A strange little side quest
Even a quick game like Crowd City Zoombie sits on top of decades — and sometimes centuries — of ideas. The Oregon Trail mixed travel, supplies, risk and survival decisions decades before resource-management systems became common in mainstream games. That is only half the story. Computer Space reached arcades in 1971 and became one of the earliest commercial electronic arcade games, even though its controls proved demanding for many players. That gives Crowd City Zoombie a little more company than it first appears to have.
