A strange little side quest
Even a quick game like Storm The House sits on top of decades — and sometimes centuries — of ideas. Gun Fight reached arcades in 1975 and became the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: Modern chess traces back to the Indian game chaturanga, recorded around the sixth century and built around pieces representing parts of an army. That long chain of experiments is part of why action games still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
