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- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.
- Ready
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally, I'm kind of swirling in this hurricane of virtual reality because of 'Ready Player One.'
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the whole history of cinema, we've been experiencing movies and television through a two-dimensional, letterboxed window. But once you can start programming entertainment for all the different senses, it becomes a wholly different medium.
- Nov 07, 2020
Gibson wrote 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter, you know, before the technology he was writing about existed.
- Inspiration
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, a lot of early VR worlds or universes that are coming online take inspiration from 'Ready Player One.' It's just the coolest thing ever.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always obsessed with the 'Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai,' this weird little cult movie. There was this promised sequel before the end credits - 'Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League' - and I knew instinctively they were never going to make that movie, because the first one had made, like, $8 at the box office.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Fanboys' was the first real screenplay that I ever wrote that was an original story with my own characters.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still tell people, 'I'm pretty sure I'm the only 'Star Wars' fan in history to ever break into Skywalker Ranch by writing a movie about breaking into Skywalker Ranch.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a book, you can describe a scene and have any song you want playing on the radio and have any painting you want hanging on the wall. That was really freeing to me when I was writing 'Ready Player One.' I could throw in everything that I love.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I watch 'The Matrix,' I think that it is possible, but I don't think that it's going to be machines enslaving humans.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything you could ever want to happen happened to me when 'Ready Player One' came out.
- Cusp
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm surprised that VR has come about so quickly. It's lucky I just happened to write a book imagining virtual reality right on the cusp of it actually happening.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
VR really changes everything for flight because the old simulators for the PC were 2D, and you couldn't look around inside the cockpit and learn the controls or even track other planes through the cockpit.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even think I was quite a year old. My mother was maybe seven months pregnant with my little brother. I was sucked out of her arms, and she landed 75 yards away from our trailer and had a ruptured disc. The tornado set me down on top of this pile of corrugated lumber and scrap metal.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're hanging out with your friends, you reference books and movies, and you don't always know if your friends know what you're referencing. But you throw it out there, and if it connects, it makes people laugh.
- Video Games
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have such a vivid memory of seeing science fiction movies and going to the lobby and playing whatever the space games were, and imagine I was blowing up the Death Star.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020