A strange little side quest
One reason strategy games keeps producing good game ideas around Neon Tank Arena 3D is that its history is full of strange turns. Games resembling checkers were being played thousands of years ago; evidence of related games reaches back to around 1600 BC. The surprising part is how quickly the next milestone followed. Gun Fight reached arcades in 1975 and became the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. So a round of Neon Tank Arena 3D is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer strategy games timeline.
