its-in-the-water:

astercontrol:

found-in-retro-game-mags:

Expressions People Use When They Lose a Game (Electronic Fun with Computer and Games #5, Mar. 1983)

Which of these would Kevin Flynn say?

assuming he ever lost a game

1982 Kevin, groaning and pushing himself away from the game cabinet: “Wasted! That blew me away.”

Legacy Kevin, in Zen Mode, slowly shaking his head: “Thus endeth the game. But, death, be not proud, for the game starts again…”