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Blue light nights
Who is Mike Mika?
Mike Mika’s official videogame career began in the Nineties, working on Game Boy Color titles like Klax and Alice In Wonderland. He’s now the studio head of Digital Eclipse, a studio acclaimed for its reverential treatment of classic games.
In the Eighties, my parents worshipped at a fluorescent-lit temple called Kmart, a retail fever dream best known for its Blue Light Specials – a kind of flash-mob-inducing event where employees wheeled a blue-light-topped cart through the store like some sort of capitalist siren beckoning shoppers to deep discounts. Shoppers abandoned their pride, dignity, and children to chase it. My friend Derrick was once trampled during one of these ceremonies and came up clutching a bag of Tootsie Pops like a war hero. He still has a limp.