Players may exploit or create shortages by refusing to sell to other players or to the "store," which raises the price of the resource on the following turns. Players must balance supply and demand of these elements, buying what they need and selling what they don't. can be configured to harvest Energy, Food, Smithore (from which M.U.L.E.s are constructed), and Crystite (a valuable mineral available only at the "Tournament" level). Depending on how it is outfitted, a M.U.L.E. To win, players not only compete against each other to amass the largest amount of wealth, but must also cooperate for the survival of the colony.Ĭentral to the game is the acquisition and use of Multiple Use Labor Elements, or M.U.L.E.s, to develop and harvest resources from the player's real estate. Players choose the race of their colonist, which has advantages and disadvantages that can be paired to their respective strategies. Set on the fictional planet Irata ( Atari backwards), the game is an exercise in supply and demand economics involving competition among four players, with computer opponents automatically filling in for any missing players. The Commodore 64 version lets four players share joysticks, with two players using the keyboard during action portions. Like the subsequent models of the Atari 8-bit family, none of these systems allow four players with separate joysticks. Japanese versions also exist for the PC-8801, Sharp X1, and MSX 2 computers. The game was ported to the Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, and IBM PC (as a self-booting disk). Primarily a turn-based strategy game, it incorporates real-time elements where players compete directly as well as aspects that simulate economics. was one of the first five games published in 1983 by new company Electronic Arts, alongside Axis Assassin, Archon: The Light and the Dark, Worms?, and Hard Hat Mack. Designer Danielle Bunten Berry (credited as Dan Bunten) took advantage of the four joystick ports of the Atari 400 and 800 to allow four-player simultaneous play. is a 1983 multiplayer video game written for the Atari 8-bit family of home computers by Ozark Softscape. Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, IBM PC, MSX2, NES, PC-8801 MKII, Sharp X1
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