A strange little side quest
Here is a rabbit hole for the next loading screen in Solitaire Crime Stories: Nintendo's Donkey Kong arrived in 1981 and introduced the character first known as Jumpman, who later became Mario. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: In 1958, Tennis for Two used an analog computer and an oscilloscope to turn simple physics into a playable tennis-like demonstration. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.
