A strange little side quest
The rules may be simple on screen, but the backstory around Sandboxels is anything but tiny. SimCity grew out of Will Wright's enjoyment of the map editor he had built for an earlier game; the act of shaping a city became the game itself. That is only half the story. Street Fighter II, released in 1991, turned head-to-head arcade fighting into a worldwide phenomenon and helped define the modern fighting-game genre. Grombi files that under: small game, surprisingly large backstory.
