A strange little side quest
One reason action games keeps producing good game ideas around TankBattle 2 Player is that its history is full of strange turns. Doom changed game design and distribution in 1993 by separating its engine from content and spreading widely through shareware. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: Atari's Gran Trak 10 from 1974 is recognized as the first arcade racing video game. So a round of TankBattle 2 Player is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer action games timeline.
