Portal:Games/Did you know/1

• ...that Tom Hanks was in a 1982 TV movie called Mazes and Monsters about a group of college students and their interest in the eponymous role-playing game?
• ...that the golden age of arcade video games began with the release of Space Invaders in 1978?
• ...that the most famous boardwalk in the United States is probably the one in Atlantic City, New Jersey, thanks to its association with the Monopoly board game?
• ...that Pepsi offered a Harrier fighter jet in their Pepsi Billion Dollar Sweepstakes game and the Pepsi Stuff game?
• ...that 1956 was the first time when a computer was able to play a chess-like game, Los Alamos chess (pictured)?