[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by Friendly_flyer

Quite, but the question is how the landscape would differ. From literature, I would expect the landscape to be more small scale: Smaller fields, smaller roads, smaller farms (and more of them). The woodlots would probably have been larger and/or more numerous, and the suburbs would be much, much smaller than present, owing to smaller total population.

The hedgerows (if I remember this correctly) would have been more common than today.

Can you think of any good reasons why an arcade game with a tiny map would be able to include more trees and smaller fields than sim with a very large map?