It's pretty straight forward. A guy is trying to get the attention of a girl at a party that (I'm assuming) he's been in love with fr some time, and the guy is obviously a geek (Hence the video game analogy) and he does the analogy in his head to help him go along with it, thinking it's all a game, that he has cheat codes for, so theres no way he can lose. Oh, and the up up down down left right left right B A select Start isn't refering to him as a player, it's the first cheat code ever created. It's from the NES game Contra, which gave the player 30 lives, but its refering in this song to giving the "Player" 99 lives.
It's pretty straight forward. A guy is trying to get the attention of a girl at a party that (I'm assuming) he's been in love with fr some time, and the guy is obviously a geek (Hence the video game analogy) and he does the analogy in his head to help him go along with it, thinking it's all a game, that he has cheat codes for, so theres no way he can lose. Oh, and the up up down down left right left right B A select Start isn't refering to him as a player, it's the first cheat code ever created. It's from the NES game Contra, which gave the player 30 lives, but its refering in this song to giving the "Player" 99 lives.