Hamurabi
released on Dec 31, 1968
A remake of The Sumerian Game
Hamurabi is a text-based game of land and resource management and is one of the earliest computer games. It was originally written in FOCAL in 1968, but it was ported to BASIC in 1971. Like many BASIC games of the time, Hamurabi was mainly a game of numeric input. As the ruler, the player could buy and sell land, purchase grain and decide how much grain to release to his kingdom.
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Entertaining, surprisingly so for a super simple 56-year-old game. If anything, it made me want to play the other, more advanced clones that sadly didn't seem to make it to the modern day... i can't be arsed to compile them myself.
Actually not a bad game if you look it up on itch.io
Pure RNG, but it can be fun in the first attempts.
Christ Hammurabi would have been unstoppable if he just had a Calculator.
ALL HAIL THE NATIONAL FINK
BORING!!! 10 rounds with the same repetitive inputs. It's entirely trial-and-error getting past day one. Complete ludonarrative dissonance. Rubbish mate