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Wave structure is elegant pacing: the same controls can feel new when speed, quantity, spacing or enemy behavior changes between rounds. That connects nicely with a historical detail: Frogger turned crossing a road into a perfect arcade premise by making every lane a moving timing puzzle with almost no explanation required. Old arcade sound effects are short because they had a difficult job: be heard over every other old arcade sound effect.

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The fun-history drawer

Arcade joysticks and buttons are brutally simple interfaces, but experts can develop incredibly precise muscle memory. The cabinet looks like furniture until someone plays it at championship speed. A second piece of trivia is just as good: Q*bert debuted in 1982 with a pyramid of cubes drawn in a pseudo-3D perspective. Its title character even swore in a made-up symbol language when things went wrong, decades before emoji made that sort of thing feel normal.