Vice City

To understand today’s topic, you need to know about GTA. “GTA” stands for “Grand Theft Auto,” which is a video game.Since the average reader of this Substack tends to be hundreds of years old more mature, you may not be aware of what a modern video game looks like. You may be, like me, more familiar with the games that were popular when video games first appeared, back in the 1970s. Remember those? Remember that electrifying moment when you first experienced the thrill of interacting with the revolutionary mind-blowing visionary technical innovation that was... Pong?To refresh your memory, here’s a video of some hot vintage Pong action. (You don’t have to watch the whole thing. Life is too short.)Talk about interactive excitement! You could move your paddle both up and down! And the little dot bounced off it! We had never seen anything like it. Back then I was a reporter for the Daily Local News in West Chester, Pa., and for several months I deposited a non-trivial portion of my…