Exploration is a strategy-simulation game set during the Age of Sail. From the time of Vasco da Gama and Columbus (the late 1400s) to the French Revolution (1789), you are put in charge of a nation's imperial destiny. This means financing voyages, assembling crews, sending out land and sea expeditions, founding colonies, and occasionally engaging other European powers for global dominance.

Exploration may seem familiar to players of Civilization, Colonization, Conquest of the New World, Gold of the Americas, and even Sid Meier's Pirates!, as they borrow from exploration and cover a similar topic.

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Alternate Titles

"Voyages of Discovery" -- European English Amiga title
"Exploration: A Game of Strategy and World Conquest" -- Tag-lined title
"Christoph Kolumbus" -- German title

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Part of the Following Group

Compilation: Play the Games Vol. 1: Der 10 Spiele Super-Pack

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Exploration	DOS	$3.45
	Exploration
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User Reviews

Sid Meier's Colonization, only it's broken and isn't any fun to play.

PCGamer77

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The Press Says

PC Games (Germany)	Nov, 1994	85 out of 100	85
PC Gamer	Sep, 1995	76 out of 100	76
World Village (Gamer's Zone)	1995		40
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Dec, 1995		40

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Trivia

Development

Exploration was one of the first games to be released by new publisher Interactive Magic back in the fall of 1995.

It was no coincidence that this first release so closely resembled some classic MicroProse games like Pirates! or Colonization. Interactive Magic boss Wild Bill Stealey co-founded MicroProse with legendary designer Sid Meier in the early 1980s; I-Magic was his attempt to recapture that MicroProse Magic all over again.

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