Ice Cream Serve Up

A strange little side quest

The rules may be simple on screen, but the backstory around Ice Cream Serve Up is anything but tiny. A major archery competition held at Finsbury in England in 1583 drew about 3,000 participants. A second detail makes the picture even better: The Oregon Trail mixed travel, supplies, risk and survival decisions decades before resource-management systems became common in mainstream games. Not bad for a few facts hiding behind a Play button.