About a month ago Simphoni reported on the recreation of Colonization, due for release in the fall of 2008. Forumer usman has been very helpful in finding us more information on this exciting remake! He found an article on WorthPlaying, one at Gamespot, and one at 1Up. The last one made me feel particularly old:

Here’s a quick and easy test to see how old school a PC gamer is — check to see if they’ve heard of Colonization. Most people might think that you’re talking about the Civilization franchise or perhaps imagining some knockoff, but the truebred gamers of old will fondly recall Sid Meier’s interesting twist on his Civ formula from 1994.

This “truebred gamer of old” is still thankful for his friend Rijebreier introducing him to this game back in 1995, for I have spent many an hour playing it. One thing from the original game is that there is an equivalent of the Boston tea party in there. However, the game would randomly pick a resource to throw into a random city’s harbour. I remember I always thought the “the rebels in defiance threw 50 loads of horses into New Amsterdam’s harbour” variety a bit cruel. We’ll have to see whether PETA will allow that particular twist in this new incarnation.