In a recent interview with Gamasutra, Warren Specter touched on the technology vs. content debate in video games, saying "Stop building movie sets and make a world we can interact with instead".

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I still routinely play Angband. Although now days I'll willingly use tiles instead of ASCII. That game taught me how to use 10-key.