Steve and Isaiah Sanders, father and son video-game champs, take Joust world record for doubles

More than 20 years ago, Steve Sanders laid his joystick down and left the world of competitive gaming. He was not unlike the weary gunslingers of the Old West who saw one too many boys end their quests for fame dissolving into a puddle of pixels.

Much as you might try to change yourself, really you’re only running away. No matter how many Montana pig farms Sanders tried to hide on, or law firms, as it were, the young fighter was still inside, longing to hear the sound of a freshly dropped quarter rattling in the guts of a Ms. Pac-Man machine.