"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this consoles a new genre, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that not all games are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that genre, or any genre, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their jobs that that genre might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicatewe can not consecratewe can not hallowthis ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this genre, under IGA, shall have a new birth of freedom and that genre of the Metroidvania, by the Metroids, for the Castlevanias, shall not perish from the earth."