Hamurabi
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…
31 December 1968
Hamurabi is a strategy, released 31 December 1968 on PDP-8.
What Hamurabi is
Hamurabi was released in 1968. It is available on PDP-8 only. It runs on BASIC.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are educational and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
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Quick answers
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When did Hamurabi come out?
Hamurabi was released on 31 December 1968 for PDP-8.
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