A strange little side quest
The rules may be simple on screen, but the backstory around Net Pet is anything but tiny. 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. That old idea kept changing rather than disappearing. In 1958, Tennis for Two used an analog computer and an oscilloscope to turn simple physics into a playable tennis-like demonstration. So a round of Net Pet is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer food history timeline.
