urgh you are right, no idea why my brain jumped to korea :-/ Also note that last man standing with shrinking play zone was the multiplayer experience of the Bo

urgh you are right, no idea why my brain jumped to korea :-/ Also note that last man standing with shrinking play zone was the multiplayer experience of the Bomberman game series, going back as far as 1983, but the japanese battle royal novel may have been inspired more by other "winner takes all" or "last survivor" patterns in popular culture and games that are far older. (wrestling and boxing, to be precise which included more "multiplayer" in the past than today). I wonder where the novel took the "forbidden zones" idea from, that became PUBGs "bombardment zones"