A strange little side quest
Put Ferrous Fight next to the history of strategy games and a few unexpected connections appear. Modern chess traces back to the Indian game chaturanga, recorded around the sixth century and built around pieces representing parts of an army. And then there is this: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. So a round of Ferrous Fight is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer strategy games timeline.
