A strange little side quest
Sue's Diet has plenty of company in a long tradition of players chasing timing, patterns and better decisions. Electric refrigeration reached the American mass market in the late 1920s, changing how households stored food and even how desserts such as ice cream could be made at home. The broader history adds one more wrinkle. Reader Rabbit's 1986 arrival was part of a major expansion of educational computer software before the CD-ROM boom of the 1990s. It is a good reminder that simple game mechanics can carry a surprising amount of history.
