A strange little side quest
One reason role-playing games keeps producing good game ideas around Treasures of the World is that its history is full of strange turns. Early computer role-playing games helped turn rules, inventories, exploration and character progression into systems that could support long-form digital adventures. The same trail leads to another fact: Midway's Gun Fight from 1975 was the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor. That long chain of experiments is part of why role-playing games still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
