Everybody in the (german) generation C64 knows the game "Kaiser". 🕹👑 A medieval building strategy game, very famous over here. We've played it for hours and hours.

Last week I got to know, that it's actually a 1:1 clone of the game Santa Paravia & Fiumaccio. The gameplay is 99% identical to Kaiser, with some minor differences. The game first appeared in "‪Softside -your BASIC software magazine " in December 1978, roughly 6 years before Kaiser.

The game consists of yearly turns, beginning in 1400; each turn involves the allocation of grain, counted in steres, and funds, counted in florins, attempting to grow the colony in both population and size. A ruler must ensure that sufficient grain supplies are available to feed his people; by distributing excess grain, a ruler can encourage more citizens to move into his city-state. However, often famine and rats cause grain reserves to diminish.

Funds can be spent to purchase more land, military forces, or various types of structures. These structures include revenue producing mills and markets as well as prestigious palaces and cathedrals.

(from Wikipedia)

My friend Dave Hassler dug this one out and ported it to KIM-1 BASIC, it was already playable when I got my hands on it :D . I translated it into german, a silly thing, but hey, one needs a hobby. And I painted a different cover for it. One that looks more like Italy ;)

And since there is no chance you have a KIM-1 with BASIC by Hand I can already share the link to the preview version

As always -> stay childish, your webdoctor

P.S. There is this great vintage BASIC program for modern PC's that lets you just click the *.bas files and you can play it straightaway on your PC.... http://www.vintage-basic.net/download.html