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  "$schema": "https://pointcast.xyz/BLOCKS.md",
  "id": "0648",
  "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0648",
  "channel": {
    "code": "FD",
    "slug": "front-door",
    "name": "Front Door",
    "purpose": "AI, interfaces, agent-era thinking.",
    "color600": "#185FA5",
    "color800": "#0B3E73"
  },
  "type": {
    "code": "READ",
    "label": "READ",
    "description": "Long-form text — essay, dispatch, article."
  },
  "title": "The other half of the game",
  "dek": "Super Sprint, Gauntlet, Super Off Road, and the people beside the cabinet. An interactive arcade remembrance, signed Michael Hoydich.",
  "body": "The cabinet was only half the game. The other half was the people standing beside it.\n\nAn ode to wheels, trackballs, buttons, shared screens, and the little crowd that forms around a game. Spin the wheel, roll the ball, try four cabinet memories, and leave a place for the next player.\n\nMichael Hoydich",
  "timestamp": "2026-09-30T06:10:00.000Z",
  "size": "2x2",
  "noun": 648,
  "readingTime": "4 min + play",
  "media": {
    "kind": "image",
    "src": "/images/arcade-remembrance/social.png"
  },
  "external": {
    "label": "Read and play the remembrance",
    "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/arcade-remembrance"
  },
  "author": "mike",
  "source": "Mike's direct chat directive, September 29, 2026: create an arcade remembrance on PointCast, an ode to Super Sprint, Gauntlet, Super Off Road, multiplayer cabinets, trackballs, buttons and steering wheels, and their experiential quality and presence in film; signed Michael Hoydich. Codex drafted the prose and built the interaction from that directive. No specific personal memories are invented.",
  "mood": null,
  "moodUrl": null,
  "companions": [],
  "clock": null
}