 In addition to the multiple versions of Hamurabi , several simulation games have been created as expansions of the core game . These include Kingdom ( 1974 ) by Lee Schneider and Todd <unk> , which was then expanded to Dukedom ( 1976 ) . Other derivations include King ( 1978 ) by James A. Storer , and Santa <unk> en <unk> ( 1978 ) by George Blank ; Santa <unk> added the concept of city building management to the basic structure of Hamurabi , making it an antecedent to the city @-@ building genre as well as an early strategy game . Hamurabi held the status as the forerunner of economic simulation games even after the creation of its more complicated descendants ; as late as 1983 's <unk> , critics described games with similar systems in terms of being similar to Hamurabi . 
