Civilization

created and published by Author in 1970, running on DEC PDP-1

type: manag./econ.
series: 101 BASIC Computer Games Series
perspective: other
player options: single player

languages: eng

Technical specs

display: raster

Editor note

Written in BASIC for the HP2000 platform. This game influenced many future game developers, book writers and movie makers. It was lost forever when administrators at Evergreen State College decided to get a different computer system. Countless works of art on the HP2000 were erased without mercy. Co-creator, Peter S. Langston recreated the game in the C language on a PDP 11/45 running UNIX; he decided to rename it Empire. Independently, Co-creator Ben Norton used PASCAL to recreate the game on an HP3000; he also decided to call it Empire