A strange little side quest
There is a neat bit of history hiding behind the kind of play you find in Mouse Raider. Cone-shaped wafers with cream were described in print before 1900, but the ice-cream cone became a major American fairground hit at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. The same trail leads to another fact: Modern chess traces back to the Indian game chaturanga, recorded around the sixth century and built around pieces representing parts of an army. So a round of Mouse Raider is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer food history timeline.
