[OT] Empire

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

Heh, Walter wrote a game that "inspired a great deal of the 
strategic gaming genre, most notably including Civilization:"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Empire

Other than a couple mentions in this newsgroup, I'd never heard 
of this game, now available in D:

http://www.classicempire.com/

Pretty cool reading the article about how the game got around 
back then, seems like an early version of open source and maybe 
the first software to ever go viral, albeit in the much smaller 
computer-using community back in the '70s and '80s.

Any big errors or gaps in the historical account on Wikipedia, 
Walter?  I see that its descendant is now available on iOS and 
Android too. :)