A strange little side quest
12 Minutes to Survive belongs to a much longer story of play than a browser tab might suggest. Games resembling checkers were being played thousands of years ago; evidence of related games reaches back to around 1600 BC. A second detail makes the picture even better: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. Grombi files that under: small game, surprisingly large backstory.