 | Happy Birthday, M.U.L.E.May 23rd, 2008 |
Soren Johnson reminds us that M.U.L.E. Turns 25 today.
My favorite game of all time, still to this day. I have at Atari 8-bit computer that plays it off the original disk. I have it on an emulator so i can play 4 player on my Dreamcast on a widescreen TV. I have it on my phone.
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Ahh, what sweet memories! The Atari 800 drive beeps before loading the game, and then the wonderful white-noise beats as At-At like M.U.L.E. happily made its way across the monitor to the music and all the player characters following suite. Happy Birthday, M.U.L.E.! And many, many more years of fun!
I once hacked up a cheesy little MULE clone that used real stock market figures. That game is a LOT harder when it’s a real market, I wasn’t willing to risk real money. heh.
I’ll bite. How’d you manage to get it to run on the Dreamcast? That strikes me as a pretty good system for four-player Wumpus goodness.
Also, someone should port M.U.L.E. for WiiWare or something. That’d certainly get some Wii Points out of me. Heh.
How’d you manage to get it to run on the Dreamcast?
First, the Dreamcast Atari 800 emulator.
Second, the binary file.
Third, there’s instructions on the net to make a bootable disc that autolaunches MULE. 
How else?
@Hermes, Wasn’t M.U.L.E. on the NES at one point? That could potentially make it a candidate for the Virtual Console, if Nintendo has the proper rights…
Thanks for the birthday reminder. I played M.U.L.E. to death on my C64. What a great multiplayer game!
@Eolirin: Here in Europe we’ve got C64 games on the VC, so M.U.L.E. could very well arrive on the Wii someday. (Not sure if and when the US will get C64 games – that’s not available yet, right?)
No C64 games for us certainly, at least at this point. -_- But according to Wikipedia there was in fact an NES release as well, so it’s still a possibility even then.
I spent many an hour with a buddy in high school battling it out on M.U.L.E. and the original Archon on the Atari 800.
Oh, the glory of the 810 disk drive with the Happy Enhancement!
There’s a nice retrospective of Dani’s career at http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/03/18/bunten/index.html
I’ll always miss her. She was not only a great game designer, but also a great person.
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