<s>
Anacreon	B-Application
:	I-Application
Reconstruction	I-Application
4021	I-Application
is	O
a	O
video	O
game	O
written	O
by	O
George	O
Moromisato	O
for	O
MS-DOS	B-Application
and	O
published	O
by	O
Thinking	O
Machine	O
Associates	O
in	O
1987	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Anacreon	B-Application
is	O
a	O
turn-based	O
game	O
in	O
which	O
human	O
and	O
computer	O
players	O
explore	O
the	O
galaxy	O
,	O
conquering	O
worlds	O
and	O
putting	O
them	O
to	O
use	O
to	O
fuel	O
their	O
war	O
machines	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
it	O
resembles	O
Stellar	O
Conquest	O
and	O
Hamurabi	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
Windows	B-Application
remake	O
,	O
Anacreon	B-Application
:	I-Application
Imperial	I-Application
Conquest	I-Application
in	I-Application
the	I-Application
Far	I-Application
Future	I-Application
,	O
was	O
released	O
by	O
George	O
Moromisato	O
in	O
2004	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Beta-testing	O
for	O
Anacreon	B-Application
3	O
,	O
a	O
new	O
web-based	O
version	O
,	O
started	O
in	O
late	O
2012	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Success	O
in	O
Anacreon	B-Application
requires	O
a	O
good	O
grasp	O
of	O
micromanagement	O
strategy	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Many	O
features	O
now	O
commonplace	O
in	O
science-fiction	O
4X	O
gamesMaster	O
of	O
Orion	O
,	O
Pax	B-Application
Imperia	I-Application
,	O
Galactic	O
Civilizationscan	O
be	O
found	O
,	O
arguably	O
,	O
originally	O
in	O
Anacreon	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Released	O
in	O
1987/1988	O
,	O
the	O
game	O
was	O
later	O
with	O
version	O
1.3	O
released	O
as	O
freeware	B-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
written	O
in	O
Written	O
in	O
Turbo	B-Application
Pascal	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
source	O
code	O
was	O
released	O
for	O
the	O
MS-DOS	B-Application
version	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Jerry	O
Pournelle	O
of	O
BYTE	B-Application
stated	O
in	O
January	O
1989	O
that	O
Anacreon	B-Application
"	O
is	O
filled	O
with	O
excellent	O
ideas	O
,	O
mostly	O
well	O
implemented	O
,	O
and	O
then	O
spoiled	O
by	O
inattention	O
to	O
some	O
vital	O
detail	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
admitting	O
that	O
he	O
had	O
"	O
just	O
spent	O
the	O
last	O
2	O
days	O
(	O
and	O
nights	O
)	O
playing	O
"	O
the	O
game	O
—	O
"	O
really	O
a	O
darned	O
good	O
implementation	O
of	O
the	O
Stellar	O
Conquest	O
idea	O
"	O
—	O
Pournelle	O
cited	O
the	O
"	O
annoyingly	O
buggy	O
 [ and ] 	O
incomplete	O
"	O
user	O
interface	O
,	O
inability	O
to	O
easily	O
select	O
a	O
planet	O
,	O
need	O
to	O
micromanage	O
units	O
unlike	O
Empire	B-Application
:	I-Application
Wargame	I-Application
of	I-Application
the	I-Application
Century	I-Application
,	O
and	O
other	O
issues	O
that	O
he	O
stated	O
showed	O
a	O
lack	O
of	O
proper	O
playtesting	O
and	O
were	O
common	O
to	O
products	O
from	O
small	O
startup	O
companies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
He	O
nonetheless	O
named	O
Anacreon	B-Application
as	O
his	O
game	O
of	O
the	O
month	O
,	O
concluding	O
that	O
"	O
despite	O
its	O
problems	O
,	O
it	O
's	O
playable	O
and	O
the	O
flavor	O
is	O
good	O
,	O
much	O
like	O
Beam	O
Piper	O
's	O
old	O
Space	O
Viking	O
series	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2004	O
,	O
George	O
Moromisato	O
released	O
an	O
update	O
to	O
the	O
game	O
making	O
it	O
run	O
natively	O
in	O
a	O
Windows	B-Application
9x	O
environment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
late	O
2012	O
George	O
Moromisato	O
announced	O
that	O
he	O
would	O
be	O
revamping	O
his	O
oldest	O
game	O
and	O
releasing	O
a	O
beta-test	O
version	O
of	O
Anacreon	B-Application
3	O
written	O
for	O
web	O
browsers	O
making	O
it	O
accessible	O
from	O
mobile	O
devices	O
and	O
tablets	O
.	O
</s>
