In the beginning, when I was just a tiny girl gamer with futuristic visions of pixel pushing, my dad brought home an old ATARI game system. My very first game was Adventure! I was beyond thrilled, since I had only ever peeked over shoulders and watched my family play text adventures. But now that I was barely old enough to play too, I picked up that joystick and took my first teetering steps toward a long videogame journey. In Adventure as a small and mobile square, I could be chased and eaten by actual rectangular dragons while looking for a key bigger than my square self. Lemme’ tell ya, it was a joyous day when I defeated both the Red and Black Dragons.

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