Good Bad Bugs/Quotes

Last version was better. More bugs. Bugs make game fun.

—Floyd in Infocom's Planetfall, in a fourth-wall breaking response to a meta command.

I think I made the fish too hardcore.

—Toady One, creator of Dwarf Fortress

The inventory loss on death is a bug! But let's just pretend it's extra difficulty for Halloween!

—Notch, creator of Minecraft

BUGS: Probably infinite, although none are known. However, that Ice Monsters sometimes transfix you permanently is not a bug. It's a feature.

—BSD Games Manual, Rogue

(using Alucard's bat ability to skip past a frustrating area in Castlevania 3) See I can cheat too, you rotten bastard.

—Castlevania Part 2, The Angry Video Game Nerd

Skyrim has that pleasant water cooler quality where every person you discuss it with has a different experience, but after a while, the conversation will turn into a glitch-swapping party. My best one was an old lady, hovering twenty feet in the air, before disappearing into the ground before my eyes. I never even knew her name, but I will always remember you, Hovering Ground Lady.

—Zero Punctuation, on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim