A strange little side quest
The fun part of looking behind Horse with a Human Mask on a Tightrope is seeing how many older ideas are still alive in modern play. Boxing entered the modern Olympic Games in 1904 at St. Louis. The timeline takes another interesting turn: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. So a round of Horse with a Human Mask on a Tightrope is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer combat sports timeline.
