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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.

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What’s really astounding to me is a lot of the guys at Oculus VR and other companies who were creating VR tell me that ‘Ready Player One’ is one of their primary inspirations in getting into virtual reality.

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When you‘re hanging out with your friends, you reference books and movies, and you don’t always know if your friends know what you’re referencing. But you throw it out there, and if it connects, it makes people laugh.

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I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written ‘Neuromancer’ on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote ‘Snow Crash‘ in the early ’90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet.

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‘Fanboys’ was the first real screenplay that I ever wrote that was an original story with my own characters.

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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.’

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Personally, I’m kind of swirling in this hurricane of virtual reality because of ‘Ready Player One.’

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‘Star Wars‘ was the mythology of my youth. I longed for adventure.

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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.

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I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.

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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.

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I’m surprised that VR has come about so quickly. It’s lucky I just happened to write a book imagining virtual reality right on the cusp of it actually happening.

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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.

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VR really changes everything for flight because the old simulators for the PC were 2D, and you couldn’t look around inside the cockpit and learn the controls or even track other planes through the cockpit.

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Everything you could ever want to happen happened to me when ‘Ready Player One’ came out.

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Now, a lot of early VR worlds or universes that are coming online take inspiration from ‘Ready Player One.’ It’s just the coolest thing ever.

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I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.

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I think it’s a bit silly to brand the Internet as the ‘downfall of youth.’

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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.

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In a book, you can describe a scene and have any song you want playing on the radio and have any painting you want hanging on the wall. That was really freeing to me when I was writing ‘Ready Player One.’ I could throw in everything that I love.

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I have to avoid things like ‘World of Warcraft‘ or ‘Minecraft’, otherwise I’d never get any work done.

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I have such a vivid memory of seeing science fiction movies and going to the lobby and playing whatever the space games were, and imagine I was blowing up the Death Star.

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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.

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I’m incredibly nostalgic for the ’80s, because I think that’s when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

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It’s weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too.

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