David Crane Quotes

I miss video games where the jump-kick was the trickiest combo to master.

When I was a kid, I used to love to play 'Dig Dug.' It was, like, this little dude, where he digs in the dirt and makes tunnels.

Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.

I am a kid from the '70s, when video games first started coming out, so I definitely have to say I am a video game junkie to this day.

I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!

Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive.

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.

'Pong' hit the fancy. It was sort of the perfect storm of a game which has two players highly social, a game that women could play better than a guy, and sort of an acceptance of this social nature of games in a bar.

I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.

My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office.

I beat 'Super Mario Bros 1,' '2,' and '3.'

The first home system we had was an Apple II, and I remember playing a game called 'Conan.' It should have been called 'Tarzan' because you were essentially Conan running around a forest with a boomerang, but it was obviously Tarzan.

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

Super Mario RPG was one of my very favorite games when I was a kid.

In the early '80s, the arcade game Pac-Man was twice as popular as oxygen.

'Mortal Kombat' was an ill game. I would always be either Reptile or Scorpion. Those dudes were ill. We used to stay up all night playing.

'Dragon's Lair' was real ill.

What's wrong with 'Mario Bros. 3?' Not a damn thing.

The first-person shooter genre owes itself to 'Duke Nukem.'

To play 'Tetris' is to knowingly opt in to something that has no end and no way of winning.

I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.

I did the original Robotron game back in 1982. To me it's still one of the classic 2D games as far as action and decisions per second, and kills per second, and explosions per second. It's super-frenetic and totally involving. There's been a lot of games since, a lot of Robotron sequels. A lot of them haven't even captured the magic of Robotron, much less moving things forward.

Pac-Man? Or is it Donkey Kong?” In truth, it looked a little more violent and military. A slow grin spread over his face. “Baseball. Think maybe you could stand behind me and give me a few pointers?

When we decided to make 'DMC5,' one of the things we said off the bat is, 'Let's make a new character.'