When Google Stadia launched it was alongside a display of video game history consisting of just three items: a Dreamcast, a PowerGlove, and a copy of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial on the Atari. Respectively, those are a console that shuttered the hardware division of Sega, a peripheral that was infamously poor for playing games, and the game that crashed the video game industry in the early ‘80s. What, exactly, Google intended to confer with this display is lost to time, as is Stadia itself.
