Hamurabi is a text-based strategy video game of land and resource management. It was first developed under the name King of Sumeria or The Sumer Game by Doug Dyment in 1968 at Digital Equipment Corporation as a computer game for fellow employee Richard Merrill's newly invented FOCAL programming language.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi_(video_game)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi_(video_game)</a><p>Ahl, David (November 1978). BASIC Computer Games (2nd ed.). Workman Publishing. pp. 78–79. ISBN 978-0-89480-052-8. (archive)<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computer_Games_Microcomputer_Edition_1978_Creative_Computing/page/n91/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computer_Games_Microcomput...</a><p>Hamurabi - (1978) - Apple II - WIN! HD<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIbiqMO0EY4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIbiqMO0EY4</a><p>Long before Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego or The Oregon Trail, there was The Sumerian Game.<p><a href="https://www.acriticalhit.com/sumerian-game-most-important-video-game-youve-never-heard/" rel="nofollow">https://www.acriticalhit.com/sumerian-game-most-important-vi...</a><p>Game Mechanics That Are Older Than You Think<p>Our mythbusting run that reveals the true pioneers behind physics, first-person shooting, and light-guns (not Half-Life 2, Doom, and Duck Hunt respectively).<p>City Simulation - Credited to: SimCity (1989) - Beaten by 24 years<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160207152548/http://www.1up.com/features/game-mechanics-older" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20160207152548/http://www.1up.co...</a>