A strange little side quest
Here is a rabbit hole for the next loading screen in Cross Stitch: The Oregon Trail began in 1971 when three student teachers created a computer simulation to help Minnesota schoolchildren learn American history. That old idea kept changing rather than disappearing. 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. So a round of Cross Stitch is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer learning games timeline.
