Sources
In rough order of impact [Text in brackets] is my added changes/context
- MULE 40th Anniversary Special Report [the jumping off point for so much of my research and a primary source in-of-itself], Christian A. Schiller, 2023-2024, accessed Mar 2025, : https://www.carpeludum.com/m-u-l-e-40th-anniversary-special/
- Dani Bunten Berry’s Personal Website anticlockwise.com (archive captured 2011), accessed Feb-Jul 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20110725030551/http://www.anticlockwise.com/dani/personal/biz/index.html
- Interview with Dani Berry mirrored on dadgum for Halcyon Days, accessed Jan 2025, https://dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/BERRY.HTM
- Clean MULE cover scans https://pixelatedarcade.com/games/mule/coverart
- Dani Bunten [Berry] Changed Video Games Forever, David Koon, Arkansas Times, Feb 2012, https://arktimes.com/news/cover-stories/2012/02/08/dani-bunten-changed-video-games-forever [Physical Edition Scan] https://issuu.com/arkansastimesvisitorsguide/docs/ar_times_2-8-12
- Atari 800, Steven Stengel, Steve’s Old Computer Museum [updated 06/2024], Accessed Feb 2025, https://oldcomputers.net/atari800.html
- M.U.L.E., Leo Laporte, Hi-Res Magazine May/Jun 1984 (archived via atarimagazines.com), accessed Mar 2025, https://www.atarimagazines.com/hi-res/v1n4/reviews.php
- Scan of: MULE Atari manual, archived by archive.org, archive.org, https://archive.org/details/Mule_atari8/mode/2up
- Seeing Farther: The Advert that Changed the Games Industry, Kieth Stuart, Eurogamer Sept 16, 2018, Accessed Feb 2025, https://www.eurogamer.net/seeing-farther-the-advert-that-changed-the-games-industry
- Walkthrough: MULE (wiki entry), StrategyWiki, Accessed May 2025, https://strategywiki.org/wiki/M.U.L.E.
- RadioShack Fall Sale Oct 1982, radioshackcatlogs.com, Accessed Feb 2025, https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1982_356.html
- What 80’s Arcades Really Looked Like, OK so… (yt account) Jan 23, 2025, Accessed Mar 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFbow7uAqo0
- Finding Aid to the Dan Bunten (Dani Bunten Berry) Papers [Strong Museum material intake documentation], Tara Winner, James Leach (et al), https://www.museumofplay.org/app/uploads/2021/09/Finding-Aid-to-the-Dan-Bunten-Dani-Bunten-Berry-papers_091018.pdf
- MULE Electronic Arts Video Game M.U.L.E. Commodore 64 1983 UNTESTED [Ebay listing for MULE], the-american-collector Ebay.com, https://www.ebay.com/itm/235760345204
- MULE Tournament Database, ExtremeMULEing [updated 2006?], Accessed July 2025, http://www.smithore.com/
- For 30 Years, He was in Charge of the World’s Largest Toy Box [The only picture of ‘Wheeler Dealer’s’ controller on the internet], Marnie Eisenstadt, Syracuse.com Sept 22, 2016, Accessed Jan 2025, https://www.syracuse.com/empire/2016/09/he_built_the_worlds_biggest_toy_box_now_the_strong_museum_ceo_is_retiring.html
- Atari Graphics and Arcade Game Design,1984, Jeffrey Stanton with Dan Pinal, Archived on AtariArchives.org by Kay Savetz 2001, Accessed Aug 2025, https://www.atariarchives.org/agagd/index.php
Image Credits
- Picture of Roadside Billboard, Billboard PSA, https://www.flickr.com/photos/poolsafely/8569241134
- Images of Mars, NASA Perseverance rover, https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
- Images of Auctions, Met Museum Collection,
Wiki Images used (from their respective articles):
- Reel-to-Reel Tape storage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-track_tape#/media/File:IBM_System_360_tape_drives.jpg
- Billboard: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Billboard_in_Menands,_New_York.jpg
- Minicomputer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer#/media/File:SixMinicomputers_from_Digital_Equipment_Corporation(DEC)from_1957_to_production_end_in_1979-_PDP-1,_PDP-7,_PDP-8,_PDP-8-E,_PDP-11-70,_PDP-15.jpg
Other Things
- Android-Arts attempt at reimagining MULE
- The Board Game:
- ‘We See Farther’ meta ad