“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein
Year: 2016
This is the first time I’m giving the world a chance to speak into this process. If you have played a scary game and can think of some pee-pee releasing music that you think should make it onto a list of the Top 20 scariest video game music ever, then leave the name of the song and the game it’s from in yon comments below!
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
“Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.”
-Eric Hoffer
“Under the earth I go,
On the oak-leaf I stand,
I ride on the filly that never was foaled
And I carry the dead in my hand.”
-Hamish Henderson
This is what Tolkien would have wanted: a cheap button-mashing adaptation of a cheap cash-cow of his epic fantasy magnum opus. He’s probably rolling in his Catholic urn.
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”
-Richard Puz
“Live your own life, for you will surely die your own death.”
– Latin proverb
“Me and you and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it had to be
The only one for me is you, and you for me
So happy together”
-The Turtles
“The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” -James Truslow Adams, Epic of America
“I am not teaching you how to fight. I am teaching you how to control evil.”
-Grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi
“Americans… are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
While it might be chic to express displeasure at Nintendo nowadays, we’ve got good reason to this time.
“You mustn’t allow yourself to be chained to fate, to be ruled by your genes. Human beings can choose the kind of life that they want to live. What’s important is that you choose life… and then live”
-Naomi Hunter, Metal Gear Solid
“We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
—World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.”
-Arthur O’Shaughnessy, Ode
“To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.”
-Eugene Jarvis
“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”
― Neil Armstrong
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Don’t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.”
-Scott Joplin
“Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
-Billy Shakespeare
“The fact that I, myself, do not understand the meaning of my paintings at the time that I am painting them does not mean that they have no meaning.” – Salvador Dali
We need your help with this list of 200 video games to play before you die!
“Ring the bells that still can ring / Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in.”
-Leonard Cohen
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
-Arthur C. Clark
