Hamurabi

a.k.a. The Sumer Game

created and published by Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society in 1971, running on DEC PDP-1
type: strategy, manag./econ.
genre: The Sumer Game-like
series: 101 BASIC Computer Games Series
setting: Past
perspective: other
player options: single player
languages: eng
3.8/5

Description

The simplicity of its gameplay made it easy to understand but hard to master, which inspired many aspiring programmers to create translations and imitations of the game. The most famous example was David H. Ahl’s Hamurabi in 1971, which was a simple conversion of King of Sumeria from its original FOCAL programming language into the far more accessible DEC BASIC.

Becoro # 2023-04-06 19:07:50 - source

Technical specs

hardware: PDP-8 platform,
display: raster

Editor note

https://archive.org/details/hamurabi.qb64

https://studybreaks.com/tvfilm/the-sumerian-game-forgotten-video-game-landmark/

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/30058/Hammurabi

# 2023-04-06 19:17:22

Authors / Staff

author

Doug Dyment (Author)

coding

David H. Ahl (Programmer)

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