It was my first indication that this one was set in a more recent time period than the others—probably somewhere in the fall or winter of 1988 or the spring of ’89, when Kira Underwood had lived in Middletown. About two dozen videogames were packed into the game room, with about a dozen NPCs spread among them. They were all teenage boys in late-’80s attire, each one standing at a different game. They all had their backs to me, and they continued to keep them that way as I walked past them. As I made my way to the back of the game room, I spotted the familiar Defender marquee, with the same
...more
Author spends three paragraphs telling us that we’re in a later version of the pizza arcade and that it looks like (shock and awe!) the late 80s.
Emily liked this
