It's vacation time at Gamer in Exile and instead of traveling across the state, this year, the GiE family will be taking a "stay"-cation. So, I thought that for the week I'll be at home, I would go back into the game stash and pick out one classic game to install and play each of the weekdays during the vacation. On Monday, I revisited 1999's "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri".
I remember playing "Civ 3" for what seemed like days at a time and so "Alpha Centauri" seemed like a logical progression of that franchise. To me, this game was what happed after you sent your civilization into space.
The game originally was issued for Windows 95/98. It was a smooth instillation, but there was a yes/no screen right when I launched the game that had invisible text. The only thing on the screen were two rectangles. Clicking the right box exited me out of the game, the left box allowed the game to continue.
I played most of Monday with "Alpha Centauri" and spent most of the day relearning how the tech trees progressed. After three games, I finally got back into the swing of things. By the fourth game, I had been elected as head of the council and brought peace to the new planet.
Tuesday's game, "Diablo 2".
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