A strange little side quest
Chuck Norris in Attack of the Massacre Ninjas may feel immediate, but the ideas around action games have been evolving for a very long time. Gun Fight reached arcades in 1975 and became the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. The surprising part is how quickly the next milestone followed. Boxing entered the modern Olympic Games in 1904 at St. Louis. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.
