In that tiny, pixelated world, the hero was just as brave, the songs were just as catchy, and the journey home felt a whole lot shorter.
He plugged in his tangled earphones and pressed play. The quality was terrible; the actors looked like moving mosaics of beige and black pixels. The frame rate stuttered every time the hero threw a punch. But as the familiar opening theme buzzed through his cheap earbuds, a wide grin spread across Arjun’s face.