Not Ready Player One

My gaming days are long behind me I’m afraid, but I keep trying to pay attention

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I’m not really much of a gamer.

I used to be a huge sucker for Asteroids back in the day, which was an arcade game that you had to feed a quarter to in order to get three lives. It was white lines on a black screen. Buttons for controllers. You shot the asteroids before…