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Smithore for sale

roaring beast — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:17:35 -0800

Let's play M.U.L.E!

More info and updates on the classic game at World of M.U.L.E.

By: jbickers

jbickers — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:23:23 -0800

GET OUT OF TOWN! This is such good news ... thanks for this!

By: niles

niles — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:34:20 -0800

</confused> Ah. The flash intro isn't actually the game. Go to downloads for that.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:34:34 -0800

...what are the controls?

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:34:57 -0800

ah. duh.

By: abulafa

abulafa — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:39:09 -0800

7th grade me just cracked open another Mt. Dew and threw a microwave burrito in...

By: joelhunt

joelhunt — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:42:38 -0800

Heh, I also spent a fair amount of time eyeing the intro screen quizzically while tapping random buttons. A computer genius is not me.

By: Chunder

Chunder — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:47:27 -0800

Wow - awesome! Multiplayer online MULE - never thought I'd see the day :) Was a nice nostalgic moment watching the intro, although I was puzzled that the music seemed faster than I remember... then I realised that I was used to running it on a PAL machine, whereas it was developed based on NTSC timings. I forgot that life used to be complicated like that.

By: crapmatic

crapmatic — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:51:14 -0800

I'm a big M.U.L.E. fan but I think this FPP should be flagged as the flash game doesn't even work.

By: roaring beast

roaring beast — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:52:23 -0800

Yeah, it'd be great if someone could make a flash version of this, but alas you have to download to play. (It is just a small, harmless download, though, and totally worth it.)

By: fusinski

fusinski — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:56:42 -0800

I'm a big M.U.L.E. fan but I think this FPP should be flagged as the flash game doesn't even work. Neo, you must realize the truth... there IS no flash game.

By: schyler523

schyler523 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:04:37 -0800

Also, no Mac version...flash would be awesome.

By: davejay

davejay — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:05:40 -0800

Fantastic. I loved this game when I was a kid, and I fully intend to leverage this as a means of introducing my kids to economics.

By: Palquito

Palquito — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:07:24 -0800

Ahh, M.U.L.E. God we loved this game. I remember being introduced to it back in the Summer of 1984, at our 8th grade graduation party/sleepover. We played it all night. My friend Bill and I got increasingly tired and nasty (as Jr Highers do), and eventually we decided that since we were the only two that had played all night without sleeping, we were superior and therefore should team up against the other players. Collusion, etc. As I mentioned in a thread a few weeks ago, one of the key aspects of this game was that it taught you that it was no good to simply win; you had to be clever enough to make the colony succeed spectacularly and still end up on top. A lesson that the political elite of the U.S. seem to have not learned. I guess they were too busy playing Seven Cities of Gold.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:10:59 -0800

M.U.L.E. is perhaps the best multiplayer video game ever made, a computer-native equivalent to German-style board gaming. davejay: Remember, in M.U.L.E., if the players focus so much on screwing each other over that the colony isn't successful, it will explicitly declare that no one wins. If only Wall Street had learned economics from M.U.L.E.... I've not tried this version yet, but it is possible to play the original Atari 800 game on a Dreamcast emulator, which is one of the best hardware solutions for it since it has four controller ports. This should also be possible on the Wii once someone gets around to releasing an Atari 800 emulator for it.

By: FatherDagon

FatherDagon — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:37:29 -0800

Holy wow, it's a retro-gaming-stravaganza lately! First I run through Wasteland, then the Mother3 patch, and now this? I remember playing this game with my parents waaaay back when... I'll have to send my dad a link. Nice!

By: dakotadusk

dakotadusk — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:42:30 -0800

Let's hunt the Wumpus!

By: SheMulp AKA Plus 1

SheMulp AKA Plus 1 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:37:08 -0800

the theme music is so damn catchy. This will be in my head for days.

By: roue

roue — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:49:51 -0800

the opensource atari800 emulator will play this just fine. Just grab the atariosb.rom and MULE.ATR files from the "windows only" version on offer and you're on your way.

By: roue

roue — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:50:12 -0800

(for the now Win32 folks like myself ...)

By: eriko

eriko — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:34:09 -0800

Best. Game. EVAR!

By: Izner Myletze

Izner Myletze — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:46:44 -0800

Does anyone have a Kaillerra server IP with M.U.L.E. players? I'm getting an error requesting the server list and can't find where to play.

By: adamdschneider

adamdschneider — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:23:43 -0800

Ah, no way! Thanks very much for this. I totally forgot this game even existed until I saw the FPP, but apparently it lurked in the back somewhere, because the theme music started playing in my head before I even clicked.

By: Joseph Gurl

Joseph Gurl — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:09:04 -0800

The only game I ever liked...my neighbor had an Atari 800, man, good times. Thanks!

By: JaredSeth

JaredSeth — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:11:39 -0800

It's posts like these that make me regret marrying a non gamer girl. I know she's going to wander out of the bedroom in a couple hours to figure out why I haven't come to bed yet on a work night, find me sitting in the dark, bleary-eyed by the light of the monitor, and yell at me. At least this time I'll be able to honestly answer no to the Civilization question.

By: greenie2600

greenie2600 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:21:39 -0800

I played and loved Dan Bunten's Seven Cities of Gold on my C64. I was always vaguely aware of M.U.L.E., but had never played it until today, when I downloaded this and gave it a try. Seems like something I would have enjoyed back in the day, but I no longer have the patience for the clumsy interfaces of old. Seems that Dan Bunten became Danielle Bunten in 1992. Huh.