Remember the golden age of the 90’s, when computers and this mysterious thing called “The Internet" was starting to regularly appear as plot points in movies and TV shows? The concept of your computer doing anything more than playing solitaire or running a word processor was pretty foreign for most people, which lead filmmakers and TV producers to come up with countless totally ridiculous scenes to attempt to illustrate what was happening inside the computer.

These portrayals typically started by straight up needing to explain what a “modem" is to hilariously terrible animations, like this one from the old PBS show Ghostwriter:

Typically, everything is green because of course it is, there’s all sorts of recognizable things from a computer you might know, and it’s all flying around all crazy because it’s CYBERSPACE, the frontier of the future! Well, a game recently hit the App Store called Cursor: The Virus Hunter ($1.99) which riffs on this, while combining cave flying style gameplay sort of similar to Whale Trail (Free) while having the random unlockable characters (or in this case, cursors) of Crossy Road (Free).

It’s appropriately stupid, like all of these “Here’s what’s happening inside the computer!!!" kind of things, and even though it’s just a mishmash of stuff that’s been done before the theme totally makes me smile. If you’re similarly continually amused by remembering how the 90’s tried to make people understand computers, and have room on your phone for another silly free to play game you’ll fiddle with once in a while, Cursor: The Virus Hunter should be on your radar.