Of course I played it.
I liked Empire for a short time back in the 80's. I knew one of the guys who designed it (I met him at a Stop n Go playing Satan's Hollow arcade game and he told me about some starfleet battles game they were working on).
I played Empire several times but it kept crashing on me, usually when moving a flying unit and scrolling the map. It was really annoying.
When I called the company to politely report the bug they gave me this LAME excuse that: "It is NOT a bug in our code sir. It is a well-known fact that all Amigas are poorly built and their blitter chip overheats and crashes the machine. If you want to complain then call Commodore."
No amount of reasoning with them worked. I tried to explain that there were zillionz of other games using the blitter a lot more than Empire that worked 100% reliably. But they would not listen and just got mad at me. They refused to fix the bug or even just investigate it.
So I quit playing the game.
Then I took all of the addictiveness out of the game, refined it, purified it, magnified it, catalyzed it and made it 32x more addictive. I also removed all the buggy crashiness. Then I built a time machine out of a C64 SID chip (wired in backwards), a tesla coil, an Energizer Bunny, my A500 and some duct tape. Then I went back in time and poured the addictive potion into Total Chaos OCS to make the Wargame of the Millenium.
