A strange little side quest
Deserted Base may feel immediate, but the ideas around action games have been evolving for a very long time. Space Invaders arrived in 1978 and helped turn electronic games from an arcade curiosity into mainstream entertainment. And the history keeps stacking up: In 1958, Tennis for Two used an analog computer and an oscilloscope to turn simple physics into a playable tennis-like demonstration. Grombi files that under: small game, surprisingly large backstory.