A strange little side quest
Virtual Online Piano may feel immediate, but the ideas around simulation games have been evolving for a very long time. 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. And the history keeps stacking up: Women competed in Olympic archery as early as 1904, making it one of the early Olympic sports to include women. The details change, but the appeal of learning a system and trying again is remarkably persistent.
