A strange little side quest
One reason strategy games keeps producing good game ideas around Nessie Alliance is that its history is full of strange turns. The word 'checkmate' is linked to the Persian expression 'shah mat', used when the king was trapped. It also connects to a different milestone: Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. So a round of Nessie Alliance is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer strategy games timeline.
