Internal resource allocation
Activities theme
Player can or must manage resource (energy, fuel, oxygen, etc.) allocation within a single system, such as a vehicle.
18
games
7platforms
Alternate names: Energy allocation, Power management
Name variations: resource distribution
WIN 2006-12-06
DOS 1996-09
WIN 2012-09-14
DOS 1994
WIN 2015-07-17
DOS 1992
DOS 1992
WIN 1997-04
WIN 2010-02-02
WIN 2014-04-18
Most commonly seen in sci-fi space flight games where the player manages energy distribution between various spacecraft systems (usually propulsion, shields and weapons). Also commonly any excess energy to a system is essentially "lost" which gives more reason to actually micromanage it, though since the energy equally commonly limitless there's no real hurry in doing this.
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The first Internal resource allocation video game was released on November 1982.
Subset Games and Epic Megagames published most of these games.