Empire (1977 video game)
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For other games with the name, see Empire (disambiguation) § Gaming.
Empire is a 1977 turn-based wargame with simple rules. The game was conceived by Walter Bright starting in 1971, based on various war films and board games, notably Battle of Britain and Risk.[1] The game was ported to many platforms in the 1970s and 1980s. Several commercial versions were also released, often adding basic graphics to the originally text-based user interface. The basic gameplay is strongly reminiscent of several later games, notably Civilization, which was partly inspired by Empire.[2]
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Developer(s) | Walter Bright Mark Baldwin (1987–1990s) Bob Rakosky (1990s) Mark Kinkead (2001–present) |
Publisher(s) | Interstel (1987) New World Computing (1993) Killer Bee Software (2002, 2004) |
Designer(s) | Walter Bright/Mark Baldwin (Deluxe) Mark Kinkead (Enhanced) |
Platform(s) | PDP-10 (1977), ~1987 (Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64, Apple II, Macintosh, MS-DOS), Windows (1993, 2002, 2004) |
Release | 1977, 1987–1988, 1993, 2002, 2004 |
Genre(s) | Strategy, wargame, 4x |
Mode(s) | Single-player or multiplayer |
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