Pirates vs Ninjas

A strange little side quest

The mechanics around Pirates vs Ninjas have roots that stretch far beyond modern browsers. Boxing entered the modern Olympic Games in 1904 at St. Louis. The same trail leads to another fact: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.