Playing With Fire

A strange little side quest

Here is a rabbit hole for the next loading screen in Playing With Fire: Space Invaders, released in 1978, helped push video games into mainstream popular culture. The broader history adds one more wrinkle. Computer Space reached arcades in 1971 and became one of the earliest commercial electronic arcade games, even though its controls proved demanding for many players. Grombi files that under: small game, surprisingly large backstory.