When did you first get sucked in to this game?

[dat180]

I was first introduced to the game in 1988 when my Father brought home a C64 with several games. Being a wee fella at that time I didn't grasp the concept to well. Fast forward a few years when the Sega Master took pride of my living room, bored of Alex the Kidd, Sonic the Hedgehog and the like it was time for the C64 to return from the closet. After taking in a few classics, Commando, spy hunter and kung fu I came across the old copy of Mule. After sitting down and studying it complexities I became hooked. It has been several years since I last played MULE and I can't wait to have another round of obsession.

[Tei]

about 86 / 87,  maybe.

It was my favorite game of the C64, with Spindizzy, Blue Max, Fort Apocalypse and Wizars of Wor.

[tswider]

I had the Atari 800 as well, and at that time in high school, we were also playing Diplomacy and Dune nearly every weekend. So most of our MULE games were cutthroat, with the colony "barely surviving" ... how else can you sell your opponents a few units of energy at over $200/ea?  Play often saw use of the "collusion" feature.

Like economic games in general. Used to play a lot of 1830 and these days its the occasional game of Power Grid. However, most my gaming now is 2-player wargaming. Maybe with MULE online that will change a bit?

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.

[bigfootsf]

On a Commodore 64, at home. My brother, father, and I all played together against each other. It was the only game we've ever played together, aside from a little Monopoly now and then. One of the greatest games I've ever played, and I'm really happy to see it back. Just sent the news to my brother and father! Maybe I can get my wife into it...

[Mudslide]

1983 on an old Atari 800. I've been looking for a decent remake of the game to run on my PC ever since. I even used an Atari emulator for a while to keep playing the game.

[bobzchemist]

I started playing in 1983. I played in in college with my roommates EVERY day for 3 years.

I'm 90% certain I was in the same dorm as Scott. I remember being invited to play a few times, but never as much as I wanted. I almost bought an Atari just to play this game.

[Lomgren]

I grew up with the C-64 version.  I know I watched Dad play it a couple of times when I was VERY young, as I have a very dim remembrance of causing somebody (I think him) to lose a mule by pressing a button on a joystick at the wrong time and him being angry about it, heh.  Unless that was an odd dream or something.  But yes, probably late mid-to-late 80s here.

[mulested]

I was "mulested" in the late 80s with my Atari 800XL 

[MrBrown]

....I never actually played it. But I HEARD About it...wanted to play it back in the day.  I didn't have a PC

Well I've never acutally played it too - although I had a C=64 (shame on me!  )

But I guess it's never to late to start playing M.U.L.E.

[akvadrako]

I've never played before, but it sounds interesting.

[rommager]

Time for one of my long and winded stories... 

We got a C64 in the mid-eighties, but I never heard of the game until my 8th grade math teacher (in 1989 or 90) told me it was such a fun game.  I wanted to play it ever since.  I first heard the actual tune in the 90's using SidPlay for DOS, and found it in a collection of SID files I downloaded from a BBS with a 2400 baud modem.    I thought it was the "Chilly Willy" tune at first (it sounds alsmost exactly the same at first).

I actually had a chance to play the game when C64 emulation became popular, but didn't get the concept right away.  A FAQ/online guide, and an NES copy later, I learned to play the game quite well.  (Although the NES version was not the same).  Still the NES version had its interesting quirks, like catching the wampus 3-4 times per turn, and chasing a buyer down the screen to make them buy more than they wanted.  It was enough to make me learn all the ins and outs.

I have been watching World of M.U.L.E. for the past few years, playing the occasional incomplete clone.  I was happy with progress on OpenMULE for a short while, but it eventually died and went stale.  Still, I played the HELL out of the OpenMULE prototype.  It only made me more hungry for a full version.  I waited with baited breath, as I saw Dan's daughter's announcement about working on a new Internet version.

Then came last week - A friend sent me a SlashDot article on Planet M.U.L.E. and here I am.  I have played a few games, and am in the frenzy to play more, along with teach friends how to play.

[Bluewulk]

Back in '85 on our C64s. Had to learn everything the hard way, ranging from the need of growing food & energy to the pleasure of a good smithore gambit since we didn't have no manual for some reason ... we even discovered the Wampus as an important economic factor by chance then. 

[oldrocker99]

I got it when I was 36 as one of the first four games from EA for the C=64 and fell in love with it immediately. When I graduated to an Amiga, I pined for it, and then when I (finally) went to Windows I got Space H.O.R.S.E, but it wasn't the same.

THIS version, however, is the great old game resurrected, and I can go Smithore mining again at 61!

[Intergalactic Mole]

Aw, Space Horse deserves some credit. It is a great rendition of MULE.  The only problem is that he didnt finish fixing the netcode.

[Paloma]

I first played in 1986 or '87 played it on my Attari 800. (I still have 2 800s) I played it sooooo much I fell asleep while playing with 1 of my friends!! It took him awhile to realize that I was asleep!!!! Those were the "GOOD OLD DAZE"!!