A strange little side quest
Between one round of Dry Fire and the next, this is worth knowing: Space Invaders arrived in 1978 and helped turn electronic games from an arcade curiosity into mainstream entertainment. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: Space Invaders, released in 1978, helped push video games into mainstream popular culture. That long chain of experiments is part of why action games still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
