A strange little side quest
The next time Imperia Online asks for one more try, remember that game ideas rarely appear from nowhere. Chess changed dramatically in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries when the queen became the board's most powerful piece. The timeline takes another interesting turn: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. That gives Imperia Online a little more company than it first appears to have.
