A strange little side quest
Halloween Tic Tac Toe may feel immediate, but the ideas around arcade history have been evolving for a very long time. Nintendo's Donkey Kong arrived in 1981 and introduced the character first known as Jumpman, who later became Mario. Another piece of context lands nicely beside it: Games resembling checkers were being played thousands of years ago; evidence of related games reaches back to around 1600 BC. Not bad for a few facts hiding behind a Play button.