Thinking about games & the effect they had on me. Chrono Trigger is a game that opens with a kid being woken up by his single mother. He's been reminded to meet his friend at a fair, and she even forgets his friend's name. I don't know if I realized before how important 1/8 🧵

that opening scene was for me as an 8-10 year old kid replaying it over and over. I grew up with a single mom. I always slept in, as most young boys do. She never remembered my friend's names. I was always left to kinda figure out life on my own terms, too. Like Crono. 2/8