A strange little side quest
Santa Revenge belongs to a much longer story of play than a browser tab might suggest. Space Invaders arrived in 1978 and helped turn electronic games from an arcade curiosity into mainstream entertainment. The timeline takes another interesting turn: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. The screen is modern; the urge to test skill, pattern and timing definitely is not.