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Fun stuff, by the time I had access to Plato (1978) 'games' were just one of the category of thing you could do with the terminal (so 'sanctioned' activities).
by ChuckMcM 5y ago
Fun stuff, by the time I had access to Plato (1978) 'games' were just one of the category of thing you could do with the terminal (so 'sanctioned' activities). A roommate of mine got hooked on 'Dry Gulch' which was a fairly simple take your mule into the mine outside of town and blast away walls for ore, bring it in and refine it for gold. You could use gold to buy more mules, dynamite and mining tools. A very simple mechanic but quite addicting.
- kbenson 5y agoDrygulch is mentioned at the end of the article, along with notes that he can't seem to find any screenshots of it. As Drygulch was played well into the mid-1980s, I can't help but think that some photographs, if not screen shots, must still exist somewhere, but there don't seem to be any online. I don't know why Drygulch wasn't preserved by efforts like Cyber1, but I suspect it's because the game was owned by CDC and not the University of Illinois. In case you run across something you're fairly certain is an image of this game, I'm sure he would appreciate the authentication. :)