I'll never forget the first time I played *Pokémon Snap*. A neighbor kid, Sam, had spent days telling me all about the new Pokémon game he'd gotten for his Nintendo 64, but I hadn't really been paying much attention. I had no idea how the actual Pokémon trading card game was played, though I'd gathered that it involved battles — something nine-year-old me was wholly uninterested in — so I'd mostly been tuning him out.