Trivia
In the German gaming magazine PC Player (issue 01/1999) 1602 A.D. received a special award as "Most Surprising Hit in 1998".
The independent freeware title, 0 A.D was inspired by 1602 A.D.
Contributed by
Aaron A. (56) on Jan 09, 2006.
The screensaver mentioned by William Shawn McDonie was bug-pestered: the game would continue to run even when the screensaver was active - you would go to dinner, thinking everything was fine, coming back, moving the mouse and - getting the "game over" video :(
All in all, it really took some patches to make this game work properly. Being able to build on water was only one thing...
Contributed by
phlux 
(4157) on Aug 07, 2002.
There is a screensaver that will activate if you leave the game inactive for too long.
It shows a beach with a hammock and the tide coming in. Also the sound of the tide is in the background.
Very nice.
