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The Sumerian Game: The ancestor of modern city builders

Froholt, Joachim. 2025. “The Sumerian Game: The ancestor of modern city builders.” Spillhistorie.no.

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Joachim Froholt, with historian Andrea Contato, who reconstructed the game in 2024.
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An introduction by Froholt, then an interview with Contato. Claims say which of the two is speaking.

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Joachim Froholt writes that Hamurabi "is considered a foundational pillar in the strategy genre and an ancestor of today's city-building and empire-management games".Web
Historian Andrea Contato says others used Hamurabi as inspiration for derivative games, and that the city and empire management genre that followed led "to titles like SimCity and eventually Civilization, much later".Web
Joachim Froholt calls The Sumerian Game "the oldest strategy computer game we have a decent amount of information about".Web