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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. A related fact is worth keeping: Defender made horizontal scrolling central to its 1981 action, forcing players to think about danger beyond a single fixed screen. The safest pattern works perfectly until the game becomes fast enough to expose that it was never safe.

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Pong was released by Atari in 1972 and became one of the first major arcade videogame hits. Its entire world is two paddles, one ball and the dangerous discovery that simple rules can eat an afternoon. And for something completely different: Donkey Kong introduced Mario in 1981, although he was originally known simply as Jumpman. His job was described as carpenter before later games permanently associated him with plumbing.