A strange little side quest
Between one round of Super Bowling Mania and the next, this is worth knowing: 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 is only half the story. Games resembling checkers were being played thousands of years ago; evidence of related games reaches back to around 1600 BC. So a round of Super Bowling Mania is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer arcade history timeline.
