Atari or C64?

[Mt-Wampus]

Dont have a Atari or copy of mule. Play on a emulator

[benoit]

I learned on commodore 64 but also played on atari and the later on nintendo.

[Oort]

Atari 800XL. My brother and I worked all summer to raise $200 bucks to buy a friends Atari system with all his games. The best one he had was MULE (along with Bruce Lee and Arcon). We would play until the wee morning hours, leave the computer running, and then start playing soon as we got up the next morning.

[owenblade]

C64 is the best - only played Atari version once and it's just not as good - tiny details make the difference, the 3 of note for me are -
* on C64 you have to deploy the MULE precisely on the house - makes your turn that much more edgy!
* the AI on the Atrai version is too rigid (like sticking to $25 for Energy sale) on C64 it is more random and less easy to guess
*on C64 you have to remeber what energy food you've got/need - makes it much more of a challenge.

Any plans for a v2 C64 version - I would pay £30 for that!!!

Any way of getting into the game code to tweak the game (turn times, crystite prices)?

Happy gaming!

[AlexFili]

I played the nintendo version for more than five years

[smithers]

YEP

[Chuckie Chuck]

Always a smart ass in every group.

[chris_PL]

All depend on what computer did u have in childhood. I got Atari 65XE and was really better for me than C64.

[heartbone]

Learned it on the best 8 bit computer system ever made, the Atari 800 with 4 JOYsticks.

I still have the game and all original packaging including the shrink wrap with the stickers and the sales receipt.

I heard that there were less than 40,000 copies sold by EA, so perhaps one day it may be a collectors item?

Did you know that the Atari joyports were I/O?

I wrote a simple battleship program that connected two Ataris and communicated over a homemade cable made from two broken joysticks.

If only the Amiga & ST hadn't come out when they did and squashed 8-bit development, you probably would have heard of this amazing capability before now.

[Naticus]

Atari 800 all the way. 

My retirement was LUXURIOU!!!

[iso9001]

The PC version had 24 round tournament. Nice...! 

[Chuckie Chuck]

Interesting, wonder what that was like, at that point you got 12 rounds full development and it's just seein who can be the most effective with what they got.

[Intergalactic Mole]

  The atari MULE was fun but the Crystite was always in the same spots! Top left and bottom left! In the same EXACT spots many times!

Not sure what version you were playing, but the crystite is definitely random on the Atari 800 version.

http://bringerp.free.fr/RE/Mule/mule_document.html

[Chuckie Chuck]

I'm thinkin he had a hacked copy with a cheat coded into it.

[barbie_girl]

NES was the only option for me. I've always been behind the times, technologically speaking, so by the time my brother's brother-in-law gave another brother and myself his old C64 you couldn't get software for it. The only Atari system I've played is the 2600, which the game was never ported to and again games were unavailable for it (though it was still recent enough that flea markets and yard sales sometimes had them).

I found it in a flea market in 1998. I almost passed it up because the label had me believing it was a shooter or a sci-fi themed platformer but we were coming up on a 3 day weekend and I was bored with my library so I bought it. Once I figured it out (no manual) it was the only NES game I played from then until I got my N64 in 2000.

I never saw the point of single player tournament and when I could get my friends to play they wanted to play standard since they thought tournament might be longer and they didn't really like the game so I never even heard of crystite until a few days ago. I use to be good at the game but the whole crystite mining thing consistently keeps me in 3rd or 4th place now.