A strange little side quest
Before the next round of Pocket Battle Royale, here is a piece of the bigger picture. Space Invaders arrived in 1978 and helped turn electronic games from an arcade curiosity into mainstream entertainment. 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. It is a good reminder that simple game mechanics can carry a surprising amount of history.