Retro is losing its meaning. Let’s explore how to salvage the term by reflecting upon gaming history together!
Consoles
Vote for the GOAT! It’s the LAST poll of Soundtrack Showdown so help us decide which soundtrack to crown the GOAT OST!
Time to cast your vote for the best multiplat soundtrack from our selection of player-nominated nominees! Which OST will be crowned the GOAT?
Multiplatform games (AT LAUNCH) get their time to shine! What’s the best multiplatform video game soundtrack?
Let’s play a game! How many systems can you name your favorite exclusive for? Let’s talk about system exclusives in gaming!
Certainly, I’m sure you’re very busy and I’m very busy and maybe we don’t have as much time to play games as we would like. But my hope is that with Nintendo Switch being a system that you can play at home and bring with you, we’re going to be able to find more of those moments where we’re able to play the games that we all enjoy and be able to enjoy them that much more.
-Yoshiaki Koizumi
Don’t be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
-Akio Morito, founder of Sony
Vita means Life
-every Vita fan, always.
Above all, video games are meant to just be one thing: Fun for everyone.
-Satoru Iwata
We have always attempted to do things differently. Our vision has taken us to unprecedented levels of success and innovation. Just keeping up with conventional technology is not enough for us.
-Kaz Hirai
The Xbox 360 is the first console that I’ve ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we’ve had on PC.
-John Carmack
Aside from being the “first” next-gen console, as well as providing many, many people with their first DVD player, the PlayStation 2 launched in something of a Golden Age of the non-PC gaming industry. Gaming tech was becoming extremely sophisticated … Sony seemingly knew the exact route toward popularity, turning the console with the least powerful hardware of that generation into a juggernaut of success.
-James Plafke, ExtremTech
This is the Walkman of the 21st Century. -Ken Kutaragi Hey, NPCs! Welcome to…
The DS represents a critical moment for Nintendo’s success over the next two years. If it succeeds, we rise to the heavens, if it fails, we sink into hell.
-Hiroshi Yamauchi
Xbox has been created by gamers for gamers.
-Don Mattrick
Please understand, I am not trying to say technology is unimportant. But if we are just focusing on technology… we will not succeed.
-Satoru Iwata
This isn’t fun anymore…
-Zero, Mega Man Zero 2
One of the reasons that older gamers mourned the loss of the Dreamcast was that it signaled the demise of arcade gaming culture … Sega’s console gave hope that things were not about to change for the worse and that the tenets of fast fun and bright, attractive graphics were not about to sink into a brown and green bog of realistic war games.
-1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, Duncan Harris
The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, ‘Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.’
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Saturn will go down in history as one of the most troubled, and greatest, systems of all time.
-Greg Sewart, 1UP
“…many video game companies [feel] that in the near future, the video game platforms to contend with will be from Nintendo, Sega… and Sony.”
-GamePro, 1994
Videogames were for everyone; they just didn’t realize it yet.
-Blake J. Harris, Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
So I’m glad we went after an older audience, developed the first rating system, helped form the Industry Association and the E3 show and passed Nintendo in share of market for a period of time which opened up the business to others.
-Tom Kalinske
Sega does what Nintendon’t!
-The edgiest slogan of all time
Now, there are no limits.
-Master System slogan
I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing ‘Legend of Zelda’ at the time, and it was addicting, and I was playing it for hours and hours and hours.
-Robin Williams
We need to build computers for the masses, not the classes. -Jack Tramiel, founder of…
“We wake and whisper awhile,
But, the day gone by,
Silence and sleep like fields
Of amaranth lie.”
-Walter de La Mare
“What is your Favorite Video Game Controller?”
“What is your Favorite Video Game Console?
