A strange little side quest
There is a neat bit of history hiding behind the kind of play you find in Swipe Top. Street Fighter II, released in 1991, turned head-to-head arcade fighting into a worldwide phenomenon and helped define the modern fighting-game genre. That is only half the story. Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. That is the kind of background detail that makes another attempt at Swipe Top feel a bit more connected to the history of play.
