Exploration

Description

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.

Alternate Titles

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

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     Please select your country: United States Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Canada Chile China Colombia Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Japan Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Malaysia Malta Mexico The Netherlands New Zealand Norway Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Uruguay Vietnam Other Worldwide Not an American user?

User Reviews

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

DOS

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The Press Says

PC Games (Germany)	DOS	Nov, 1994	85 out of 100	85
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Jan, 1994	80 out of 100	80
PC Gamer	DOS	Sep, 1995	76 out of 100	76
Power Play	Amiga	Mar, 1994	74 out of 100	74
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	DOS	Dec, 1995		40
World Village (Gamer's Zone)	DOS	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.