From networked Doom to social media, this article traces the writer's experience of teaching digital media studies over the past 15 years. While some other fields of academia meander along changing in increments and gentle undulating forays into new fields of enquiry, new media studies hurtles along like a Atari game on an emulator without Speed Throttling and Auto Frameskip. Keeping up is not the only concern - slowing the frame down long enough to establish a research target is often impossible. By way of a series of blog style vignettes, the article tries to indentify some key moments when the target came briefly into view.