A strange little side quest
If Hot Sky sends you down a curiosity rabbit hole, start here. Games resembling checkers were being played thousands of years ago; evidence of related games reaches back to around 1600 BC. And then there is this: Gun Fight reached arcades in 1975 and became the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. That long chain of experiments is part of why strategy games still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.