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In a zombie apocalypse movie, nobody's ever seen a zombie movie. Or in an alien invasion movie, nobody has ever seen an alien invasion movie, like 'Independence Day.'
- Ernest Cline
#Alien
#Day
#Independence
#Nobody
#Zombie
I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.
- Ernest Cline
#Generation
#Late
#Love
#Nostalgia
#Turn
I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.
- Ernest Cline
#Childhood
#First
#Got
#Most
#Until
I've never really collected anything other than old Atari cartridges. I only had, like, 12 Atari games as a kid, so at some point in my 20s I decided I was going to own all of them.
- Ernest Cline
#Anything
#Never
#Old
#Own
#Point
Before I became a full-time writer, I worked in tech support in those giant cubicle farms you see. I was surrounded by people who played video games all the time - sometimes actually in the call centers, playing online multiplayer games. I saw friends of mine who began to feel that going online was more compelling to them than real life.
- Ernest Cline
#Feel
#Life
#Support
#Time
#Video Games
I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.
- Ernest Cline
#Avoid
#Done
#Never
#Work
#World
I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.
- Ernest Cline
#Because
#Culture
#High
#Nostalgic
#Think
I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.
- Ernest Cline
#Began
#Decade
#Me
#Old
#Years
I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'
- Ernest Cline
#Brand
#Internet
#Silly
#Think
#Youth
It's weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too.
- Ernest Cline
#About
#Develop
#Video Games
#Way
#Weird
I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like 'Back to the Future' and 'Star Wars' - movies that became classics.
- Ernest Cline
#Back
#Future
#Movies
#Time
#Unique
Once the people of planet Earth are all hanging out together online in a virtual world without any borders, I think it could change social networking, entertainment and even politics.
- Ernest Cline
#Change
#Earth
#Politics
#Together
#World
I've wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydream. Like owning the 'A-Team' van or something.
- Ernest Cline
#Always
#Old
#Own
#Silly
#Something
My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office.
- Ernest Cline
#Black
#Game
#Sitting
#Tiger
#Time
I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '80s. Saturday morning cartoons like 'Star Blazers' and 'Robotech.' Live action Japanese shows like 'Ultraman' and 'The Space Giants.'
- Ernest Cline
#Action
#Culture
#Live
#Morning
#Space
I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote 'Snow Crash' in the early '90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet.
- Ernest Cline
#Birth
#Computers
#Home
#Internet
#Science
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