Natalie Wynn has spent the last decade turning philosophy, internet culture, and politics into some of YouTube’s most ambitious video essays. As ContraPoints, she’s built an audience of millions by dissecting everything from shame and cancel culture to Twilight and J.K. Rowling with visual flourish typically reserved for feature films. But when we dropped her into a retro game store for Polygon’s Shelf Quest, another obsession quickly came into focus: the strange emotional power of old video games.