At a time when games are becoming ever more realistic, reality is becoming more gamelike.
However, despite her misgivings, Healy says she can see a time when games become just one more tool that teachers use, along with the blackboard and textbooks.
The N64 came at a time when games were still considered kid stuff, even though games like Doom were raising red flags among parents and opportunistic pundits and legislators.
And this at a time when games were sold in baggies in mom and pop computer stores like the Byte Shop, and a third of the cassettes didn't run when you got them home.
It's beautiful in the extreme, and a testament to a time when games were something contained and crafted as a top-to-bottom experience, and not a rough framework to fuel continued commerce through in-app purchases.
It never overcooks anything, at a time when games were already chucking in cutscenes.
In a recent article in The New York Times on the gamification of business, Nick Wingfield writes, "At a time when games are becoming ever more realistic, reality is becoming more gamelike".
It's perhaps the by-product of a different time, when games, especially ones with guns, weren't expected to have much by way of a story, but Doomguy's silence, unlike Gordon Freeman's, never seems incongruous simply because there is no-one for him to talk to.
The White Sox, with nothing to play for but a better draft pick, cannot hit, pitch or field very well these days, so an unexpected stumble by the Yankees in these three games could have proved catastrophic at a time when every game matters.
"This is a time when the game is evolving.
