A strange little side quest
Even a quick game like Stan The Man sits on top of decades — and sometimes centuries — of ideas. Space Invaders arrived in 1978 and helped turn electronic games from an arcade curiosity into mainstream entertainment. The broader history adds one more wrinkle. Women competed in Olympic archery as early as 1904, making it one of the early Olympic sports to include women. That long chain of experiments is part of why action games still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
