As I reached the center of the "map," the music—a haunting, slowed-down version of a dial-up handshake—cut out. A second sprite appeared. It was a mirror image of my Cursor, but it moved only when I didn't.
I stopped to type a command. The second Cursor drifted toward me. I realized with a jolt that it wasn't following my character; it was following my in the real world, even though the game was supposed to be keyboard-only. The Extraction superB!T.exe
My desk lamp flickered. A thin trail of black, ink-like smoke began to curl out of my PC’s cooling vents. On the screen, the second Cursor had reached mine. They merged, and the monitor turned into a perfect, dark mirror. As I reached the center of the "map,"