Year: 1983 Platform: PC, NES, Atari 800 Tragically underappreciated even today, M.U.L.E. was met with a muted critical response and poor sales after its release in 1983. However, in recent years, the game has been increasingly recognised as one of the most groundbreaking video games of the '80s, years ahead of its time. M.U.L.E. is a strategy game that essentially invented the time-honoured formula that Dune II perfected many years later. Requiring players to harvest resources, form economic strategies, and even implementing a clever single-screen multiplayer mode, M.U.L.E. is a game that deserved so much more.
