The how old are you thread got me thinking of games from the past. I remembered a game from the early days and now that I look back it was, in a primitive way, very similar to playing Civilization. The game was called M.U.L.E., and was released in 1983 for the Atari and Commodore pc's of that era. It was highly addictive, and a pretty complex game for it's time. I would suffice that it is the game that got me hooked to civ type strategy gaming.

http://mule.eichberger.net/_imgs/about/mule-players.jpghttp://www.worldofmule.net/mule17.gif

Here's a couple of links which can describe it a little better than I can:

http://mule.eichberger.net/about.php
http://www.worldofmule.net/muleguid.htm

Did anyone else play this game and find it as addictive as I did back then? Or is it a truly obscure game that's all but been forgotten?

Wow... haven't seen that in a LOOOONG time. Brings back some fond memories. I had all but forgotten about it.

No but did you ever hear of a game called War and Peace. Really old game. On a floppy disk. It was very much like Civ IIRC.

Ah the days when you could fit computer games on floppy disks.

Lords of Conquest. Remember that? Four different resource types.

Edit: And floppy discs? I remember when you could store a game on an audiocassette!

Ah, how I loved this game! And even the intro music rocked! In fact, ait it's time M.U.L.E. was the only game that in my view was a real competition to Ultima IV (nothing in common, just the addictiveness).


And btw: The way how trade was realized in M.U.L.E. was something Firaxis could learn lots about. Beats all that "diplomacy" in CIV hands down.

For its time M.U.L.E. was fascinating, yes. I recall when it and similar games came out thinking "Wow! This sure beats the 'games' I've been playing on mainframes and homebrew boxen for the past fourteen years. Surely gaming on a computer couldn't get much better than this."

=@.@= I ought to've been far more optimistic. =^_^=

Oh great, now I'll have the intro music playing in my head for the rest of the evening. 'Twas a cool game.

Hi,

Oh great, now I'll have the intro music playing in my head for the rest of the evening.
There's an easy remedy for that...

clicky (http://remix.kwed.org/index.php?search=m.u.l.e)

:D

What a great game M.U.L.E is...sometimes, I fire up my c64 emulator just to play it again. A true classic!

-Kylearan

Thread moved to All Other Games

I wasn't even BORN when it came out...

And floppy discs? I remember when you could store a game on an audiocassette!LOL Who can forget popping in a cassette and waiting 10 minutes for a cutting edge game to load up? The last one I recall playing on cassette was Castle Wolfenstein, the game which the infamous Wolfenstein 3D game (first FPS ever) was based off of.
Oh great, now I'll have the intro music playing in my head for the rest of the evening. 'Twas a cool game.I think it was one of the best game themes ever made. I hadn't even thought of it 'til you mentioned it, but it instantly played in my head. Amazing since it's been 20 years since I've heard it.

<sniff> All this nostalgia reminds of another game I was rather fond of... "Archon" anyone? A mid 80s pc game similar to playing chess.

OMG! I used to play archon all the time.

Took me forever to figure out how to play correctly. I couldn't understand why I kept loosing....

MULE! GET OUT!!!! I was thinking about this only the other day ... maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan I had some fun with that game ... my friends and I sat around a C64 when we should have been revising for exams! OH MAN, that takes me back!