PERSPECTIVE
The Outer Limits
ALEX SPENCER
Journeys to the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment
On a family holiday, of the parentssiblings-and-spouses variety, it’s hard finding something everyone can agree on. What a meal out should cost; the necessity of renting a car; god help us all, politics… Thankfully, though, everyone agrees on the importance of games. Just not, necessarily, which ones.
Table tennis, my father’s preferred option, is ruled out by the fact he once compared playing me to doing a pub quiz against a team of toddlers. I may have said something similar about the old man’s abilities with a game controller in my teenaged years, so any digital offering more complex than Jackbox is out. And I’m far too self-conscious of my newly minted brother-in-law’s aura of cool to bring any plastic goblins, many-sided dice or cardboard German merchantry to the table.