A strange little side quest
Zoom out from Blob Wars for a moment and the timeline gets surprisingly deep. Humans did not see the Moon's far side until a Soviet spacecraft flew past it in 1959. The timeline takes another interesting turn: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. The screen is modern; the urge to test skill, pattern and timing definitely is not.