GAME OVER
n the days before the ubiquity of the internet, stumped gamers would sometimes phone a tip line for a bit of life-saving advice. Nintendo’s ‘game counselors’ in particular had a near-mythical status, and a gig that every kid dreamed of having. The reality was less impressive, less glamorous, but the idealized version—encyclopedic knowledge of games, completed blindfolded—lives on in , where they serve as fixers in virtual worlds.
