Retro
“Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes ofman.”
-Proverbs 27:20 [ESV]
“Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams a forever.”
-Walt Disney
A Link to the Past is often considered the best game in the entire Legend of Zelda series, but why? What makes this SNES title so good?
“You take the blue pill; the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill; you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.”
-Morpheus, The Matrix
“We don’t need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They’re always with us.”
-Lloyd Alexander
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ―Edmund Burke
“If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.”
-Ursula K. Le Guin
“It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“I’m afraid of coaching, of writer’s classes, of writer’s magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble – you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.”
-Robert A. Heinlein
“Remember kid, there’s heroes and there’s legends. Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.”
-The Babe
“Mr. Gorbachev… let my people go.”
-Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States
“Always winter but never Christmas.”
-C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
“Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain death – the seas bear only commerce – men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world is quietly at peace.”
-General Douglas MacArthur
“I don’t particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I’m somewhat sceptical of the technology.”
-Christopher Nolan
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
-Arthur C. Clark
Super Mario 64 was one of the defining games of its generation, system, and genre, but do its inner mechanisms hold up under scrutiny?
