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Recently, I believe I had the experience of seeing and partaking in some sort of future video game requiring no screen or joysticks. The action seemed to by psychically controlled and displayed as a type of hologram. What I remembered seeing were two disks that each player controlled, a light one and a dark one, and the purpose was quite simply for one disk to eclipse the other. It may sound dull and perhaps easy but I was amazed how engaging it actually became! To completely smother a moving object that is trying to smother you is harder than it looks. I believe that the play area or screen became smaller as we played, adding challenge to the game. Points were scored with each total eclipse of the other. I cannot remember who I played against or even how well I did, where and why it took place or when. Eclipse was a name I coined after I had a gist of how the game was played. The word eclipse seemed the most fitting. When you consider how involved video games have become these days, and how unfathomable they are to adults, perhaps in the future we return to the simple and minimalist games like Pac Man or Space Invaders. Apart from the psychic and holographic aspects of this strange game, it would not be difficult to manufacture and I welcome anyone to patent it. Like a simple game of marbles, it sounds banal but is a surprisingly engaging way for the tomorrow people to amuse themselves. There were certain phenomena I came across during my interactive experiences that gave way to the notion of “dual-presence” and psycho- dramatic play scenes. Quite often I was plunged amongst the most lifelike scenes that weren’t quite real upon closer inspection. I wasn’t actually where I thought I was. These scenes were perhaps the most convincing virtual reality we could achieve without headsets yet the experiencer could still see 144 These are just some of those obscure glimpses alongside my interpretations: Eclipse: A simple game of the future? Virtual time travel theme parks