M.U.L.E. is an early multiplayer video game written in 1983 by Dani Bunten of Ozark Softscape. It was published by Electronic Arts. Written for the Atari 400/800, it was ported to the Commodore 64, the Nintendo Entertainment System and the IBM PC Jr. While it played like a strategy game, it incorporates aspects that simulate economics.
M.U.L.E. is widely lauded by players and the gaming press. In 1996, Computer Gaming World named M.U.L.E. as #3 o...
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M.U.L.E. is an early multiplayer video game written in 1983 by Dani Bunten of Ozark Softscape. It was published by Electronic Arts. Written for the Atari 400/800, it was ported to the Commodore 64, the Nintendo Entertainment System and the IBM PC Jr. While it played like a strategy game, it incorporates aspects that simulate economics.
M.U.L.E. is widely lauded by players and the gaming press. In 1996, Computer Gaming World named M.U.L.E. as #3 on its Best Games of All Time list. Despite acclaim, the game only sold 30,000 copies.
M.U.L.E. has been updated and released on December 6, 2009 as a freeware version, with multiplayer capability over the internet.
Set on the fictional planet Irata (which is Atari backwards), the game is an exercise in supply and demand economics involving competition among four players, with computer opponents automatically filling in for any missing players. Players are provided with several different choices for the race of their colonist, providing...
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