Forty years ago, one addictive computer game pioneered a subgenre
In 1985, the idea of mashing buttons next to your friend while two digital characters pummeled each other wasn’t exactly commonplace. While 1976’s arcade game Heavyweight Champ and 1984’s Karate Champ came first, the idea of a fighting game being something you could do at home was truly pioneered in the summer of 1985 by a home computer game called The Way of the Exploding Fist.
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