4,794 Quotes About Games

Games are subject to far more scrutiny than network television or Hollywood films and often are condemned by people who do not play them.

...in my own perilous position, and above all, in the remarkable game that I saw Silver now engaged upon-keeping the mutineers together with one hand, and grasping, with the other, after every means, possible and impossible, to make his peace and save his miserable life.

I am not like people you may have known. I do not play games. I do not make convenient decisions. I am either with you or I do not exist.

As with any game, like most any kids, I was happiest when I was ahead.

I came to the conclusion that Women are not bad, they only learned to play dirty like men, and now men learned to be dramatic like women.

Critical play means to create or occupy play environments and activities that represent one or more questions about aspects of human life . . . . Criticality in play can be fostered in order to question an aspect of a game’s 'content,' or an aspect of a play scenario’s function that might otherwise be considered a given or necessary.

The enactment of critical play exhibits at least three kinds of action: unplaying, re-dressing or reskinning, and rewriting.

A group’s preference for specific activities is one important way values emerge in a culture. The leisure habits of the rich are framed as activities to see and to be seen at. They prove exercise, but no exertion; they are a courtly site of sociality and pleasure.

Critical play is characterized by a careful examination of social, cultural, political, or even personal themes that function as alternates to popular play spaces.