Parking Lot

A strange little side quest

Before the next round of Parking Lot, here is a piece of the bigger picture. Atari's Gran Trak 10 from 1974 is recognized as the first arcade racing video game, decades before modern 3D racers. A second detail makes the picture even better: Space Invaders, released in 1978, helped push video games into mainstream popular culture. So a round of Parking Lot is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer racing timeline.