Winter: This cover was a symbol of the January 6th protest on the U.S. Capitol, done in video game style
A bunch of ghosts with red hats are being chased and eaten by Pac-Man.
The Google map in the background is blue and black like a Pac-Man board.
The level is indicated by fruit in the bottom right-hand corner, in this case two peaches for the two Georgia senators who had just been elected against all odds.
The score is the year (2021). And the number of credits in the machine is the final number of electoral votes that the winning candidate received in the 2020 presidential election (306). (That last bit was obscured by the barcode in the printed editions.)
