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" 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. "

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Nobody

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.' "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done. "

" Personally, I'm kind of swirling in this hurricane of virtual reality because of 'Ready Player One.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Gibson wrote 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter, you know, before the technology he was writing about existed. "

" 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

Silly

Always

" I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem. "

" I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80. "

" 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. "

" Everything you could ever want to happen happened to me when 'Ready Player One' came out. "

Ernest Cline

Everything

You

" 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. "

" I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "