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This is Sato. Please leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

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[infinite1up]

[Sato turns it on and even in the HD remake it's.. still a very retro-looking game, with little pixelly sprites and cheery chiptune background music. But in no time he's puttering his way through, shooting monsters, avoiding jets of fire, jumping spike pits, collecting keys and jumping from rope to rope. It makes it look a lot easier than the game actually is, with so many instantaneous ways to die.]

The goal is to get to the treasure at the bottom. It's really too bad the tunnels here aren't like that.

[pellameno]

There's nothing to be found in the tunnels here but grief.

[ Pell tries to keep track of what buttons Sato is pushing to make the little character survive, but he's quickly lost by the attempt and winds up just watching the game. Which is surprisingly entertaining. He's never watched anything on a screen before, not a movie or anything like this. The videos put up on the network were his first experience with them. ]

Are these games very common in your world? You seem so used to it.

[ Or maybe he's played this one a lot. ]

[infinite1up]

Oh, I've been playing them since I was a kid. They're generally seen as something younger people do as a hobby, but there are actually a lot of benefits to playing games, no matter what age you are.

[Sato seems really in his element now, Mr. Video Game Ambassador. While chatting away, he deftly guides his little on-screen man across a series of ropes, another spike pit, and clears the level, off into the next level down.]

They're good for developing hand-eye coordination, testing reflexes, and there's even been studies proving that they can even improve decision making and reduce stress.