A strange little side quest
Snail Bob 5: Love Story belongs to a much longer story of play than a browser tab might suggest. By the 1890s, department stores and mail-order catalogs were selling mass-produced ready-to-wear clothes in standardized styles and price ranges. The same trail leads to another fact: Arthur Wynne published a diamond-shaped 'Word-Cross' in the New York World on December 21, 1913; the name later shifted to 'Cross-Word' and then 'crossword'. Grombi files that under: small game, surprisingly large backstory.
