Just as the video game console market was about to crash into the New Mexico desert in 1983 musician and sociologist David Sudnow was unearthing the secrets of eye mind and the essence of video skill through an exploration of Ataris Breakout one of the earliest hits of the arcade world. Originally released under the title Pilgrim in the Microworld Sudnows groundbreaking longform criticism of a single game predates the rise of serious game studies by decades. While its earliest critics often scor