A strange little side quest
Zoom out from Doctor Teeth for a moment and the timeline gets surprisingly deep. Reader Rabbit's 1986 arrival was part of a major expansion of educational computer software before the CD-ROM boom of the 1990s. The surprising part is how quickly the next milestone followed. M.U.L.E. arrived in 1983 with multiplayer competition built around gathering resources and keeping a colony alive, an early example of resource-driven strategy play. That is the kind of background detail that makes another attempt at Doctor Teeth feel a bit more connected to the history of play.