It’s 1993. I don’t even remember where I first began playing the Jurassic Park pinball machine, but the sounds are burned into my brain: the roar of a T. rex, the driving score, and the famous words uttered once again: “Welcome…to Jurassic Park.” Decades later, I can play it once again, via Visual Pinball. Video games are as close to reality as they’ve ever been. We can model entire civilizations, even galaxies, in pixels. But there’s something visc
