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3 hours ago, carlsson said:

perhaps also too complex for most casual gamers, something we can see still today.

When I got a copy, it was a hit amongst many of my friends, and played many multiplayer games..  and they weren't all braniacs.    So I don't think the game is too complex,  i think it's more that people didn't know about it, and it's a hard game to describe to tell people why they should play.

[carlsson]

So it was a launch of 5 games at once (with more titles added later in 1983):

Archon, M.U.L.E., Axis Assassin, Hard Hat Mack and Worms?. I don't know if they all were priced equally or which one eventually sold the most - probably Archon. I'd guess HHM was in third place, AA in fourth and the strange worms game in last place.

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53 minutes ago, carlsson said:

So it was a launch of 5 games at once (with more titles added later in 1983):

Archon, M.U.L.E., Axis Assassin, Hard Hat Mack and Worms?. I don't know if they all were priced equally or which one eventually sold the most - probably Archon. I'd guess HHM was in third place, AA in fourth and the strange worms game in last place.

I don't think Axis Assassin or Worms ever had much buzz.  HHM was an arcade platformer, a genre popular at the time, so it may have sold better than we think.

[carlsson]

On 4/27/2023 at 10:52 PM, carlsson said:

Now it is less than 5 weeks until M.U.L.E. turns 40 years old, specifically May 23rd.

And to celebrate, here is tonight's game:

 

Carlsson (Blue Humanoid, 1st place) - 25518 pts
Colony Total - 74963 pts

 

Rd Land Auction       Event              Smit Crys Food Ener  Order
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 1 712RC              Crazy Mule GC (1)    57   --   15   10  VC GC RC BH
 2 652NS              Pest Attack GC (1)   50   --   24   12  RC BH VC GC
 3 538VC              Meteorite Strike     50   84   20   25  RC BH VC GC
 4 478NS              Sunspot Activity     43  112   15   25  BH RC VC GC
 5 299BH 355RC        Planetquake          36  116   15   10  BH RC VC GC 
 6 295BH              Pirate Ship          57   --   15   10  BH RC VC GC
 7 --                 Planetquake          64  116   15   28  BH RC VC GC
 8 --                 Fire in Store        57   92   19   57  BH RC GC VC
 9 815RC              Acid Rain Storm      50   72   65  125  BH RC GC VC
10 -- (map full)      Pest Attack BH       50   76  235  104  BH RC GC VC (2)
11 --                 Sunspot Activity     57   64  235   70  BH RC GC VC
12 --                 Transport Ship       50   52  215   27  BH RC GC VC (3)

 

(1) Happened to Green computer on the very same river/food plot!
(2) Sold my lone spare food unit for $369 !!
(3) I considered replacing a 1-star crystite mule for a 2-star food mule. It would have yielded me about 750 points more at the end.

[watcherxp]

Played a 4 player tourney game tonight with our first attempt of collaborating to survive.
Might have broken 120K except for the earthquake in round 11 that kept our mining output down

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10 hours ago, watcherxp said:

Played a 4 player tourney game tonight with our first attempt of collaborating to survive.
Might have broken 120K except for the earthquake in round 11 that kept our mining output down
 

Always great to see someone enjoying a game of MULE - 4 players too