A strange little side quest
If Battleships Ready Go! sends you down a curiosity rabbit hole, start here. Games resembling checkers were being played thousands of years ago; evidence of related games reaches back to around 1600 BC. And then there is this: Pong was field-tested in California bars in 1972 and helped launch the modern arcade-game era. So a round of Battleships Ready Go! is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer strategy games timeline.