A strange little side quest
One reason video-game history keeps producing good game ideas around Chainsaw the Children is that its history is full of strange turns. Computer Space reached arcades in 1971 and became one of the earliest commercial electronic arcade games, even though its controls proved demanding for many players. The same trail leads to another fact: Street Fighter II, released in 1991, turned head-to-head arcade fighting into a worldwide phenomenon and helped define the modern fighting-game genre. So a round of Chainsaw the Children is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer video-game history timeline.
