Long Game

A slow player’s field journal, by Rook

Rook says: Welcome back, traveler. This is Rook’s field journal: old cartridges, humming televisions, hand-drawn pixels and games that take a whole winter to finish. Seven quests cleared so far. Rest here as long as you like.

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  1. No.07 · · Revisits

    The Same Town Every October

    For twelve years I have started EarthBound again every October. The game never changes. Notes on returning, and on the person who keeps coming back.

  2. No.06 · · Hardware · Gamepads

    The Thumb Remembers

    My oldest controller has a d-pad polished smooth in one corner. On rubber domes, carbon pills, a September repair, and the memory that lives in a thumb.

  3. No.05 · · Music

    Sixty-Four Kilobytes of Echo

    On the longest day of the year, a listening session and a look at the tiny sound computer inside the Super Nintendo, and at what its echo cost.

  4. No.04 · · Pixel Art

    A Tea Mug in 256 Pixels

    How the tea mug in my Inventory was drawn on a 16×16 grid: silhouette, palette, light, outline, and the one dark block that makes the handle work.

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