A strange little side quest
Between one round of Dead Samurai and the next, this is worth knowing: Boxing entered the modern Olympic Games in 1904 at St. Louis. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: Street Fighter II, released in 1991, turned head-to-head arcade fighting into a worldwide phenomenon and helped define the modern fighting-game genre. It is a good reminder that simple game mechanics can carry a surprising amount of history.