A strange little side quest
Here is a rabbit hole for the next loading screen in The Wasteland: Space Invaders arrived in 1978 and helped turn electronic games from an arcade curiosity into mainstream entertainment. Another piece of context lands nicely beside it: 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 long chain of experiments is part of why action games still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
