A strange little side quest
The fun part of looking behind 2 Player Mini Battles is seeing how many older ideas are still alive in modern play. A major archery competition held at Finsbury in England in 1583 drew about 3,000 participants. The broader history adds one more wrinkle. Boxing entered the modern Olympic Games in 1904 at St. Louis. The screen is modern; the urge to test skill, pattern and timing definitely is not.