A strange little side quest
A quick detour while Texas Hold'em Poker waits for your next move: Nintendo's Donkey Kong arrived in 1981 and introduced the character first known as Jumpman, who later became Mario. A second detail makes the picture even better: Street Fighter II, released in 1991, turned head-to-head arcade fighting into a worldwide phenomenon and helped define the modern fighting-game genre. That history is one reason familiar mechanics can still feel new when they are recombined well.
