YouTuber and video essayist Natalie Wynn, known as ContraPoints, discusses her relationship with video games in an episode of Polygon’s Shelf Quest. The feature presents gaming as something she regarded as forbidden and therefore especially appealing in childhood, before becoming a subject she now streams on her ContraPointsLive channel.

Filmed at videogamesnewyork in Manhattan’s East Village, the episode explores Wynn’s memories through titles including The Sims, Age of Empires and Gauntlet: Dark Legacy. She also discusses her interest in low-fidelity horror games, such as Resident Evil Requiem and the Fears to Fathom series, and reflects on what she calls the “silent indifference” of The Sims.