A strange little side quest
The rules may be simple on screen, but the backstory around Meat Rider is anything but tiny. Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: Games resembling checkers were being played thousands of years ago; evidence of related games reaches back to around 1600 BC. It is a good reminder that simple game mechanics can carry a surprising amount of history.