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Computer Games Don't Affect Kids...
Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 (?)

"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."

-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian

"It is my Joke. I wrote it, then I took the rest of the day off as I was so chuffed with it."
-- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 (apocryphal)
-- Karen Price, Nintendo Representative (apocryphal)
-- k10k (?)

[Erowid note: This quote has been distributed with a variety of attributions. A visitor wrote to us about Marcus Brigstocke's claim to being the originating author. The attributions to Nintendo Employees and others are now considered apocryphal. If anyone knows of any other claims of authorship or knows of any documentation of any performances or publication of the joke, including location, date, etc please let us know at corrections@erowid.org.]