A strange little side quest
Before the next round of Game Over, Cheater! Moderator Madness, here is a piece of the bigger picture. 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. It also connects to a different milestone: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. That gives Game Over, Cheater! Moderator Madness a little more company than it first appears to have.
