OG steam machines were the shit, but way ahead of their time. If it had come out with proton already, then it would have dominated. But it’s wonderful that the UX had laid ground work for the steam deck
The game Portal genuinely lived up to the slogan "now you're thinking with portals." Soon after I started playing I'd be walking around in real life and thinking "if I put portals there and there, I could get from here to that building rooftop there and on to over there..."