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
I’m incredibly nostalgic for the ’80s, because I think that’s when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear. – Ernest Cline
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
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
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
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. – Ernest Cline
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
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
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
I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80. – Ernest Cline
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
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
I have to avoid things like ‘World of Warcraft’ or ‘Minecraft’, otherwise I’d never get any work done. – Ernest Cline
