A strange little side quest
Punch Kid KnockOut has plenty of company in a long tradition of players chasing timing, patterns and better decisions. 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. It is a good reminder that simple game mechanics can carry a surprising amount of history.