1978 · Electronic Memory Game · Work 1139 of 1,871
A pine-panelled basement recreation room near Boston late on Christmas night, a small tree with coloured lights in the corner, on a brown shag carpet a flat round electronic game twenty-seven centimetres across, a black plastic shell with a bevelled rim, four translucent quarter-circle fields, green upper left, red upper right, yellow lower left, blue lower right, divided by a black cross, the red field lit bright from within, in the centre a round plate of brushed silver, plain and smooth, with small green slides and yellow and red buttons, two children's hands hovering over green and yellow, torn wrapping paper soft behind.