Help me find a very old MS-DOS game...

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ArchAngel777

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I have searched countless hours trying to find a game I used to play about 20 years ago. Here is what I know of the game:

* You were a king of a Kingdom
* It was text based
* There were ten turns per game
* You had Knights, Servants, Peasants and Nomads
* Every round you were told how many enemies were approaching and what forces you were going to commit to the battle.
* The enemies forces that were captured were the lowest tier of troop (Nomads)
* If your Peasents performed well, they were upgraded to Servants, and if the Servants did well, they were upgraded to Knights.
* At the end of each turn, you could buy or sell square feet of your Castle/Kingdom and each turn the rate exchange was different and variable.

I have never been able to find this game again. Although it was extremely simplistic, I found it to be one of the most fun games I have ever played. If anyone remembers this game, or knows what it was called (and where I can find it!) I would be... Most... Grateful.
 
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wanderer27

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Almost sounds a little like BRE, or Barren Realms, but that was a BBS game.

It almost sounds a bit familiar . . . .
 
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acheron

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I'm almost certain that I played that too. I want to say it was part of a collection of several text-based games. Not Friendlyware, but something similar. I will look around and see if I can figure it out.
 
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acheron

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(Oh, and now I see you posted that in a followup, that it was part of a collection. Well we're probably thinking of the same thing then.)
 
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wow talk about flashback,

I remember the space trek game as well and the game you are talking about but cant think of the name. Now this is going to bother me all night!
 
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ArchAngel777

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I always remember the game being called 'Kingdom'. But I left that part out because every single google search for MS-DOS Kingdom would never find anything that resembles the game. I tried so many variables on search words like "DOS, Kingdom, Nomads, Knights, Text" and just nothing shows up!!! So I am perhaps thinking that my memory is failing me and that the game was not called Kingdom. But even taking Kingdom out of my searches only brings me to this post! How ironic.

But yes, it came in a multi-pack. About every few years I have searched for this game (starting 5-7 years ago) and every time I ended up with a dead-end. That is why I posted here on AT, since I have some fellow gamers. :D

BTW - Appreciate you guys assisting with this. It also is good to know that I am not the only person who seems to remember this game.
 
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ArchAngel777

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Incidently, I did a search for "Space Trek DOS" and have found nothing on google for it. I am 100% sure that there was a game called Space Trek and that it was a 'clone, copy, etc..." of the "Star Trek" text based game. So, I am starting to think that these games that were sold back in these old DOS days were sort of... Home-Brew type stuff? Where they basically just ripped off ideas from other games and changed a few of the elements/names.

That civil war game that Shorty posted is very similar. I looked it up and found that it is a similar concept to the game that I played. They just changed a few of the names and variables to it.

This is a bummer! I'd love to revisit some of these older games.
 
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acheron

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I wasn't remembering the "Space Trek" game at first, but I think I do now.

I think my parents still have a couple boxes of 5.25" disks from the old days. If they do, I bet it is in there. Next time I go to my parents' maybe I will look through the disks and see what I can find.
 
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ArchAngel777

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acheron said:
I wasn't remembering the "Space Trek" game at first, but I think I do now.

I think my parents still have a couple boxes of 5.25" disks from the old days. If they do, I bet it is in there. Next time I go to my parents' maybe I will look through the disks and see what I can find.
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That would be cool! :D
 
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Ross Ridge

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ArchAngel777 said:
So, I am starting to think that these games that were sold back in these old DOS days were sort of... Home-Brew type stuff? Where they basically just ripped off ideas from other games and changed a few of the elements/names.
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Yah, a lot of BASIC games from the era trace their origins to one of David Ahl's BASIC games books and even those are derived from something else. The game you're talking about sounds like it's derived from Hamurabi. the classic resource management game.

In any case, I think I found the game you're looking for on a old abandonware site. I'm hesitent to link to it, as not everthing there looks legal, but I doubt the game you're looking was a commerically released game to begin with: http://amigan.1emu.net/aw/. It's in the GWBASIC pack in the IBM PC games section. You'll need to use GW-BASIC or QBasic to run it.
 
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ArchAngel777

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Ross Ridge said:
Yah, a lot of BASIC games from the era trace their origins to one of David Ahl's BASIC games books and even those are derived from something else. The game you're talking about sounds like it's derived from Hamurabi. the classic resource management game.

In any case, I think I found the game you're looking for on a old abandonware site. I'm hesitent to link to it, as not everthing there looks legal, but I doubt the game you're looking was a commerically released game to begin with: http://amigan.1emu.net/aw/. It's in the GWBASIC pack in the IBM PC games section. You'll need to use GW-BASIC or QBasic to run it.
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Ah ha! :D That worked and yes it is the game!


Edit ** Thanks! :D
 
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