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This time I'm doing a Wikipedia trail starting at EVE Online .  EVE Online is an MMO space simulation game which is renowned for the freedom it gives. According to the wikipedia page, the players "engage in unscripted economic competition, warfare, and political schemes with other players". I played EVE for a while but I found it too complicated and gave up on it. At the moment, the game stands at around half a million subscribers  From there I went to  Wind Commander   which is a space simulation game from 1990. This was one of the first, if not the first space simulation game. It first released on MS-DOS initially, and many more platforms after that.  By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51354770 As you can see, Wing Commander was quite advanced for its time, when most games were as simple as Mario Brothers. Following that, I clicked on  science fiction , which is quite a broad subject, it...

Wikipedia Trail from Unity3D to Adolf Hitler

For this Wikipedia trail I have decided to step it up a notch and play the Wikipedia Hitler game, where you pick a random article (not random in my case) and try to get to Hitler in as little clicks as possible. I started with  the wikipedia page for Unity  and decided to go from there. I learned a bit about Unity, for example, did you know that Unity is compatible with pretty much any platform? PC, Mac, consoles, VR headsets, Unity's got it all! I think that's pretty cool because you can just make your game once, rather than having to change parts of code for different systems and having to play around with that. Next I went to  C#  and I understood basically none of it (hint: if you switch the language in the link to "simple", it gives you the article in simpler words, so instead of en.wikipedia.com, you put in simple.wikipedia.com). It was actually designed by Microsoft ! So that was my next stop. Microsoft's page has an image of Buzz Aldrin using their Ho...