He launched the game.

His front tire was bent. The left analog stick was slick with something warm and wet. Behind him, the mountain groaned, and the trail began to collapse, pixel by pixel, into the void.

He tried to hit the home button.

The mountain crumbled another inch behind him.

He tried to hold the power button.

The file was suspiciously small. A single NSP, no weird .exe attached. His heart hammered as he dragged it onto his modded Switch's SD card via a USB adapter. The Nintendo home screen glitched for half a second. Then, a new icon appeared: a stylized rider mid-whip, the word beneath it.

Nothing.