Markus Persson Quotes

We are at a point in the video game industry that the industry is hollowed out. It is out of touch with the zeitgeist, creating sequels and formulaic games over and over again. The energy comes from the indies.

If pushed, though, I'd say that the next stage will be reached when it it's no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980's on the way to that.

I used to be a part-time enthusiast press games writer when I was starting to get into making indie games.

I have immense respect for Unity because they played a key role in establishing this indie revolution, empowering a huge number of people to get into game development.

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

We tried to just convince big publishers like EA or other people to make games like 'Cloud'... It's just almost impossible.

Small developers can compete on creativity not on scale or staff size.... Nintendo is willing to help bring these ideas to life.

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

Only a geek would say this, but my first true love was a game called 'Wizardry'; that was the game that hooked me forever.

Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.

My very first system was the Sega Genesis back when I was 7 or 8 years old. I played that into the ground. Like, my parents had to confiscate it and put it in attic, the whole thing.

Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince of Persia' online.

For 'Minecraft,' it actually started with an isometric strategy game.

We try to make games we want to make for the sake of making fun games and not necessarily to make a profit.

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.

I grew up and went from Nintendo to Super Nintendo to N64 to GameCube to Nintendo Wii to Xbox - I've always enjoyed playing games.

I remember the N64 coming out. That was a beautiful day.

I'm hugely into video games; I always have been. I started on the Sega with games like Sonic, Battletoads, and Tetris... all those old-school games.

I skipped N64, but I got it later when I was older. I got Game Cube first, then N64 after that actually.

Platforms are going to get bigger and bigger. Minecraft and Microsoft are just the tip of the iceberg. You're going to see more and more action in this space. Not just from Microsoft's Project Spark and Sony's LittleBigPlanet.

I love video games. I had a Sega Genesis and a Nintendo 64 growing up, and I've had every 'NBA Live' that has ever come out.

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 really like arcade games and like the '80s and early '90s kind of games, just because there's a real kind of naivete to them, but there's like a real inventiveness to it as well.

Dude, I've been a gamer ever since Intellivision.

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