A strange little side quest
Even a quick game like Tower War sits on top of decades — and sometimes centuries — of ideas. Games resembling checkers were being played thousands of years ago; evidence of related games reaches back to around 1600 BC. 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. Grombi files that under: small game, surprisingly large backstory.