To me, it seemed a bit like a 21st-century version of a one-room frontier schoolhouse.
But it also occurs in a sort of abstract waiting room on the frontier of mortality.
The "New Frontier" rooms are stocked with kid-friendly interactive multimedia games that teach about conservation, the environment and life in the modern city.
Frontier living is frontier living.
One standout is a room by Mr. Aitken called "Frontier" (2009), which features the artist Ed Ruscha moving through a surreal urban landscape.
Another thing, when I was very small, at eight after the amber lamp in the hall was switched off, when the night-light shone, I used to feel one of my digits grown massive but weightless, a toe on the loom, waxing, palpitating frontiers of the room.
Carroll English, who has lived in Stelle the longest, keeps 69 copies of "The Ultimate Frontier" in her living room bookcase.
But for the more mundane frontier of the living room, how many gamers will give over precious space for this huge piece of kit remains to be seen.
I liked Stanley, deep inside the Sawtooth mountains, and especially the Sawtooth Hotel (rooms from $70) with its genuine frontier feel.
Instead, expect the dining room of the fanciest hotel in a frontier town.
Or that the heroic exploits of Ben-Hur in 1959, at the brink of a New Frontier, held more appeal than Room at the Top's love triangle or Anatomy of a Murder's courtroom intrigue.
