As Ellie approached, Joel took a step back, a glance thrown towards the door leading back out to the street. This really wasn't how he wanted to be wasting time. Still, he remained tight-lipped, eyes back on the machine while Ellie inspected it, looked it over, ran her hands along the edges like it was somehow precious to her. Stupid. It was just a stupid video game machine. Junk, just like everything else was.

A small snort, a little incredulous and mostly unhelpfully stubborn, left him at Ellie's question about extension cords. "Even if we did find one, you need electricity to power those things."

Which of course... there was a chance there was a generator somewhere about, but Joel wasn't about to go hunting around for a generator just so Ellie could play a damn video game.

He gave a mildly exasperated, impatient show of his hand at the machine. "Why the hell is this thing so important to you, anyways?"