A strange little side quest
Zoom out from Frat Boy Beer Pong for a moment and the timeline gets surprisingly deep. In 1958, Tennis for Two used an analog computer and an oscilloscope to turn simple physics into a playable tennis-like demonstration. And the history keeps stacking up: Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. That history is one reason familiar mechanics can still feel new when they are recombined well.