“It’s a goal! Absolutely sensational!”

The dialog box vanished. For a second, nothing happened. Then, the screen went black, and the Electronic Arts logo swelled into view, accompanied by that deep, resonant thrumm that was the sound of a thousand childhood afternoons.

A tattered, spiral-bound notebook. On the cover, in 12-year-old Mateo’s careful handwriting: Passwords and Keys. KEEP OUT.