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Leo laughed out loud. Tears slipped down his cheeks.

Leo loaded the board alone. He played as Yoshi. The dice rolled. The board's music looped—jaunty, synthetic, perfect. He didn't care about winning. He just moved his character space by space, watching the ghost of his father's Luigi sit idle at the start line.

Three dots appeared. Then: Only 3%. He sucked at minigames. -Wii--Mario-Party-9--ISO--PAL--Multi-5-.rar

On turn 8, a hidden block appeared. Leo's Yoshi hit it. A Star. The announcer cheered. He grinned, then felt a pang.

He launched the ISO. The screen flickered, and the familiar, cheerful Wii menu music crackled through his laptop speakers. A small white hand cursor appeared. He clicked the disc channel. Leo laughed out loud

Hey, he typed. Remember Dad's Mario Party save file?

And for as long as the hard drive lived, so would they. He played as Yoshi

The game continued. He played all fifteen turns. At the results screen, the game declared him the "Superstar." But the real victory was something else: for forty-five minutes, his dad had been there. Not in memory, not in a photograph. In the bouncy soundtrack, the clatter of virtual dice, the goofy victory dance of a pixelated Luigi.