endnote n.53: Eschaton defined
Eschaton is a real-participant and tennis-court-modified version of the EndStat® ROM-run nuclear-conflagration game.
Context
The book's first formal definition of Eschaton, glossing the game's early main-text mention long before scene 073 stages it. Sixteen words that make the regress explicit: the kids' court-sized map of the world is itself an adaptation of a commercial software simulation — a representation of a representation, with real participants swapped in.