Read This: one man’s magnificent obsession with the DragonStrike instructional tape

Jolly came into possession of the tape when he was 10 years old and claims to have watched it at least once a month since, building up a mythos surrounding its disembodied-head narrator and primitive green screen aesthetic in the absence of any online information about the game. Ironically, it was the Internet that eventually led Jolly to DragonStrike writer/director Flint Dille, who Jolly cold-called at a number he found online back in 2006. Eventually, Jolly and Dille sat down to “talk DragonStrike,” providing insight into the production of the video and its unreleased sequel, Wild Space. Jolly even includes a complete upload of the tape for his fellow nerdy ‘90s kids to re-live their basement-bound childhoods because, as he says in the piece, “there are no rivals here.”