The Arcade
“What do you think is the best, a game you think you can finish, but never do, or a game that seems impossible to win, but isn’t?”
Corewars
Corewars is a game about writing viruses (aka. warriors) in assembly (specifically Redcode). Redcode is a RISC assembly with niche features like multithreading and relative addressing. Your warrior is then loaded into the core (a VM, usually pMARS) together with another warrior. The warriors compete with each other to trick the other into terminating themselves. The most reliable way to accomplish this is to modify the opponents memory (i.e. instructions or jump addresses). Each warrior fights against multiple other warriors to eventually be rated and get a rank on the hill (or not). Get the first rank to become king of the hill!
Mother
Let me take you back to a fateful Saturday in the summer of 1988. My day begins as I violently hit the floor, immediately followed by my bedside lamp. Jolted awake by a terrible nightmare, I must have grabbed for it when I sensed myself falling. As I regain my bearings, the last fragments of that night fade away. I realize the lamp is smashed into a thousand pieces; shards of glass litter the floor. Mother will be angry, but there’s nothing I can do about it anyway.