A strange little side quest
Between one round of Box Head - The Rooms and the next, this is worth knowing: Space Invaders arrived in 1978 and helped turn electronic games from an arcade curiosity into mainstream entertainment. And then there is this: Nintendo's Donkey Kong arrived in 1981 and introduced the character first known as Jumpman, who later became Mario. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.