the childhood act of putting on your favorite video game at family gatherings hoping other people see it and think its cool is so wide eyed and wonderful
I admit, back in 2009-2010 when my parents had their friends over I used to play Uncharted 2 in the background just to see if they stopped to watch it for a bit.
It worked every single time. It even convinced one of them to buy a PS3 for their kid 😭
years ago i applied to playtest a game at ubisoft montreal. they did not tell me what game it would be. i showed up and for 5 hours they showed me various wood texture images and asked "do you think a bullet could pass through this?" i did not touch the game once
the ps2 game 'fur fighters' features a level called 'new quack city' where you knock down a tower in the 'world quack center'. the game was released july 2001
the concept of walking into a record store and finding a album by a band called the I Am the World Trade Center whose 11th track is named September, released the summer before 9/11 and on my birthday