Master of Orion was not the first 4X, but it was the first one for the masses. A company called Simtex created it and "beta" version called "StarLords is in the public domain. The 4X genre goes back a long, long time. In 1981 I wrote a game called Galactic Empire for the Sanyo MBC-550 (an early
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