Scary Maze Game DX

A strange little side quest

The mechanics around Scary Maze Game DX have roots that stretch far beyond modern browsers. A major archery competition held at Finsbury in England in 1583 drew about 3,000 participants. 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.