<story><title>The Game of Everything, Part 1: Making Civilization</title><url>https://www.filfre.net/2018/03/the-game-of-everything-part-1-making-civilization/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jpm_sd</author><text>This game blew. my. mind. when I was a kid. The first summer we had it, I played it eight hours a day on our IBM PS&amp;#x2F;2. When school was back in session, I wrote about it and drew maps for school projects. I dreamed about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kakwa_</author><text>As a child, I loved this game.&lt;p&gt;I remember spending hours on it, not knowing what I was doing.&lt;p&gt;I had an english version of the game, and being 9 or 10 at the time, I didn&amp;#x27;t speak a word of english.&lt;p&gt;It took me ages to understand that you could switch from despotism to another form of government (monarchy, republic, etc). I was always wondering why my cities were so small, even with irrigation and railroads everywhere.&lt;p&gt;Also, I didn&amp;#x27;t have the manual, so with time, I started to learn the tech tree by heart (the &amp;quot;license&amp;quot; verification was based on knowing the parents of a given tech IIRC).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also read the civilopedia countless times.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m still proud to have beaten the game in Emperor ^^.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also spent a lot of time on other Sid Meier&amp;#x27;s games like Railroad Tycoon or Colonization.&lt;p&gt;Thank you for these lost hours.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Game of Everything, Part 1: Making Civilization</title><url>https://www.filfre.net/2018/03/the-game-of-everything-part-1-making-civilization/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jpm_sd</author><text>This game blew. my. mind. when I was a kid. The first summer we had it, I played it eight hours a day on our IBM PS&amp;#x2F;2. When school was back in session, I wrote about it and drew maps for school projects. I dreamed about it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>psyc</author><text>The game taught me some high-level things at an early age, like cities grow near water, transit lanes are like blood vessels, and food becomes people.</text></comment>