A strange little side quest
The fun part of looking behind Spolous is seeing how many older ideas are still alive in modern play. Our solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a cloud of gas and dust collapsing under gravity. That is only half the story. Pac-Man went on sale in 1980, and its creator Toru Iwatani famously linked the character's shape to a pizza with a slice missing. That gives Spolous a little more company than it first appears to have.