A strange little side quest
Before the next round of Christmas Magic Santa, here is a piece of the bigger picture. Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. And the history keeps stacking up: Space Invaders, released in 1978, helped push video games into mainstream popular culture. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.