A strange little side quest
One reason action games keeps producing good game ideas around Endless Z Survivor is that its history is full of strange turns. Space Invaders arrived in 1978 and helped turn electronic games from an arcade curiosity into mainstream entertainment. The surprising part is how quickly the next milestone followed. Modern chess traces back to the Indian game chaturanga, recorded around the sixth century and built around pieces representing parts of an army. That gives Endless Z Survivor a little more company than it first appears to have.