Glowing windows blinked like a million tiny eyes among the skyscrapers of Seattle, Northern Cascadia. On clear nights, the sky stretched in a solid sheet of dark navy punctuated only by the moon. There were no lights up there. History told of how humanity had plucked the stars from the sky and placed them on earth.
Even among a scenery of radiant skyscrapers, the Seattle Nintendo headquarters were unmistakable. Beneath the neon sign that boldly declared the company’s name in vivid red, the entire building brightened its walls with colorful lights, displaying vastly-magnified images of iconic characters from early games. Each glass-walled room was a pixel in an animated 32-bit painting. On the roof, a five-story-tall hologram of its three-dimensional “N” logo rotated slowly.