The Rediscovered Sumerian Game: A Lost Chapter in Gaming History

This article recounts the fascinating story of The Sumerian Game, a pioneering strategy game from 1964. Played on mainframe computers via printer terminals, the game tasked players with managing grain resources as a Sumerian king. Despite its limited reach at the time, it's considered a progenitor of modern strategy games, particularly city-building and empire management titles. Decades later, game historian Andrea Contato painstakingly reconstructed this lost classic using surviving printouts and documents, releasing a free version on Steam, bringing a forgotten piece of gaming history back to life.