A strange little side quest
Zoom out from Catatattack! for a moment and the timeline gets surprisingly deep. Atari's Gran Trak 10 from 1974 is recognized as the first arcade racing video game, decades before modern 3D racers. The surprising part is how quickly the next milestone followed. Boxing entered the modern Olympic Games in 1904 at St. Louis. So a round of Catatattack! is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer racing timeline.