Sid Meier's Colonization (Classic) Reviews

oh nostalgia

Great game

classic throwback

USE CALL IN SICK TO WORK TO PLAY THIS GAME IN 90'S... This version is as close to the original I use to play on my Commodore Amiga... Great adventure game, great mood music and still really like playing this game 30 years after it was made...!

Great classic TBS in the Sid Meier's collection. Fun trip down nostalgia lane playing this game over again.

Genuinely one of the best sid meier games, despite its racist charactures and rose-tinting of the triangle trade and colonialism... Best graphics, good midi tracks, and engaging little economic simulator. but I can't stop getting curb-stomped by every other european colonizer.

They say you can't go home again. But playing this after nearly 30 years from when I originally booted it up in DOS on our first 386 PC, hearing the MIDI soundtrack that will live rent free in my brain forever, and happily exploiting the New World without the slightest pretense of morality or not committing crimes against humanity or ignoring slavery....this felt pretty close to coming home. As basic as the experience ultimately becomes, as broken and cheating as the AI can be, this game is foundational for a whole genre of 4x and did survival strategy and trading games well before Banished or Anno. I wouldn't really recommend this to anyone that doesn't already have fnd memories of it, but this DOSbox version---though not perfect---runs pretty well. I probably won't return to it for another decade, but it sure was a good reunion.

It's so remarkable how such an old game with so simple mechanics stood tbe test of time. I come back to this game quite often to play. Usually when I'm fed up in more modern civ builder games of their overcomplex mechanics and attempts to mirror real life. Colonization is simple, has depth, you understand at all times exactly how you're doing and is just SO MUCH FUN!