A strange little side quest
The fun part of looking behind Kill-Boi 9000 is seeing how many older ideas are still alive in modern play. Boxing entered the modern Olympic Games in 1904 at St. Louis. A second detail makes the picture even better: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. It is a good reminder that simple game mechanics can carry a surprising amount of history.