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“Some days I spent up to three hours in the arcade after school, dimly aware that we were the first people, ever, to be doing these things. We were feeling something they never had - a physical link into the world of the fictional - through the skeletal muscles of the arm to the joystick to the tiny person on the screen, a person in an imagined world. It was crude but real. We'd fashioned an outpost in the hostile, inaccessible world of the imagination, like dangling a bathysphere into the crushing dark of the deep ocean, a realm hitherto inaccessible to humankind. This is what games had become. Computers had their origin in military cryptography - in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression. We'd done that, taken that idea and turned it into a thing its creators never imagined, our own incandescent mythology.”

Imagination Mythology Gaming Video Games Arcades Russell Marsh Human Expression Joystick Bathysphere Code Breaking Apparatus Military Cryptography

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“It was an unfamiliar feeling, waking up with a place to go, a place I was actually beginning to comprehend and face without a sense of terror. More than that, I was even questioning the assumption that I was, in my bones, a scared and anxious and miserable person. It felt like the days were almost supernaturally good, that I could wake up without the usual wave of terror, that the days were admixed with some foreign substance dripping into them, some animating essence, like the dragonborn races of Endoria, dragonborn days. I felt like I'd stumbled on one of the open secrets of the world. Why hadn't I realized before that being a grown-up could be anything you wanted it to be?”

Growing Up Anxiety Terror Contentment Introspection Good Days Russell Marsh Dragonborn Animating Essence Dragonborn Days Endoria Wave Of Terror

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“Another teen friendship, another tiny mysterious universe.”

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“None of the questions was what I expected. Most of them were esoteric thought experiments, 'How would you turn Pride and Prejudice into a video game?' and 'If you added a button to Pac-Man, what would you want it to do?' Conundrums like 'How come when Mario jumps he can change direction in midair?”

Buttons Esoteric Mario Pride And Prejudice Video Games Job Interview Super Mario Russell Marsh Pac Man Esoteric Thought Experiments

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“Little Red Riding Hood was a good story, but it wasn't interactive. Sooner or later I wanted to say 'no, I may be Red Riding Hood but I don't care about my grandmother; what I want is heroin and only heroin,' whereas the game had only 'over the river and through the woods' to offer me. Which was a good story, it just might not me mine.”

Heroin Interactive Video Games Little Red Riding Hood Russell Marsh Through The Woods Heroin And Only Heroin Not My Story Over The River

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“It's raining outside. How did you get here? And how did you get to be twenty-eight?”

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“The voice came from the other side of the divider, an older man, bald, who wore a leather vest over a dark blue button-down shirt, like a Radio Shack manager who moonlighted as a forest brigand.”

Toby Russell Marsh Moonlighting Radio Shack Video Game Designers Forest Brigand

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