1 янв 1977 г. - "Gremlin Girls"

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Long before anyone was wasting hours of their day playing Snake on their Nokia phone circa the early 2000s, two young women by the names of Sabrina Osment and Lynn Reid were absolutely crushing Snake. Except it wasn’t called Snake, it was called Hustle. And Osment and Reid were hustlers if there ever was.

The year was 1977, and a San Diego video game company called Gremlin Industries had started to make some waves with a multiplayer game called Blockade. But after overshooting demand, Gremlin was left with an abundance of cabinets and monitors. Their solution was to roll out a series of arcade games that were variations on the same theme—the idea of a snake eating things and getting longer is a resonant one, even today. Shout out to Slither.io.

The company’s marketing plan for the new game, Hustle, was certainly inventive for the time: Gremlin enlisted Osment and Reid to go on a 19-city tournament style tour with the arcade game, during which players could challenge them for a chance to win money. And victors would come away with some legit bragging rights, too, because as it turns out, these so-called “Gremlin Girls” were really freaking good at what they did.

Any challenger was required to beat the girls two out of three times in order to declare victory, and they were given a crisp $100 bill as prize money. While there is some discrepancy over exactly how many challengers they faced, the general consensus is that they faced down somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,300 opponents, and were beaten a mere handful of times—one arcade historian places that number at 7. Based off those numbers, that means that across cities in the US and Europe, gaming buffs of that era had approximately a .005 percent chance of beating these gaming wonder women.

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