A strange little side quest
Even a quick game like Y8 Avatar Generator sits on top of decades — and sometimes centuries — of ideas. Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. And then there is this: Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. It is a good reminder that simple game mechanics can carry a surprising amount of history.