Games and game hardware came packaged. They’re sealed shut, some of them completely shrink-wrapped. and covered in clear plastic. They are sealed off from the outside world. But what about people?

One day in 1993 Michael Enos was on the freeway near Reno when he saw a tractor-trailer rumble by full of boats, each neatly wrapped in shiny white plastic. "It was all nice and tight and pretty," he ...