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Hamurabi (Video Game)

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Hamurabi (Video Game)
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Hamurabi
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Hamurabi is a text-based and turn-based video game written by Doug Dyment in 1968 in the FOCAL language under the name The Sumer Game and ported to BASIC by David H. Ahl. It was inspired by the 1964 game The Sumerian Game.This game then was spread, with other games written in BASIC, by the book BASIC Computer Games, first published in 1973.In this game, in order to prevent a famine, the player had to manage the production of grain of a city, measured in bushels, by allocating some to planting, some to consumption by citizens and the remainder to stocking in silos, which could be attacked by rats; he was also able to buy and sell acres of farmland.At the tenth year, the player was ranked relative to historical rulers, a system which was later reused by Sid Meier in his Civilization.This game was a precursor for other management and simulation games.You can play here and here, the BASIC code source is available here and a C99 port here.
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Practical Currency
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Practical Currency: The bushels of grain produced by your fields can be used to buy additional land.
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Land of One City
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Land of One City: The original version has Ur as setting.
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Command & Conquer Economy
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Command & Conquer Economy: You allocate the grain production between stocking, eating and planting. Played even more straight in King, where you play the Premier of the Communist island of Setats Detinu.
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The Caligula
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The Caligula: If the player caused many deaths by starvation/didn't ensure enough land per person, the game will say, at the end, that "[your] heavy handed performance smacks of Nero and Ivan IV" and that the survivors "hate your guts."
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You Lose at Zero Trust
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You Lose at Zero Trust: If more than 45% of the population starve in a year, the player is deposed and "declared 'National Fink'."
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The Famine
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The Famine: The gameplay is centered around avoiding this outcome, and starving subjects can cause the player to have issues ranging from simply losing persons to flat-out losing.
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Merchant Prince
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Merchant Prince: Santa Paravia. You're a petty knight and try to win the throne through your successful business dealings.
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Tyop on the Cover
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Tyop on the Cover: The ancient king was named "Hammurabi" but the creator either forgot a 'm' or wanted to keep the name within the eight-character limit. Lampshaded by the presentation of this game in BASIC Computer Games:
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Luck-Based Mission
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Luck-Based Mission: Plagues can make things much easier by reducing how many people you need to feed and increasing your acreage per citizen, but they're completely random. The fluctuations in land prices and especially the size of the harvest can randomly screw you, though handling these situations well when they do happen is part of the game.
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Commie Land
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Commie Land: Setats Detinunote United States reversed, in the spin-off King, is stated as being a Communist country.
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Blue Blood
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Blue Blood: Nobility is one of the cosial of Santa Paravia.
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Ur-Example
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Ur-Example: This game was a precursor for many of the features of the resource management games.
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Rape, Pillage, and Burn
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Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Unpaid mercenaries in "Dukedom'' tend to steal grain, kill some serfs and rape the women, raising the birth rate - the authors even comment "these are not ordinary mercenaries."
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Timed Mission
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Timed Mission: For many of the games, the goal is to survive a certain number of years without being overthrown by disaster. Santa Paravia, however, plays this straight; you have only a random number of years before you die of old age, and your job is to climb to the top before time runs out.
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Older Than the NES
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Older Than the NES: First version in FOCAL released in 1968 and BASIC version in 1973.
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Construct Additional Pylons
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Construct Additional Pylons: You might have to buy additional farmland to feed your growing population.
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Updated Re-release
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Updated Re-release: The 1973 BASIC version, which added an end-of-game performance summary, among other things.
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Wizard Needs Food Badly
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Wizard Needs Food Badly: If your subjects don't get enough food, they will starve and die.
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Video Game Cruelty Potential
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Video Game Cruelty Potential: You can starve part of your subjects so as to be able to buy farmland or, simply, to be able to not feed useless eaters. However, Dukedom punishes players who starve their serfs while there is enough food in the granaries.
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You Require More Vespene Gas
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You Require More Vespene Gas: If you don't feed your citizens enough, they will revolt and depose you.
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