A strange little side quest
Pocket Tennis may feel immediate, but the ideas around arcade history have been evolving for a very long time. Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. Another piece of context lands nicely beside it: Basketball became an Olympic medal sport in 1936, while women’s basketball joined the Olympic programme in 1976. That gives Pocket Tennis a little more company than it first appears to have.