A strange little side quest
A little context makes Audrey's Toy Shop more fun to place on the gaming map. M.U.L.E. arrived in 1983 with multiplayer competition built around gathering resources and keeping a colony alive, an early example of resource-driven strategy play. Another piece of context lands nicely beside it: Pac-Man went on sale in 1980, and its creator Toru Iwatani famously linked the character's shape to a pizza with a slice missing. That long chain of experiments is part of why simulation games still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
