Remember how I said in Origins of the Parents that Mr. Litwak still had an old Fix-It-Felix console from his arcade? Well sadly even with Atara's skills the game couldn't last forever. The console started to wear out again over thirty years later. Luckily it wore out slowly...

"Raeburn get up!" A voice banged on the door of Raeburn's apartment door.

Wreck-It-Raeburn groaned and reluctantly got out of bed. One of the downsides of an apartment room, especially if you couldn't afford anything better, was that the bedroom was often close to the front door. However he recognized that voice: it was Fix-It-Felix, his game partner and only friend. Their game was so old that they had been the only characters to be programmed into the game. Kinda like how Pong only had the paddles and ball, nothing else.

Still a bit sleepy, Raeburn made his way to the front door and opened it.

"Darn it Felix you know I'm not a morning person." He grumbled.

"I know but this is an emergency: our game is wearing out again!" Felix said worriedly.

"What?" Now Raeburn was awake. "Aw man, we'd better get out of here!"

"Exactly...you should get dressed and pack first. I'm already ready so I can help you pack." Felix said a little more calmly, trying to not lose his head.

"Right, you start packing as I get dressed. I'll help you finish later...oh, we should get our code boxes too." Raeburn remembered as he headed back to his bedroom.

"Oh yeah...good thing Surge Protector taught us back when our game wore out for the first time." Felix nodded as he followed Raeburn. "Luckily Atara was able to temporarily fix things..."

Felix then slipped into the bathroom to grab the stuff in there as Raeburn quickly got dressed. Raeburn then started packing his clothes as Felix brought in more important supplies and a few more carrying cases. As they did so they saw the lights dim now and then, and Raeburn realized that was what tipped Felix off earlier.

Once they were done, they ran for the code room. Luckily it wasn't too far away, in fact it was in that very same building. Both Felix and Raeburn lived in that apartment, making it the best location for the Code Room.

Raeburn held on to the rope that was tied around Felix, and Felix safely removed his and Raeburn's code boxes. Then after Raeburn pulled Felix back in their code boxes disappeared inside them. The two friends then ran for the exit and took the train into the power lines inside the wall. They made it out in time, Mr. Litwak had woken up not too long ago and had seen the game flicker.

"Oh no...looks like this is it for Fix-It-Felix." Mr. Litwak said sadly; then he became worried. "I hope Felix and Raeburn were able to make it out okay. Either way I won't unplug it until the game shuts down for good."

Back in the power lines, Felix and Raeburn were finally able to rest.

"Now what?" Raeburn asked. "We can't stay here forever."

"No...hey, how about we sneak into Mr. Litwak's laptop?" Felix suggested.

"That's a good idea, he often takes it into his arcade so we'll get a ride back to Game Central Station." Raeburn nodded. "We won't be alone that way."

"Yeah...I wonder if our old friends are still there? PacMan and the rest?" Felix said nostalgically.

"I'd be surprised if they were...then again a few might, Mr. Litwak does have a soft spot for us old games." Raeburn shrugged.

"Yeah...anyway we'd better get to the laptop now before he leaves." Felix said.

"Right."

They ran through the power lines until they found the laptop. They then went inside and waited in the hard-drive where they wouldn't be seen. They didn't know Mr. Litwak knew about them being alive because he never revealed it to them. Mr. Litwak figured that they were friends with some of the old games and he didn't want to tell them about some of them...especially TurboTime.

Now as for the game character's perspective of the laptop...well since computers are more complex than arcade consoles it would be hard to describe everything. However here are the basics: the screen itself was a wall to them, and the files we see were just buttons on that wall. Behind the wall was a file cabinet, which was connected to the wall through a tube. Clicking on a file button twice would send a signal to the file cabinet, which would then shoot the selected file onto the screen where it would form the list icon that we normally see. Clicking on one of the docs listed there would then send another signal to the file cabinet, which would send the selected doc to the wall. The size of the file cabinet depended on the computer's memory.

As for the internet, that was entirely separate and way more complex. But basically the internet-related icons on the dock were more buttons, and clicking on one would open that particular connection to the internet. Most of the internet was located back at the companies' computers, what we would get would be just the stuff we were allowed to see.

Anyway, as Mr. Litwak got ready for work the console finally died. He sadly approached it once he noticed.

"We've had many good years together old friend, and I will miss playing you." He said. "But don't worry, I'll never let you be destroyed. At least not while I'm alive."

He then unplugged the game...and left it like that. Since he was already ready for work he then grabbed his laptop and left.

Once he arrived at the arcade he greeted his games as he went into the back to set his laptop down. He plugged it in and turned it on before leaving to greet the first of his customers.

As soon as the interior of the laptop lit up Felix and Raeburn knew that they had arrived. They headed for the plug and left to enter the power lines inside the wall. They traveled down the wires until the finally found the main power line with the train that allowed game characters to visit other arcades. Not wanting to accidentally get hit by a train, Felix and Raeburn decided to wait until a train came by. These trains didn't run as often as the game trains, but luckily they could sense when someone was in the main power line. So after many minutes a train came by and stopped near Felix and Raeburn. They got on and let the train take them to Game Central Station. Once they arrived they hesitated...how much had changed since they were last there? They were kinda scared to enter the empty station and so decided to wait until the arcade closed.

Now there did used to be homeless game characters, but that changed after Ralph gave Q*Bert and his friends a home in his game. After that the safest games decided to give the other homeless characters homes out of view of the game screen. Hence why the Station was empty.