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Atari's tank game drew its battlefield as glowing wireframe outlines viewed through a hooded periscope, giving arcade players an early taste of moving through a three-dimensional space rather than watching one from outside.
Few machines of the period asked players to imagine themselves inside the picture. This one did, and it demonstrated that a convincing sense of space mattered more than surface detail. The wireframe look also became shorthand for computer vision itself, borrowed by films, television titles and advertising for years afterward.
