That program was Empire, written in 1978 for the DECsystem-10 mainframe and is one of the earliest examples of a computer wargame. The author of this response was none other than Walter Bright, compiler expert and creator of the D programming language, as well the author of the very famous program that he had referred to in his Hacker News reply. This post had some interesting discussion on Hacker News, and among these comments was one from a reader who mentioned that his oldest code was from 1978, and is still available on GitHub. I recently posted an article about resurrecting old code, and went into some detail about how I brought a program for the TRS-80 I wrote in 1982 back to life. Sid Meier has cited Empire as one of his major inspirations (along with the board game Risk) for his long-running Civilization franchise, and part of the planning for the Civilization series started with making a list of features he would like to add or change in Empire in order to make it a better game.Walter Bright (Photo courtesy Walter Bright) The exact era of the game is unspecified, but the player can construct infantry, battleships, planes and submarines implying a somewhat contemporary setting. The goal is to eventually take over the world. The game is presented from a top down perspective with a world map and is turn based, players start the game in control of one city and use this city to build armies to conquer other cities. The Wargame of the Century version released in 1987 featured an updated UI and graphics, which were further improved upon in the 1993 release Empire Deluxe. Walter Bright originally started development of Empire in 1973, and the game saw its first release on PDP-10 computers in 1977.
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