A strange little side quest
A small trivia drop for Family Nest Royal Society: Farm Bay Adventures: The Oregon Trail mixed travel, supplies, risk and survival decisions decades before resource-management systems became common in mainstream games. That old idea kept changing rather than disappearing. Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. That long chain of experiments is part of why simulation games still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
