Andrea is an editor at Game Rant, where she has been writing professionally about video games for nearly five years. She became a gamer for life at 7, thanks to a copy of Pokemon Red and her Game Boy.

The usual way, as had been handed down through the ages, is, of course, to squint one eye, take the fraying end of a piece of string, and, with some help from saliva and scissors, jab it through the ...