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Shooting Games

Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor, a hardware change that helped make more complex animation practical. Meanwhile, the mechanics tell a second story. Respawn timers are social pacing tools in multiplayer: too short and mistakes feel meaningless; too long and the punishment becomes watching everyone else have fun. Every shooter contains at least one doorway that looked perfectly safe until it wasn't.

  • FPS & action
  • Aim challenges
  • Tactical battles

Tiny fact jackpot

Spacewar!, created in 1962, is one of the earliest influential computer games built around aiming and firing. Two tiny spacecraft duel around a star whose gravity constantly bends their paths. Another rabbit hole starts here: Computer Space, released in 1971, was one of the first commercially sold arcade video games. Its space-combat controls were difficult enough that players sometimes needed instructions before they could even enjoy the fight.