A strange little side quest
What's Your Chicken Name? belongs to a much longer story of play than a browser tab might suggest. Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: Space Invaders, released in 1978, helped push video games into mainstream popular culture. That is the kind of background detail that makes another attempt at What's Your Chicken Name? feel a bit more connected to the history of play.
