It features EGA graphics and PC Speaker audio, but it also has mouse support (which is not that common for games of that era).īecause of the mouse-based UI, this version of the game is a bit more accessible than the original keyboard-controlled versions. This is the version I played a lot when I was young. HOWEVER! The version I would propose we cover in DOS Game Club is the 1987 commercial release by Interstel. Walter maintains a website about Empire and offers the source code of various versions of “Classic Empire”: Later games, such as Sid Meier’s Civilization (1991), show a strong resemblance to some of Empire’s core gameplay elements. There are ports for several other contemporary systems.Įmpire was a huge inspiration for the turn-based strategy genre.
Empire is a classic turn-based strategy game, originally developed by Walter Bright and released in 1977 for the then-popular PDP-10 Mainframe computer.
