Apparently Hamurabi was inspired by The Sumerian Game.
I played it as a kid too, but in my case it was on my iPod. I had been looking for programming apps and found a BASIC app. Turns out, it was just classic BASIC games and not an interpreter, but it was good fun regardless!
I can recall the layout of the text, although I can't be certain about the names from so long ago. It was pretty enjoyable for such a basic game.
I imagine that it was also the parent of the trader text game where instead of being in a static city you have your ship that you increase in size, travel between cities and trade as well as buy/sell guns for defense.
One of the end-of-year projects in my high school C++ class was to implement a simplified version of this, and the project was titled "Hammurabi", so you're not alone.
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I played it as a kid too, but in my case it was on my iPod. I had been looking for programming apps and found a BASIC app. Turns out, it was just classic BASIC games and not an interpreter, but it was good fun regardless!
https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=7...
There seems to be an emulation here:
https://archive.org/details/hamurabi.qb64
This was previously discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26188324
I imagine that it was also the parent of the trader text game where instead of being in a static city you have your ship that you increase in size, travel between cities and trade as well as buy/sell guns for defense.
Its episode 57 or is on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLI5AKoyjMM