A strange little side quest
The fun part of looking behind Farm Frenzy 2 is seeing how many older ideas are still alive in modern play. 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. The timeline takes another interesting turn: Pong was field-tested in California bars in 1972 and helped launch the modern arcade-game era. So a round of Farm Frenzy 2 is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer simulation games timeline.
