Stick Fighter

A strange little side quest

The fun part of looking behind Stick Fighter is seeing how many older ideas are still alive in modern play. Women's boxing made its Olympic debut at London 2012. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: Space Invaders, released in 1978, helped push video games into mainstream popular culture. That is the kind of background detail that makes another attempt at Stick Fighter feel a bit more connected to the history of play.