Tom Bissell Video Quotations

Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.

When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad.

Sport-based video games occupy an odd space within the sphere of modern home entertainment. Reliably enjoyed by millions, the sport-based video game stands at what sometimes feels like an oblique angle from the larger medium, and in ways that can be hard to articulate.

I mostly associated video game storytelling with unforgivable clumsiness, irredeemable incompetence - and suddenly, I was finding the aesthetic and formal concerns I'd always associated with fiction: storytelling, form, the medium, character. That kind of shocked me.

I'm an Old Media guy. I don't have a website; I don't Twitter. I love magazines, yet I love video games. It's a strange disconnect.

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.