M.U.L.E.™

For 1 to 4 players

IRATA. A New World rich with opportunity. For wealth. And power.
And you can become the richest, most powerful inhabitant of the newly discovered planet by owning the most land, mining the most precious metal, and supplying the most food and energy to all the peasants—otherwise known as your opponents.
To win you need MULEs (Multiple Use Labor Elements), kind of mechanical donkeys which do your dirty work: growing food, mining, and producing energy. MULEs are critical, so you want to get as many as possible as cheaply as possible.
And by the way, treachery is acceptable. So use it when needed.
Then sit back and enjoy your wealth and power, OH MIGHTY RULER.

Four-player option requires Nintendo's NES Satellite™ transmitter or Four Score™
Copyright © 1990, 1983 Ozark Softscape.

Source:

Back of Box - NES (CA-US)

M.U.L.E.™

by Dan Bunten, Bill Bunten,
Jim Rushing and Alan Watson

A game in which up to four players attempt to settle a distant planet with the so-called help of a mule-like machine they all learn to hate.

YOU HATE HIM. YOU NEED HIM.

It means something, M.U.L.E. Multiple Use Labour Element.

Everyone expected him to be perfect for planet pioneering. Mining, farming, and general hauling capabilities — he could do it all.

It was the unexpected stuff, however, that made a M.U.L.E. a M.U.L.E.

He was born — if you can call it that — in an underground lab in the Pacific Northwest. A major defence contractor had gone out of its way to get the job and they were stoked.

Stoked, that is, until the detailing robots went out on strike. Costs ran over. Senators screamed. And when the dust cleared, the job was finished by a restaurant supply firm, a maker of pre-school furniture, and the manufacturers of a popular electric toaster.

It shows.

No one quite knows how it is that a M.U.L.E. is able to record intergalactic phone messages. Or why he can be used to cook simple dinners. Or how he pulls in any ballgame broadcast, anywhere in the universe.

Above all, no one ever dreamed that he would go beserk and run away if treated carelessly.

No one expected any of that, to be sure.

But you've got a planet to settle. And for now, he's all you've got.

Good luck, you'll need it.

Source:

Back of Box - C64 (UK)