Arcade & Classic Games · 2

Alternating two-player modes created competition without simultaneous hardware; friends could share one cabinet and still turn every life into a public performance. Put that beside this bit of history: Q*bert used an isometric pyramid in 1982, making simple hopping controls look like movement through a strange three-dimensional toy. Arcade games specialize in the sentence 'I know exactly what to do,' immediately followed by not doing it.