Arcade & Classic Games · 87

Simple controls age well because new players can discover the entire input vocabulary in seconds, leaving the interesting part—timing and decisions—to carry the challenge. The category's past supplies the companion fact: Asteroids used crisp vector graphics in 1979, drawing luminous lines instead of filling the screen with conventional pixel artwork. Arcade games specialize in the sentence 'I know exactly what to do,' immediately followed by not doing it.