Arcade & Classic Games · 4

Classic arcade games often explain themselves through motion: enemies approach, objects fall, and the player's first mistake teaches the goal faster than a manual could. A related fact is worth keeping: Centipede, released in 1981, used a trackball and was co-designed by Dona Bailey, one of the relatively few women designing major arcade games at the time. The cabinet may be forty years old; the frustration of missing by one pixel remains completely current.