[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I think it was Hack, or maybe Rogue. The system admin geeks at the University played it during off-hours on the Sperry-Univac 1100 mainframe. This was in the summer of 1981.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I have a feeling 300WM may know the name of it. The game was a describe/respond type of game, like this...

"You see a corridor before you. What do you do?
"Go north"
"You go north. There is a door in front of you. What do you do?"
"Open door"

etc., etc., etc.

[Ramius]

Yah. Okay.

Hamurabi was a game that I used to play as a little kid on my uncle's Heathkit 16k machine. Had to load it from cassette using a panasonic tape recorder. I have little memory of it beyond that. Perhaps this is a good thing.

It was a game that was a precursor to the "sim" type games now. You had to allocate resources to producing bread, and weapons. Then had to deal with internal uprisings and external threats. Not bad, really, for a game that would run off of a tape recorder. :-)

[300winmag]

I think it was Hack, or maybe Rogue. The system admin geeks at the University played it during off-hours on the Sperry-Univac 1100 mainframe. This was in the summer of 1981.

I loved those games. I still play them on my Palm Pilot, rather than on a mainframe.