Comments on: Quote? Misquote? Cite?

By: “Games” Versus “Experiences”

“Games” Versus “Experiences” — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:21:42 +0000

[...] anticipated my lack of enjoyment in this way. I believe it has something to do with the lack of meaningful choices that can be made – there’s really nothing novel to which I can look forward on my own [...]

By: Daniel Klein

Daniel Klein — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:15:16 +0000

So we know that he did say it at GDC, but we still don’t have the original context, do we? I mean the actual full sentence. Thanks for the heads up!

By: Press Fire to Start » No Spore to Stand the Test of Time

Press Fire to Start » No Spore to Stand the Test of Time — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:23:56 +0000

[...] that sentence, although he could have saved a lot of bandwidth/breath by just saying Guitar Hero. Troy Goodfellow tries to track the quote down but doesn’t fare much better than me. Guess there are things Google doesn’t know the [...]

By: Patrick Hightower

Patrick Hightower — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:12:49 +0000

If anyone is near Stanford, the answer may be found in the Green Library, if it actually originated at GDC. Gamasutra’s archive only goes back to 2000, but the library at Stanford may have the proceedings further back:

Conference Proceedings / Computer Game Developers Conference. Available from 1997 on in Green Library, some vols in print (GV1469.15 .C65), others on CD-ROM.

By: Alan Au

Alan Au — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:42:19 +0000

I know I had paraphrased the “interesting choices” bit as early as 2001, although I can’t remember where I first heard it.

I haven’t dared to actually reproduce the saying as a direct “quote” from Sid, although I wouldn’t be surprised if he had uttered those words at some point, given that he probably gets asked about it a lot.

By: Jason Lefkowitz

Jason Lefkowitz — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:54:12 +0000

Aaaaaand here’s the link.