<div dir="ltr">Looks like one of many games that were influenced by Empire, originally written by John Daleske in early 1973 at Iowa State for the PLATO system.<div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(1973_video_game)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(1973_video_game)</a><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM Brian "Beej" Hall <<a href="mailto:beej@beej.us">beej@beej.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 04:25:52PM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 06:12:55PM -0700, Brian "Beej" Hall wrote:<br>
> > _Conquest_ is an old game that apparently came to life in Bell Labs,<br>
> > but no one seems to know anything more about it, including who the<br>
> > author is.<br>
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> An implementation of the Stellar Conquest board game?<br>
> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_Conquest" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_Conquest</a><br>
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Oooo, that seems like a good lead--very, very similar. The games are<br>
contemporary, too.<br>
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I'd classify it as "highly probably". :)<br>
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Now I gotta find a copy of that game. I found a scan of the instructions<br>
and there are photos of the game board itself out there.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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Still dying to know who wrote the computer version. I can't help but<br>
wonder if it really came out of Bell Labs or maybe that's just a<br>
mistake.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
-Beej<br>
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-- <br>
Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall<br>
<a href="mailto:beej@beej.us" target="_blank">beej@beej.us</a> <a href="https://beej.us/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://beej.us/</a><br>
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