Graham Nelson Quotes

For me, seeing the progression of video games and consoles - whether it be PlayStation, Xbox, or whatever - I think just seeing how good they've gotten from the days when I first started playing is just amazing.

In my teens and university and stuff, video games became more realistic, or they started to.

I grew up with video games. My generation kind of grew up with the Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. Then, I had a Dreamcast and, finally, the PlayStation. So yeah, I've always been a big gamer.

PlayStation consolidated the second wave of gaming. There was a slack period before it came when nothing much was happening.

Gotham Games called me, and I could not be more thrilled. I've been waiting to be in a video game forever, so when they called there was no hesitation.

Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career.

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.

If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is going to be totally useless in the next.

We are at the point where game designers have become celebrities due to the size of the market they serve.

In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well borne out - is that in the '80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.

I'm part of that original generation that came up playing video games, that pumped a lot of our allowance into video games. We financed the rise of video games. I started playing them in the Straw Hat Pizza Palace at the Carriage Square Mall in Oxnard, CA.

I like technology, but the blockbuster games use it for the same thing over and over again.

I've been a video game guy since I was eight years old and got my first Nintendo. I've been addicted to video games ever since.

We see that as 'Fortnite' evolves, it's evolving beyond being a game.

Videogames have existed for almost 40 years now, yet every year, we see major and unexpected advances.

I think Zelda 64 is utilizing about 90 percent of the N64 potential, ... When we made Mario 64 we were simply utilizing 60 to 70 percent. So we have come a long way I believe.

The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal.

I've played a lot of games - I started very early, and the first 50 games were just warm-up games.

I think it's safe to say that 'Half-Life' was influenced by every first person action game that preceded it.

Games change by the different creatives that get involved and say, 'I have this crazy idea.'

Here's a hypothesis I seriously believe: If there hadn't been a 'Pokemon' game, maybe the market for handheld game devices would have gone extinct.

People will buy hardware just to buy a single game if the game is really compelling.

'Heavy Rain' was my baby, my reason to live, and my oxygen for four years. And seeing the successful release of the game has been the most extraordinary reward I could have dreamt of, after years of working in the dark.

It's awesome to see other games picking up on battle royale, adding their unique spin to it, and advancing the state of the industry.

When I started, I wanted probably to make games that were inspired by films that I liked.