A strange little side quest
Stick Tennis may feel immediate, but the ideas around sports history have been evolving for a very long time. Archery was already on the Olympic programme in 1900, boxing joined the modern Games in 1904, and basketball became a medal sport in 1936. The timeline takes another interesting turn: Pong was field-tested in California bars in 1972 and helped launch the modern arcade-game era. That long chain of experiments is part of why sports history still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
