The Year I Pressed Start

Found Save: The choices that shaped the player

I didn’t know it then, but this choice changed my entire view on gaming…

There’s a moment before you press New Game where everything goes quiet.

No map yet.

No quest log.

Just a menu screen humming softly, asking a question you can’t really undo once you answer it: Are you sure?

This year, that moment wasn’t in a game.

It was in my word processor.

A blank page. A blinking cursor.

And a name I wasn’t even sure I deserved yet: Pause Menu.