A strange little side quest
Zoom out from Bazooka Chaos for a moment and the timeline gets surprisingly deep. M.U.L.E. arrived in 1983 with multiplayer competition built around gathering resources and keeping a colony alive, an early example of resource-driven strategy play. The same trail leads to another fact: Gun Fight reached arcades in 1975 and became the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. The screen is modern; the urge to test skill, pattern and timing definitely is not.