29 Apr
2025
29 Apr
'25
5:04 p.m.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(1973_video_game)
On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM Brian "Beej" Hall <beej(a)beej.us> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 04:25:52PM +1000, Jonathan
Gray wrote:
On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 06:12:55PM -0700, Brian
"Beej" Hall wrote:
Oooo, that seems like a good lead--very, very similar. The games are
contemporary, too.
I'd classify it as "highly probably". :)
Now I gotta find a copy of that game. I found a scan of the instructions
and there are photos of the game board itself out there.
Thanks!
Still dying to know who wrote the computer version. I can't help but
wonder if it really came out of Bell Labs or maybe that's just a
mistake.
Cheers,
-Beej
--
Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall
beej(a)beej.us https://beej.us/
_Conquest_ is an old game that apparently came to
life in Bell Labs,
but no one seems to know anything more about it, including who the
author is.
An implementation of the Stellar Conquest board game?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_Conquest