Trivia / Hamurabi

• Follow the Leader:
  • This game inspired several other management games, such as:
    • Dukedom (1976), a more expanded version, set in the Middle Ages and including warfare against other dukes and the High King, complete with Hired Guns and Instant Militia.
    • Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio (1978), playable here, set in medieval Italy and with several social classes and monuments.
    • Dynasty (1978), where the players was the governor of Hunan Province in China during the Yuan Dynasty and who was declared emperor if he won and managed to beat the floods, earthquakes, graft and famines.
    • King (1978), where you play the Premier of the Communist island of Setats Detinu and have to manage farming, tourism, mining and industry.
  • Later, the gameplay influenced games such as Civilization and Populous.
  • In the Copper Age of 7 Grand Steps, Step 1: What Ancients Begat, the rulership minigame is a modified version with the same bushels-of-grain-as-currency mechanic.
  • Hamurabi was itself inspiring from the 1966 The Sumerian Game, an edutainment video game which featured several additional features such as crafts and technological progression.