A strange little side quest
A quick detour while Warzone Getaway waits for your next move: Space Invaders arrived in 1978 and helped turn electronic games from an arcade curiosity into mainstream entertainment. The broader history adds one more wrinkle. 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.