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"...Now you're making me feel old," Shalin sighed, pretending she was old enough to grow up with the first 64-bit hardware. Though many of its titles didn't age well, the blocky, low poly models of the mid to late 1990s had a certain charm and character to them. The real reason she liked those games were because they were often held together by duct tape, or "200 MPH tape" as Josh Devlin called it. "Really wasn't until the early 2000s that games started to look good graphically, and developers started to run into diminishing graphical returns with every new console."

She frowned slightly at hearing interest in fighting games. "Could never get into those. I always liked platformers, puzzle games, and open world adventures, like Pokémon! The occasional Eastern RPG, too. You should see some of the game-breakings things that have been found in those games over the last few years." The number of time-stop glitches that had been found in retro games in the past few years was mind-boggling.

As the school came into sight, the destination marker moved from Shalin's mini-map to the school entrance, where a member of the faculty was patiently awaiting their delivery. "Looks like we're here! I'm gonna turn this in now." The girl procured her half of the delivery, Saria gently extending one of her vines to shake the office worker's hand. As she handed over the package, a congratulatory message would pop up in the center of her field of vision:

DUTY COMPLETE.

"Was a pleasure doing this with you! I'll have to send you a message when I find something else interesting. What are you building toward? Maybe our paths coincide and we can adventure together."