A strange little side quest
Grombi trivia break for Iron Tank: M.U.L.E. arrived in 1983 with multiplayer competition built around gathering resources and keeping a colony alive, an early example of resource-driven strategy play. That old idea kept changing rather than disappearing. Games resembling checkers were being played thousands of years ago; evidence of related games reaches back to around 1600 BC. So a round of Iron Tank is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer simulation games timeline.
