A strange little side quest
Between one round of The Legend of El Dorado and the next, this is worth knowing: Atari's Gran Trak 10 from 1974 is recognized as the first arcade racing video game. A second detail makes the picture even better: 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 long chain of experiments is part of why arcade history still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
