It's 1996, and second-year high school students Haruo Yaguchi, Akira Oono, and Koharu Hidaka are still as obsessed with video games as they were five years earlier. What began as good rivalry and camaraderie has evolved into something more as a result of arcade games. They work with allies, traverse high school, and discover that, despite life's many problems, there's always a game or two they can rely on as they try to comprehend their strange sentiments.