Sid Meier's Colonization
DOS - 1994
Also released on: Windows 3.x - Mac - Amiga
Description of Sid Meier's Colonization
Sid Meier's Colonization, a really nice simulation game sold in 1994 for DOS, is available and ready to be played again! Also available on Windows 3.x, Mac and Amiga, time to play a historical battle (specific/exact), managerial, turn-based, trade, europe, north america, south america, 4x, generated levels, turn-based strategy and age of enlightenment video game title.
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Comments and reviews
The Pilgrim 2024-04-29 2 points
A game feature not properly explained in the manual neither any guide I have read (and I have read a lot), is that you can get an indian convert each time you attack a native village in which you have previously depolyed a mission. If the mission was set up by a Jesuit Missionary, or if you have Jean de Berbeuf, the chance of getting a forced convert is like 90% per attack, otherwise it's like 40% unless you have Gines de Sepulveda, which provides a 100%.
This game mechanic is what Spain's 50% bonus against indian villages is really for. Together with the fact that Spain always starts with a veteran soldier (even at Viceroy level), and that Spain always starts with a Jesuit Missionary in the Recruiting Pool (another undocumented feature), this means you can get a decent surge of indian converts very early on, which are very useful for new colonies because they have a +1 bonus to food production. The other three countries doesn't get the combat bonuses or the guaranteed Jesuit early on, so this strategy doesn't works so well for them (they have their own national bonuses, which are also powerful if properly applied).
Note that you doesn't need to burn the indian villages to get the converts, so you will lose no score. You can get as much as 4 or 5 converts from a village if the tribe is at least agrarian, without burning it. If you do burn it, however, you will get your missionary back.
If you follow this strategy, the natives will get annoyed at you very soon, and will burn down your missions. So you need to apply a carrot-and-stick approach, giving them free gifts after attacks to appease them (1 trade good or tool is enough, preferably to the tribe's capital).
The main drawback of this strategy is that each indian convert you get counts for the total number of colonists in America, and that will increase the cost of recruiting new colonists at the docks of Europe. This can be a problem early on, when you can get free specialists (or at least, low-cost) in the recruitment pool. Later on it's cheaper to hire specialists directly from the Royal University anyway.
Also, you will need to recruit Bartolomé de las Casas later on, as he is the only way to turn indian converts into normal colonists, who can then be taught a profession. The indian convert bonus to food production stops being useful when you begin to get Master Farmers.
Lack of documentation of this feature, togheter with the lack of documentation about Spain's real starting bonuses, is the fact why most veteran players of the game think that Spain's starting bonus is underpowered compared to the other colonial powers. It isn't.
Why the game developers designed Spain to be played this way, but failed to tell anyone about it, is lost to me. Apparently, the game designers felt it was less controversial to let people assume they designed Spain to be played as a mad indian burner and looter, instead of letting people know that Spain was designed for bullying natives into christianity at swordpoint.
But meh, we are talking about the people who made up flimsy excuses about why they didn't include Portugal as 4th colonial power, when anyone with a smigden of historical knowledge can figure out that they didn't include Portugal because they didn't want to feature slave trade in this game.
AntarianNet 2024-03-27 1 point
Do you really think I want to buy 30y old game on GoG and running it on DOSBox?
GoG is not paying a dime to DOSBox. They are thieves and vampires living from your nostalgia. Wake up and stop buying old games you already bought in the past.
Michael Goldrim 2022-10-16 1 point
All you have to do is unpack the raw data file into a binary shell and it can run on most current gen systems. No problem your welcome
Goldberg 2022-03-02 0 point
@Larry you can get amiga .adf files from other sites, Planet Emu has a lot.
larry 2021-11-01 0 point
how are we supposed to play amiga version? when mr. gog gets the license of a game, all versions get removed from anywhere and he doesn't bother sell those versions, as well!
Ben 2017-03-14 1 point
I downloaded the game from Amazon for 1,79 and can play it in a Dosbox in Windows. However, I want to play it on my Linux laptops, too. I can play the Windows version over WINE which then starts Dosbox, but that's taking up too much ressources from my old acer D270. Therefore, I need a working DOS-Version of the game. Does anyone have one?
MadBomber 2017-02-17 0 point DOS version
Another great game I also own. To bad the download button is gone. And I had made a better cheat some years ago for this game. Sneaky sneaky.
God Bless all!
bloating face 2016-11-29 0 point
it's glorious to see how people rate the game good and find that the download disappeared.
well, if you rate it too good then they start selling it, it's pretty simple, do not rate it good even if it is the best game in the world, that way you will always have it free for download
GoGaredicks 2016-11-23 3 points
Not surprising to find GoG buying up the rights to abandonware then packaging it with Dosbox and selling it. If they didn't do that folks would be able to dowload games like this for nothing along with the free Dosbox and play them. What is slighly surprising is that GoG are a subsidiary of CD Projeckt Red, fucking shame on you guys, we expect better ethical standards from you.
LewisCowles1986 2016-09-24 5 points
This is a real shame... I own the GoG version, but it's shit and won't play so basically copyright is probably stopping me having a working version of the game. Fuck you GoG!
Cronnel 2015-11-29 0 point DOS version
What no dos version? need a copy i think i have one still in my archives.
Bob the Abandonware Gamer 2015-06-15 3 points DOS version
Figures that some jerkwads would "Buy" the rights to this game and sell it to keep it out of the hands of people who actually bought it when it was new. I wonder if they do actually buy the rights to old games or do they just charge for pirating software.
Minion0ne 2015-05-25 2 points DOS version
wow! So dissapointed it's unavailable for download. the new version they released is ok, but this game was always awesome! one of my favorite games before it got stolen!
RvonW 2014-07-23 0 point DOS version
Awesome stuff, pretty much played it since I was 9 years old...
Martijn 2014-07-03 -1 point DOS version
What a game,.. played this so much,.. so addictive.. I loved having a small island with some rivers on it..
tydeas 2014-04-17 1 point DOS version
i use to play colonization for over a decade.
i have own the original version in DOS but lost it in movements from house to house, it has a usefull manual with it.
Since i lost my original cd i always try to find it from internet, because i am addicted to this game, i run all the series with all the nations again ang again .
Still want to play when i have the time
Mister X 2013-11-25 0 point DOS version
Hi guys, that is a 1994 game but there was also a win 3.1 verison, would be fine to see it on myabandonware!
For patches (eg. patch to upgrade win3.1 ver to win95/98 one)
check here: http://www.colonization.biz/download.htm#UPGRADES
euntalan 2013-09-28 0 point DOS version
im trying to install this to windows 7, but there is an error coming. Anyone can help me how to install this game at windows 7?
Thanks in advance
Fabi 2013-09-20 0 point DOS version
Hello i know the Problem of the black Screen!
Just click on the executable File named: INSTALL
then you come to a Menu where u have to try varius configurations.
For me worked this settings:
Adlib or compatible (Sound)
Sound Blaster orig.
Configure Card:
210 Hex
IRQ 15
DRQ 3
But with this Settings i had no sound
pstone 2013-05-21 0 point DOS version
I cant play this game I have tried using a few different emulators the game launches into a black screen i use windows xp anyone can help ?
antares330 2013-03-22 0 point DOS version
Reply to SSSS
If you want a new version of this try free col or the one that came out with Civ 4!
BUT FOR ME, I LOVE THIS GAME! although it was put out on the same year i was Born! i love retro games :)
A Wise Old Man 2013-02-19 0 point DOS version
Sid was cranking out so many "sims" in those days everyone was expecting "Sid Meier's Trash Collecting Sim" or "Sid Meier's Bum On The Streets Sim" any day.
Sick Mick 2012-08-27 0 point DOS version
Thank you very much for this. :D
Playing this game again is like meeting an old friend.
Collock 2012-04-21 0 point DOS version
Better than the remake done a few years ago as a standalone on the Civ Iv engine to me other than Alpah Centaury this is still the most fund Sid Meier game to replay.
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2 MB (DOS)
Other Releases
Sid Meier's Colonization was also released on the following systems:
Windows 3.x
- Year: 1995
- Publisher: ITOCHU Corporation, MicroProse Software, Inc.
- Developer: MPS Labs
Mac
- Year: 1995
- Publisher: Atari Interactive, Inc., ITOCHU Corporation, MicroProse Software, Inc., Night Dive Studios, LLC, Tommo Inc.
- Developer: MPS Labs
Amiga
- Year: 1995
- Publisher: MicroProse Software, Inc.
- Developer: MPS Labs
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