A strange little side quest
A small trivia drop for Kings Defense Roguelike: The word 'checkmate' is linked to the Persian expression 'shah mat', used when the king was trapped. And then there is this: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.