Video game · 1972
Empire
Released 1972 on HP 2100, HP 3000, PDP-11, PC, Linux and 3 more
- Developer
- Peter Langston
- Made in
- United States
- Genre
- Turn-based strategy (TBS)
- Themes
- Warfare, 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)
About Empire
Empire is a 4X wargame created in 1972 by Peter Langston, taking its name from a Reed College board game of the same name. It was initially created by Langston in BASIC on an HP2000 minicomputer at Evergreen State College. When the host computer was retired, the source code to the game was lost. Subsequently, two other authors each independently wrote a new version of the game, both named Empire. In the decades since, numerous other versions of Empire have been developed for a wide variety of platforms.
Summary: IGDB.
Release dates
| HP 2100 | 1972 |
|---|---|
| HP 3000 | 1972 |
| PDP-11 | 1972 |
| Amiga | later, date unknown |
| Linux | later, date unknown |
| Mac | later, date unknown |
| MS-DOS | later, date unknown |
| PC | later, date unknown |
Games like Empire
- Civilization II 1996
- Age of Wonders 4 2023