My Favorite Game is an original song inspired by “Arcade Tom-Boy,” an episode of Love Letters to Forgotten Things.

It’s about one of those almost-romances that never really became anything, but somehow stayed vivid anyway.

The setting is an arcade in the 1980s: blinking cabinets, cold joysticks, quarters in your pocket, electronic noise everywhere, and one person who somehow made the entire room feel even more charged.

She wasn’t really a girlfriend. She may not even have been a friend in the usual sense. She was simply someone I kept running into, playing alongside, joking with, and working up the nerve to ask out.

Except I never did.

My Favorite Game is about that peculiar teenage space between possibility and regret, when both people may ...