Mugwump is an early video game where the user is tasked with finding four “Mugwumps” that are randomly hidden on a 10×10 grid. It is a text-based game written in BASIC. The user enters a pair of single-digit co-ordinates in the range from [...]
Highnoon is a BASIC game developed by Christopher Gaylo from Syosset High School, New York in early 1970 on a timeshared mainframe computer. The game is single-player and set in the Wild West in 1889. The objective of the game is a showdown between the [...]
Empire is a 4X wargame created in 1971 by Peter Langston, taking its name from the Reed College board game of the same name. In 1973, Empire resurfaced under the name Civilization on an HP2000 minicomputer at Evergreen State College. The game was written [...]
Hamurabi is a text-based game of land and resource management and is one of the earliest computer games. 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 [...]
