A strange little side quest
The fun part of looking behind Battle Tank is seeing how many older ideas are still alive in modern play. Space Invaders arrived in 1978 and helped turn electronic games from an arcade curiosity into mainstream entertainment. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: Pong was field-tested in California bars in 1972 and helped launch the modern arcade-game era. That is the kind of background detail that makes another attempt at Battle Tank feel a bit more connected to the history of play.
