12 Quotes by Eugene Jarvis


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    In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it.

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    I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

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    I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.

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    The great times are when you put a game on location and see others play it for the first time. After all, we are really kind of an entertainer. You perform for the joy of the audience.

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    I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.

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    I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets.

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