A strange little side quest
CF-Linghu has plenty of company in a long tradition of players chasing timing, patterns and better decisions. Gun Fight reached arcades in 1975 and became the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. That is only half the story. Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. That history is one reason familiar mechanics can still feel new when they are recombined well.