A strange little side quest
Before the next round of Billiards Master Pro, here is a piece of the bigger picture. Basketball became an Olympic medal sport in 1936, while women’s basketball joined the Olympic programme in 1976. The same trail leads to another fact: Pong was field-tested in California bars in 1972 and helped launch the modern arcade-game era. That long chain of experiments is part of why sports history still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
