A strange little side quest
If Table Shuffleboard sends you down a curiosity rabbit hole, start here. Atari's Gran Trak 10 from 1974 is recognized as the first arcade racing video game. And then there is this: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. The screen is modern; the urge to test skill, pattern and timing definitely is not.