A strange little side quest
A little context makes Barry Has a Secret more fun to place on the gaming map. The Oregon Trail mixed travel, supplies, risk and survival decisions decades before resource-management systems became common in mainstream games. The surprising part is how quickly the next milestone followed. Pong was field-tested in California bars in 1972 and helped launch the modern arcade-game era. So a round of Barry Has a Secret is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer simulation games timeline.
