Hello everybody and welcome to a Canan Rince interview special.

With me today, we have the author of the fourth coming book,

The 100 Best Video Games, Wait for It, That Never Existed. It's Nate Crowley. Welcome to Canaan,

Rince, Nate. Hi, Leon, hello. So, there's a story behind all this. Well, first of all,

both for the sake of our listeners' interest and what's that word, they use a lot these days, transparency.

So you and I are talking together today.

We were hooked up by an old friend of the show, Sinan Kubber, who works nowadays at Rebellion, the vintage, you know, much storied, fantastic British

publisher of games normally, but they also have a book publishing arm. So that's how we're

speaking. But I suppose we should take it back to the beginning. And like so many things in this strange modern world in which we live,

in which we live in, according to Paul McCartney,

it started with a tweet, never thought it would come to this.

And so it was back on December the 5th of last year um what was your mind just idling

or uh were you bored or was this something that had been bursting to get out tell us tell us

how this this journey started uh yeah so um if fact pretty much my whole writing career seems to have happened as a result of tweets I've done while in a sense of vague, distracted mania.

It was, I think I was definitely meant to be doing something else and I couldn't concentrate.

And everyone was doing those tweets.

You know those tweets?

It's like, one like equals one thing I think about witches, and then they'll put a list

of witch facts, depending on how many likes they get.

I saw those, and I thought, okay, then, uh,

why not one like equals one fictional video game.

Yeah.

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