A strange little side quest
The fun part of looking behind Smart Ball Colors is seeing how many older ideas are still alive in modern play. Doom changed game design and distribution in 1993 by separating its engine from content and spreading widely through shareware. The surprising part is how quickly the next milestone followed. Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. So a round of Smart Ball Colors is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer action games timeline.
