A strange little side quest
One reason action games keeps producing good game ideas around Big-Battle Tanks is that its history is full of strange turns. Space Invaders arrived in 1978 and helped turn electronic games from an arcade curiosity into mainstream entertainment. The timeline takes another interesting turn: Computer Space reached arcades in 1971 and became one of the earliest commercial electronic arcade games, even though its controls proved demanding for many players. So a round of Big-Battle Tanks is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer action games timeline.
