When did you first get sucked in to this game?

[That Dank]

I was a late bloomer with this one.  A friend showed me this game in 1990 on a 64.  Knowing about this now made my night!

[Tuahikaa]

Just found out about this game. Can't wait to get home and try it!

Originally played on the c64. More recently, I have it on my N-Gage via a c64 emulator. And I also tried my hand at making a turn based version for the net about 5 years back. This and Little Computer People has always had a place in my heart.

[Misterproof]

I play A LOT when I was a young lad in the 80's :-)
Can't wait to harvest crystite again.

Good job in making this happen guys.

[CameronGoble]

M.U.L.E. was *the* game of choice at my buddy Mark's house.  He had a giant TV for the standards of the day, so four of us would gather around and ruthlessly contend for the best scores.  (Sometimes we even cooperated.  But not usually.)

This game more than any other showed me that video games could be serious business.  I came to learn that Dan Bunten's games were always a good bet.  Modem Wars opened up the world of multiplayer, Global Conquest was a kick, and Command HQ had a stoic charm of its own.

I still think about M.U.L.E. to this day.  A few weeks ago I included a graphic of Irata in an article I wrote about video games and graphic detail -- video games from this era put the art mostly inside the player's head, but it was usually evocative in its own right.

Thank you for bringing M.U.L.E. into the 21st century with panache!  I really look forward to playing this game -- and reviewing it for my site, Long Tail Gamer!

[Trafalgard]

I too first found M.U.L.E. on the C64 in the 80s, as a kid, and had a lot of fun playing it with my family back then. More recently, within the last year or so, before I heard of PlanetMule, I managed to convince one of the people I knew online to play the NES version through an emulator over the internet. We spent the majority of our time making a fortune catching the Wampus repeatedly, as it was apparently far, far too easy to catch him on the NES.

[Sascha]

I am not sure of the exact year, but it must have been around 1984 when I got a disc for my Atari XL with that great game.

Still play it on my real Atari 8 Bit hardware.

[CNUanMan]

I was born in 1990, and playing this on the NES with my sister is my first memory about video games. Playing this really makes me feel like a little kid again.

[buzz_clik]

1989 or 1990 at a friend's house, on a Commodore 64. I was in high school.

This is my answer exactly. Scott Lawson, old school friend and current man of the world, introduced me to it. Thanks Scott! I still pimp this game to people 20 years on. That's VFM right there.

[Curvyboom]

I played in the 80's on a Commodore 64 with the family--all four of us played, though my dad usually helped me because I was only 5 or 6. I'm so excited to find this!! I can't wait to tell my brother!

[Unit734]

Mid-80's! Pirated version for the C-64 was all I could get my hands on. Pirating back in those days by "sneaker-net", aka copying floppy discs at school and seeing what random stuff we'd get. Best part was that the hacker cracking most of the games was the son of the local District Attorney. Never knew there was an Atari version. Would have bought that in a second.

Played it mid-2000's via C64 roms. Incredibly stoked to find this new version. Absolutely love the updated music. Graphics are great fun, too. Very well done job, guys.

[Bobby]

My father had bought the game m.u.l.e. and was hooked!

[Stormdancer]

The month it came out.... but I don't really remember when that was.  :>

[thelastnomad]

Found the game on Gamespy the other day, glad it did

I am a high school teacher in New Zealand, and introduced it to a few colleagues, and am hoping they will be able to use in the Business Studies area, for some fun representation of supply/demand

[Jaradakar]

My Dad owned an Atari 800 with 4 joysticks.  I remember the day he brought home M.U.L.E. (I was 8 years old then -- 34 years old now) it quickly became the favorite game for the 5 of us (Dad, 3 Brothers & Sister).  Not to mention all of our mutual friends!  

I think growing up we played this game more than any other game and I still have my Dad's working Atari 800 (and MULE).

-Jara

PS: To this day M.U.L.E. holds the title of "My favorite game of all time".  I suspect it helps that I'm a big fan of German style board games, which M.U.L.E. reminds me of.

[beatthelastboss]

I got sucked into it about 3 days ago, had never even heard of it before then