Traditional Games Quotes

As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.

Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games.

I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

I still remember with gratitude a series for children on everyday life where we learned about the games children in other times had played and the food they ate.

It's taken years for people to figure out how to make good content with a gamepad, even though they've been using gamepads for decades to make traditional games.

You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously. "I'm afraid not," I said. "I'm afraid not, sir," he said. "Well," he told me, "it is, along with gladiator fighting and Pac-Man, one of the greatest games ever invented by humans. I would expect all civilized young men to know the rules.

We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

Casino games are the one kind of content that has stood the test of time for decades.

I don't travel with them, but they can't be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes... I used to play with my family - dad, my grandpa, my uncles.

My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Everybody knew something that they could do - a song or a poem, or a piece of music. At school, I remember being a cat and then a budgie and then a bumble bee. I obviously thought all that was marvelous.

Facebook is terrifying to the traditional games biz.

When we used to live in a chawl during our childhood, we would play Holi with water balloons.

Nowadays you never see players playing cards. We used to sit around playing cards together all the time. But I can't fight that, I have to adapt and change.

We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

We did lots of fun normal-kids stuff.

As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint.

Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!

In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

I try not to do traditional games.

There's no more fun. All that digital stuff - we used to do that crap for real! I hate that stuff. Young kids who play video games seem to like it, but I don't.