“There was a game that I looked at called ‘Wolfenstein’ [pronounced as Wolfen-steen]—I probably shouldn’t be bad-mouthing another game, but—I looked at this, and, uh, I found it certifiably demented. I mean, here’s this thing were, you know, people get large holes BLOWN in them as they run around in catacombs, with Nazis! And I thought, ‘Well... probably this was not the end result of us getting the opposable thumb.’ ”

  – Harlan Ellison, answering the question, “What computer games have created an impression on you?”