How to Talk about Videogames (Volume 47) Quotes

“Perhaps in another few thousand years, the aliens who take over our planet will note the quaint and weird sport of Association Football, an ancient forerunner to whatever becomes their modern foot-and-ball game. Perhaps it will be played with the heads of vanquished humans.”
― Ian Bogost, How to Talk about Videogames

“Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk-flavored chewing gum.”
― Ian Bogost, How to Talk about Videogames

“The Blue Shell is everything that’s wrong with America.”
― Ian Bogost, How to Talk about Videogames

“The Blue Shell is the cruel tax of gaming, the welfare queen of kart racing. God damn you kids today. We used to have to win a race to win it.”
― Ian Bogost, How to Talk about Videogames