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Silent Service – “Sonar reports distant explosions”

Back in the earlier days of the British microcomputer boom, when we were still figuring out what computer games could be, Psion’s Flight Simulation was a huge hit…

Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri

Firaxis/EA, PC, #1 in UK PC chart published in Computer & Video Games Issue 209 dated April 1999

#52: Sid Meier’s Civilization (Microprose, DOS, 1991) We’re coming off a string of three games in a row that are, by any measure, absolute giants, to one that aims…

#52: Sid Meier’s Civilization (Microprose, DOS, 1991)

#52: Sid Meier’s Civilization (Microprose, DOS, 1991)

#52: Sid Meier’s Civilization (Microprose, DOS, 1991)

#52: Sid Meier’s Civilization (Microprose, DOS, 1991)

#52: Sid Meier’s Civilization (Microprose, DOS, 1991) (because obviously no society painted or carved without using the alphabet, or continues to do fine with logographic language to this day…)

#52: Sid Meier’s Civilization (Microprose, DOS, 1991)

#52: Sid Meier’s Civilization (Microprose, DOS, 1991) The ground level nitty-gritty stuff of keeping a country running is tacitly delegated to some pompous duke or other, who in…