1973: 40th anniversary of Gotcha
Let’s enter the way-back machine – before Donkey Kong, before Pac-Man, before Space invaders, there was Gotcha. Atari’s Gotcha was an early arcade game and the first commercially successful maze game. Its premise was quite simple: two players weaved their way around a maze, one the “pursuer,” the other the “pursued.” Points were scored when the pursuer caught the pursued, and the game started over.
