A strange little side quest
A quick detour while Penguin Clicker Fiesta waits for your next move: 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 same trail leads to another fact: Pong was field-tested in California bars in 1972 and helped launch the modern arcade-game era. That long chain of experiments is part of why simulation games still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
