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Sid Meier’s Re-Colonization (Games Blog Banter)

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Sid Meier’s Colonization is being re-made! Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Game re-makes have been around for many years now, games developers and publishers every so often have a ‘brainwave’ and end up improving on classic older titles – perhaps others feel they can at least sell a few games off the back of original’s reputation regardless of what they produce?

When it comes to Sid Meier though I think he’s definitely in the former category – not only can he produce a great game once, but he can re-produce it over a decade later!

Sid Meier’s Railroads!

‘Railroads!’ is Sid Meier’s follow-up to his great Railroad Tycoon games – I remember many evenings and weekends were lost to that 2D top-down aspect game on my Commodore Amiga, especially since it was one of the first business/economic management game with real depth I recall playing.