A strange little side quest
Put Harvest Fruit Merge next to the history of arcade history and a few unexpected connections appear. Nintendo's Donkey Kong arrived in 1981 and introduced the character first known as Jumpman, who later became Mario. A second detail makes the picture even better: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. Grombi files that under: small game, surprisingly large backstory.