Maxwell Clicker

A strange little side quest

The rules may be simple on screen, but the backstory around Maxwell Clicker is anything but tiny. Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. The surprising part is how quickly the next milestone followed. Pong was field-tested in California bars in 1972 and helped launch the modern arcade-game era. Grombi files that under: small game, surprisingly large backstory.