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Frogger turned crossing a road into a perfect arcade premise by making every lane a moving timing puzzle with almost no explanation required. Meanwhile, the mechanics tell a second story: A score display gives failure a souvenir. The run ends, but the number remains as evidence that the next coin has a target. Three initials can contain an unreasonable amount of pride when they sit above everybody else's score.

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Breakout was designed around the idea of Pong turned sideways and played against a wall of bricks. A tiny mechanical change created a completely different genre of game. The next fact takes a different route: 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.