Does anyone remember Alternate Reality: The City during the C64 Era? It was one of the first (if not The first) open-world city game. It was a big, grid-based city, like in The Bard’s Tale and others of that ilk, except instead of moving in 10’ blocks, each grid square was divided into steps- it took 5 or six to go one block (you still turned in 90° increments, though). It had a day/night cycle, hunger mechanics, shops, but no real plot I ever found- you were just a normal person abducted by aliens and dropped in this fantasy city, and had to learn to live there. Anyway, I mapped out that whole city on grid paper, step by step, and it was hard, because the game was damn brutal- you started with no real equipment and stats were assigned basically by a slot-machine-style series of spinning wheels. Good times.