A strange little side quest
A small trivia drop for Battle City Tank: SimCity grew out of Will Wright's enjoyment of the map editor he had built for an earlier game; the act of shaping a city became the game itself. The surprising part is how quickly the next milestone followed. Games resembling checkers were being played thousands of years ago; evidence of related games reaches back to around 1600 BC. It is a good reminder that simple game mechanics can carry a surprising amount of history.
