A strange little side quest
One reason action games keeps producing good game ideas around Dead Bunker is that its history is full of strange turns. Doom changed game design and distribution in 1993 by separating its engine from content and spreading widely through shareware. And then there is this: Pong was field-tested in California bars in 1972 and helped launch the modern arcade-game era. The screen is modern; the urge to test skill, pattern and timing definitely is not.