A strange little side quest
Zoom out from Blackbeards Assault for a moment and the timeline gets surprisingly deep. Space Invaders arrived in 1978 and helped turn electronic games from an arcade curiosity into mainstream entertainment. It also connects to a different milestone: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. So a round of Blackbeards Assault is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer action games timeline.
