A strange little side quest
There is a neat bit of history hiding behind the kind of play you find in Sprunki Toca. Pong was field-tested in California bars in 1972 and helped launch the modern arcade-game era. The broader history adds one more wrinkle. Nintendo's Donkey Kong arrived in 1981 and introduced the character first known as Jumpman, who later became Mario. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.