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Hamurabi

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Engine
BASIC
Genres
Strategy · Educational, Historical
Platforms
PDP-8

Hamurabi is a text-based game of land and resource management and is one of the earliest computer games. It was originally written in FOCAL in 1968, but it was ported to BASIC in 1971. Like many BASIC games of the time, Hamurabi was mainly a game of numeric input. As the ruler, the player could buy and sell land, purchase grain and decide how much grain to release to his kingdom.

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You play as Hammurabi and must improve life for your citizens over 10 years and survive through incoming plagues, the main goal of the game is to remain in power and increase the amount of land per citizen.Read more

You play as Hammurabi and must improve life for your citizens over 10 years and survive through incoming plagues, the main goal of the game is to remain in power and increase the amount of land per citizen.

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Single player
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Text
Keywords
god game, management, farming, prehistoric, economy
… All 11, text adventure, presidential protagonist, monarchy, supply and demand, macromanagement, based on - true story
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