A strange little side quest
There is a neat bit of history hiding behind the kind of play you find in Battle City. The Oregon Trail mixed travel, supplies, risk and survival decisions decades before resource-management systems became common in mainstream games. And then there is this: The word 'checkmate' is linked to the Persian expression 'shah mat', used when the king was trapped. That long chain of experiments is part of why simulation games still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
