Physics Sandbox

A strange little side quest

Even a quick game like Physics Sandbox sits on top of decades — and sometimes centuries — of ideas. Pong was field-tested in California bars in 1972 and helped launch the modern arcade-game era. That old idea kept changing rather than disappearing. Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. So a round of Physics Sandbox is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer video-game history timeline.