After the Turtle! debacle, I gave up on gaming altogether for awhile. I went to college—Hamilton College, in Upstate New York—put on 50 pounds of muscle, and played Division III football for three years, until my knees finally gave out on me early in my junior year. I remember the five long days that I spent in a tiny, rural hospital my junior year while healing from ligament reconstruction surgery. At night, I’d read Whitley Strieber novels while glancing occasionally at the room’s window, worrying that an almond-eyed “gray” was out there in the woods at that very moment, waiting for me…