"Curt @ Atari Museum" <curt at atarimuseum.com> writes:
I played Conquest quite a bit on the Vax in college,
that played
through the VT100 terminals with refreshing the graphics on the screen
for animation (ships turning, shots fired, etc...) We'd get like 10
or more people on after hours in the computer labs in Manhattan and
Old Westbury and we'd essentially bring the Vax to its knee's ;-)
Conquest was one of several children of PLATO Empire.
You can still play; ascii or OpenGL.
http://radscan.com/conquest.html
(Actually, there are two completely different Empire descendents
named Conquest; one is the widely-known VMS game, the other a PLATO
game made by Silas Warner (Castle Wolfenstein) from the first version of
Empire, which was a sort of economics game; Empire didn't become an
action-oriented game until version II).
Xtrek/Netrek comes from Empire as well.
And Robert Woodhead of "Wizardry" fame did a version of Empire for the
Apple II called "Galactic Attack".