A strange little side quest
The fun part of looking behind Parking Lot Jam is seeing how many older ideas are still alive in modern play. Formula 1 introduced pit-lane speed limits during the 1994 season as safety concerns grew around increasingly fast cars and busier pit lanes. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: 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. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.
