[OT] 4X games?

[Ed Kolis]

http://neurohack.com/anacreon/
Anacreon - an ancient 4X game (originally in ASCII!) which had artificial world construction, "spice worlds", and lots of other cool stuff, probably long before the genre was even called 4X

edit: oh, and let's not forget Star Lords, a prototype for Master of Orion! This game was actually released as freeware a while back...
http://moo3.quicksilver.com/game/starlords.html

[Hugh Manatee]

STARS!

[David E. Gervais]

The reason the genre is called 4X is quite simply because when you pronounce the words Expand, Explore, Exploit and Exterminate the 'E' is silent and therefor was coined 4X.

End of the mystery,.. next!

Cheers!

[dmm]

David E. Gervais said:
...the 'E' is silent...

ROTFL! That's quite an xtraordinary accent you must have. How xactly does anyone understand you? It must be xciting!