A strange little side quest
One reason action games keeps producing good game ideas around Gunners is that its history is full of strange turns. Gun Fight reached arcades in 1975 and became the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. And the history keeps stacking up: Archery first appeared at the Olympic Games in 1900 and returned permanently to the programme in 1972 after a long absence. That long chain of experiments is part of why action games still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
