. I thought it was just something playing on a television. But then to be able to manipulate the paddle, and the ball with the knob was, in those days, pretty huge to a little kid! It was a simpler time.

A friend of the family gave me a Game Boy when I was very little, and it was amazing.

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

When I was a child, there really weren't very many video games, but I do have memories of 'Pong.' Maybe it was 'Pong.' It was a home system in Japan, so maybe it wasn't the real 'Pong.' It was just sort of a Japanese game that was similar to 'Pong.'

For me, the very first video game I ever played would have been 'Return of the Jedi' on the Atari 2600.

My first encounter with video games was pretty conventional. I was travelling with my parents - we used to take long cross country trips in the United States every summer - and we went into a restaurant where there happened to be a Pong machine, and I was... a lot of quarters went into that Pong machine, let's just say.

I am absolutely of the videogames generation, starting on the Atari and Commodore 64 and the Amiga.