I realized something neat yesterday, Brad.

Oh, I like things that are neat.

I, my kid, my daughter, when she loads up like the switch old console emulation apps or like we fire up the mister or something like that, she has this experience that I've never had.

She is presented with a bazillion games, old games, and all she has to go by whether she wants to play is maybe a thumbnail or a name.

So, like, you and I know that RC Pro Am is a game what rips on the NES, but she's sitting there and she's looking at a thousand things.

She's like, man, maybe I should try gumshoe.

And it's, maybe she should try gumshoe like I like gum and shoot why are the shoes and the gum

together that makes no sense to me right it's it's a weird experience that like we never

have because we have like we have memories even of like consoles I didn't have I have

memories of the games that were there like I know that like Alex Kidd is a cool game on a

console that I never owned as a as a child. Well, some might say Alex kid is cool. Some might say

something different. It's no Majores mask. Okay. The point is UFO 50 came out a couple weeks ago and I was

playing with it last night. Oh, okay. I see where this is going.

And I got that experience for the first time because I have this menu. It's just a bunch of pictures and names.

And I'm like looking at a little bit of pixel art.

I'm like, this one looks cool.

It has a spaceship on it.

Let's try it and see what it's like.

Did you bounce around?

Like that's absolutely what I did. I had 10 minutes to play it. And they were like, I just fire up whatever you think looks good. But then when I came out, I was like, there's a little bit of a meta narrative to this, like, barely around the edges of this like kind of fictional video game company and fictional set of home computers, you know? I was like, what if I go through this chronologically and see how they tried to reconstruct the phenomenon of a developer getting better at the hardware over time?

You know what I mean?

So my rule is that I don't play a sequel before I play the original.

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