A strange little side quest
Zoom out from Bomber at War 2: Battle For Resources for a moment and the timeline gets surprisingly deep. Modern chess traces back to the Indian game chaturanga, recorded around the sixth century and built around pieces representing parts of an army. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: Space Invaders arrived in 1978 and helped turn electronic games from an arcade curiosity into mainstream entertainment. It is a good reminder that simple game mechanics can carry a surprising amount of history.
