Genre: Strategy, Turn-based
Year: 1997
Developer: MicroProse Software
OS: OS 7 - 9.2.2 (n/a OSX Classic)
CPU: 68030 - PPC
RAM: 8MB?
Video: 256 Colors
Size: 23MB
Info: Starting out with just a single unit and knowledge of a small local area, your challenge is to guide your civilization into becoming the dominant force, either by conquering every other civilization or by sending a spaceship to Alpha Centauri. Turn-based strategy, not real-time - one of the best in the genre!
You must locate cities so as to make use of food, construction and trade resources, which can be later improved by constructing irrigation, roads, mines, railroads, and farmland. Each city can construct one item at a time - military units, buildings or Wonders of the World (there are 28 of these across the different eras of the game, and only one city can possess each one). The buildings and wonders have different effects - some improve defenses, while others improve scientific research, trade or food output.