A strange little side quest
The Happos Family: Balloon Ride has plenty of company in a long tradition of players chasing timing, patterns and better decisions. Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. The timeline takes another interesting turn: Pong was field-tested in California bars in 1972 and helped launch the modern arcade-game era. So a round of The Happos Family: Balloon Ride is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer video-game history timeline.
