Within the arcade, a young seven year old girl was browsing through the games to see what to play with a handful of quarters in her hand. Her name is Katie as she was left at the arcade by her mother as she was at the mall shopping. Brushing her green dress, she twirled her hair around and wondered what to play.
"Wow! So many arcade games, so little time. I don't know where to start." she said in a curious tone. She knew that she was old enough to be in the arcade to play a few games and she wanted enjoy them before her mother finishes with her shopping. Looking around, she noticed one arcade that looks to be unique. Approaching it, she observed it to see what it was.
What she found is that it was some kind of built in Treadmill with a vertical screen and an number counter that depicts years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. The screen showed a path with a forest and the title says, 'A Walk Through Life'. Looking at it, she was intrigues and said, "Oh... What's this? Some new arcade cabinet. I never seen anything like that before. Wonder what it's about?"
Looking to the coin hopper, she could see that it will only take five dollars to try it out. She blinked and was extremely confused about it.
"Five dollars? It takes five dollars to play this?" she asked herself and wasn't expecting something like that. Looking to her opened hand, she could see five dollars worth of quarters and didn't know what to do. Sighing, she said to herself, "Guess I don't know how this work unless I try it. I hope this game doesn't eat my quarters."
With that, she started to insert all her quarters into the hopper and hit the start button on the keyboard attached to the treadmill. Suddenly, a message appeared on the screen and it says...
'Welcome to your walk through life. Please enter your name.'
An empty text box started to appear to enter her name. Katie looked on and wondered why she needed to enter her name. But she brushed it off and hit her name on each key to enter her full name. When she hit enter, her full name began to appear above the screen. Once she did that, another message appeared and it said to her...
'Please enter your age.'
Another text box appeared and want her to enter her age. Curious, she type the number seven and hit enter. Looking up to her name, she could see it calculating her actual age. That's when she saw that her full age on display with the seven on the left and the seconds ticking up on the right.
Seeing that, she was amazed and said, "Wow! My age looks accurate! Even the seconds look like it's ticking on real time. Never thought my game to pinpoint my proper age."
As she was looking at it, another message appeared as this one is the strangest. It reads...
'Select the direction you wish to go.'
Below it is two choices with arrows. The up arrow with the word, 'forward' and the down arrow with the word, 'backwards' Katie looked to it and finds it all completely strange. Why would there be arrows keys with two separate directions. Does it mean walking forwards or walking backwards. There are a lot of questions that is going through her head. But she made it this far and she wants to know how this arcade game works. So looking to the keypad, she wondered which directions she wishes to go.