A strange little side quest
Before the next round of Robot Connections, here is a piece of the bigger picture. Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. The broader history adds one more wrinkle. Nintendo's Donkey Kong arrived in 1981 and introduced the character first known as Jumpman, who later became Mario. So a round of Robot Connections is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer arcade history timeline.