Craig Mazin never said this at all. The closest source I could find on it is a seemingly bot generated article about a sarcastic tweet that someone made about him.

Philomena Cunk on video games

It's frustrating how people in charge are so far away from reality.

Remember when Kathleen Kennedy said that writing for Star Wars is hard because there aren't any books and comics?

Honestly, I'm more angry about the meme creator thinking that Super Mario Bros. was 1972.

There are actually very few games overall where you jump on enemies.

It's like hearing someone say "there were no strong female leads in movies before the Hunger Games"

That's right because playing Dark Souls, I had to insert my sanity in the coin slot every time I died and it said Thanks Obama.

Super Mario Bros was published in 1985 not 1972 but yeah.

Back in the 90's, video games were new enough that you could forgive the film industry for not being familiar with them. It's been 30 years. They still don't get it.

movies and tv shows are pretty simple -- you had charlie chaplin and leave it to beaver and then the last of us on HBO.

i have a private school/ivy league education in film theory btw. i'm short for time, so excuse the grammer.

i love how it says 1972 while showing the original super mario bros

As far as I'm concerned Pong is the ONLY video game worth playing.

I've got a suspicion that this is one of those "say something intentionally stupid so that everyone jumps on the train to correct you and create engagement".

Have I been playing Skyrim wrong all this time?

Nobody else inserted quarters into their computer whenever you died in Doom?

The Last of Us whas the first game you could play without quarters? I had no idea. That's pretty incredible.

I was listening to a podcast recently, New York Videogames Critics Circle, and they talked about The Last of Us 1 and 2 and Neil Druckman as if it was the first game to ever make the player feel emotions. Like not just that it did so successfully, but that it did it at all.

I got pretty fed up with always needing change to play Counter Strike.

The showrunner of TLOU was also the head writer for the game.

Things have changed significantly since Super Mario Bros. was released. For example, vast majority of video games released these days feature no senseless violence toward turtles. Many even portray turtles in factual, chilly way! 🐢