Help me identify this old, text-based TRS-80 game... *Bumps GREATLY Appreciated!!*

[RossMAN]

Wow 2:45 brings back memories:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj5cAdVo2A4

 

[joshuacronemeyer]

I played this game too! It was a 5 1/4 in floppy of shareware for PC and the game was called Empires like some others on this thread have mentioned. Delmoko seems to have a copy and his "Fair Weather, Too Much Rain. The Rats Ate 17% of your Grain Reserve." Is just what I remember. I also remember that the longer the game went on the more difficult it was to continue.

I'd like to find the rom so we could upload it to https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games so it can live forever! If anyone has it please upload the ROM for preservation.

 

[VirtualLarry]

When I was in high school, we had a Vax/VMS mainframe (about as big as 2 chest freezers) in the computer lab (1983.) It was there that I knew my destiny did NOT lie with computer programming.

Me too. (Having a VAX/VMS computer in HS.) I wrote Nintendo-style action games for it! Had a 3D maze game, (no monsters, that was version 2.0), it was like Double Dungeons for TG-16, wrote a Pac-Man and a Tetris clone, someone else in the lab did a Tron light-cycles clone (multi-terminal/player), Asteroids, Dig-Dug, I did a 1942 clone for a History class project. Was working on a really extensive multi-player "hex-grid war game", that spiraled out of control in terms of features, never got that completed. Wrote a game in the same vein as Parsec for TI 99/4a and Defender in the arcade. I don't think anyone ever finished it legitimately, it was cranked way too hard in difficulty.

Edit: And yeah, some of the other students got "Empire" on there, too. That was very popular.