Asteroids (1979)

Atari's Asteroids upright, its marquee lit and its side art streaked with the trails of spinning rocks. Released in 1979, it drew on a black-and-white vector monitor, so the ship and asteroids are bright lines rather than pixels, and they glow on the glass in a way no flat screen reproduces. Look at the control panel: there is no joystick at all, just five buttons for rotating left and right, thrust, fire and hyperspace. Learning to drift and turn with buttons is half the skill.