It started, as most good things do, with someone trying to save money. A shared Nintendo Switch Online family subscription, split between friends and acquaintances over the internet who happened to need the same thing. It was a transaction, nothing more. Except that somewhere between the payment chasing and group chats, something shifted. We started talking, breeding thoughts with one another, only for them to be lost in a hellish abyss, writhing in pain for all eternity. Thoughts about the games we were playing, the ones we remembered, the ones we missed, disappearing into the aether. But no more. Before long, the subscription was the least interesting thing about our arrangement. A new age had begun, the age of PLAYING GAMES TOGETHER. The premise was simple. Each month, we select and vote on a collection of games that we would all like to play, with the winning game being the focus that everyone plays. Everyone is a loose term. It could be a recent entry on NSO, an old game to emulate or a new release, it matters not. What matters, is that somehow, some way, we all manage to suffer through 10 hour games together, and keep our thoughts and feelings intact.

It started, as most good things do, with someone trying to save money. A shared Nintendo Switch Online family subscription, split between friends and acquaintances over the internet who happened to need the same thing. It was a transaction, nothing more. Except that somewhere between the payment chasing and group chats, something shifted. We started talking, breeding thoughts with one another, only for them to be lost in a hellish abyss, writhing in pain for all eternity. Thoughts about the games we were playing, the ones we remembered, the ones we missed, disappearing into the aether. But no more. Before long, the subscription was the least interesting thing about our arrangement. A new age had begun, the age of PLAYING GAMES TOGETHER. The premise was simple. Each month, we select and vote on a collection of games that we would all like to play, with the winning game being the focus that everyone plays. Everyone is a loose term. It could be a recent entry on NSO, an old game to emulate or a new release, it matters not. What matters, is that somehow, some way, we all manage to suffer through 10 hour games together, and keep our thoughts and feelings intact.