Every gamer has a shelf somewhere — real or imagined — where the games that shaped them still live. Polygon’s new video series Shelf Quest turns that idea into a monthly pilgrimage.
In each episode, we’ll invite a celebrity or creator to wander the aisles of a video game store, pick up the boxes, and revisit the games that defined their lives. It’s part nostalgia trip, part oral history, and part reminder that so many of us of a certain age started somewhere with a controller or a few precious quarters.
For Polygon, the obvious home base is Videogamesnewyork, the legendary East Village shop whose narrow aisles feel like a physical archive of gaming culture. Fact: A bunch of us went recently to bask in the glow of cult PS2 games as if we were gazing at Vermeers at the Met Museum. It was awesome.
