A strange little side quest
Even a quick game like GUNROX - Gang Wars sits on top of decades — and sometimes centuries — of ideas. Gun Fight reached arcades in 1975 and became the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. The broader history adds one more wrinkle. Modern chess traces back to the Indian game chaturanga, recorded around the sixth century and built around pieces representing parts of an army. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.