A strange little side quest
The next time Dream Supermarket: 3D Shop asks for one more try, remember that game ideas rarely appear from nowhere. 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. And the history keeps stacking up: Space Invaders, released in 1978, helped push video games into mainstream popular culture. So a round of Dream Supermarket: 3D Shop is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer simulation games timeline.
