Look At This One
My troubles began when I put my backpack in an American domestic flight overhead. My seatmate slammed his carry on into my backpack in a horrid agressive manner. I proved myself a coward by not screaming.
When I arrived in Berkeley, California I discovered my hotel’s TV was hijacked by two different linux boxes running stuff in an awkward aspect ratio. You couldn’t access anything to do with the TV. Also my Mister was broken.
I went out with my friend and we ate delicious cajun food. I could finally declare Chicory Coffee an absolute lie. It tastes like nothing. My friend went home. The next day I walked around under the Golden Gate Bridge and bought two pairs of Naked and Famous Jeans.
I met other friends in Berkley. Friends from video games though maybe the only video game we’ve played together was 20 minutes of VIDEOBALL.
When the first friend returned they had equipment and went to work trying to revive my Mister and make it actually out-put to this horrid TV setup. Luckily the DE-10 Nano still worked. The IO Board was kaput. I was using the Mister as intended, ripping out the power cable to turn it off.
THE GAME OF 2024 was sitting in that hotel room watching the Mister’s attract mode where it cycled through the thousands of games I had on it. Then one would catch our eye and we’d pick up the jury-rigged controller setup and play a game for 5 minutes. Then reset the Mister and let the game continue.
Many times this year, more than actually playing Video Games, I would enjoy just staring at random Video Games. In that same mindset I can give GAME OF THE YEAR THAT I DIDN’T PLAY to Kunitsu-gami: Path Of The Goddess. My good buddy Dylan played that while I watched and went “this looks great, I’d hate it!” It was great to look at, its complication perfectly tuned to not be overwhelming.
My hope in 2025 I get to stare at many video games with friends in person. Games on shelves and on screens. With delicious beverages and fingers pointed, “LOOK AT THIS.”
Thank You For Reading
Rudie Overton
Yokohama, Japan
Dec 30th 2024
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