A strange little side quest
Before the next round of Stone Cold Steel, here is a piece of the bigger picture. Space Invaders arrived in 1978 and helped turn electronic games from an arcade curiosity into mainstream entertainment. That old idea kept changing rather than disappearing. Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was 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.