A strange little side quest
A little context makes Shoot Your Nightmare: Halloween Special more fun to place on the gaming map. The Oregon Trail mixed travel, supplies, risk and survival decisions decades before resource-management systems became common in mainstream games. And then there is this: Gun Fight reached arcades in 1975 and became the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.