Judy Bayer enters ninth grade with dread. At 14, she is an easy target for the older girls in the upper grades. She feared what Hell Week initiation would bring. She had every right to be afraid,
John is a thirty-something wastrel, living in his mother's basement. Then, a stroke of luck, and a lot of nagging lands him the rarest arcade game of all time. He thinks it will change his life, and finally show his mother that games are for real. However, John has no idea just how much it will change his life.