I Remember playing this on a Atari 400 Computer. When the Atari 400 computers where fairly new.

What's the interface? Four players at one computer? Multiple controllers, keyboards, or mice??

Networked? If yes, does each player need a copy?

I'm not paying just to find out it can't be played with my setup.

Great game, though!

It runs in DOSBox. Four players at one computer, either sharing a keyboard or with multiple joysticks. No, not that I can see. I did because GoG is awesome, as is this game. Indeed! It comes with a PDF scan of the original manual.

This was one of my favorite games back in the 1980s. I played it on the Atari 800. I don't really need the DOS version sold here because my Atari 800 is still up and running, and the Atari version is better than the DOS version. It has been a while since I've played it - maybe I should give it a try again and revisit my old tactic for beating the computer AI. I always used to ignore the minerals - I cornered the energy market instead. After the computer players bought out the limited supply in the store, I would sell energy to them at auction at an inflated price. They weren't smart enough to produce sufficient energy of their own, so this worked every time. The computer players could still win, however, if I had a run of bad luck, such as poor timing when purchasing land or having a M.U.L.E. run away.

Electronic Arts, which was the publisher of this game, was a good company back then. It's hard to imagine, given how much hate that company gets now, but it was one of the best. M.U.L.E., Seven Cities of Gold, Realm of Impossibility, The Return of Heracles, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves are all classics, and I still boot up those old floppies and play these games every now and then.

IIRC, all players share one joystick for each of their main turns, then everyone crowds around the keyboard for the auction phase.

I with the Commodore 64 and Atari 800 disk images would be included. Even the company that does Epyx games on Steam caved and added Commodore 64 and other ports to Jumpman, and California Games.....

This other version (below) seems to be actively developed. I hope it's a keeper.
It works on Linux, MacOS, and Windows, and appears to be officially licensed by Ozark Softscape.

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