Exploration

aka: Christoph Kolumbus, Exploration: A Game of Strategy and World Conquest, Voyages of Discovery
Moby ID: 4223

Exploration is a game of strategy and world conquest. With incredible depth of play, Exploration challenges you to seek fame and fortune as you embark on an expedition to uncharted New Worlds. Choose your crew, equip your ship, and buy commodities to fund your expedition.

In Exploration, challenge Christopher Columbus, James Cook, or other great explorers or, using the multi-player interactive feature, compete against up to 3 other players. In Exploration, you are in control of more than just a ship or a caravan. You are in control of an Empire. Your decisions will do more than provide enough money for the next journey, they will determine whether your nation rises to glory or fades into obscurity! Your empire, your fame and fortune await you in Exploration. Are you prepared to take the challenge?

Features:

  • Play as any of 5 explorers from Christopher Columbus to Vasco de Gama, or create your own famous explorer.

  • Walk a diplomatic tightrope while interacting with the Church, the Crown, and Military Forces.

  • Play spans three centuries, from discovery of the New World to the French Revolution.

  • Multi-player action allows competition for up to 4 players.

  • Every new game brings new worlds to discover and conquer.

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Back of the box

Set sail for the discovery of a lifetime!

You've left a comfortable home and a loving wife for 40 tough, smelly sailors who eat careless captains for breakfast. In a creaky wooden ship you plan to sail the uncharted, hostile waters of a world many are certain is flat.

But hey, there's a little downside to everything.

Out there - somewhere - await Fame and Fortune and adventure. Can you establish and nurture a colonial empire against constant competition from history's greatest explorers?

Exploration. Embark on a journey you'll never forget!

  • Play as any of five famous explorers, including Columbus and Vasco de Gama, or create your own

  • Form expeditions, explore and colonize a new land, build an empire

  • Gain fame and fortune through commerce and conquest

  • Compete against up to four players

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Advertisement in Strategy Plus, April 1995

LAND IN SICHT! CHRISTOPH KOLUMBUS EROBERT DIE LAUFWERKE IM STURM

Volle Segel voraus in eine spannungsreiche Strategie- und Handelssimulation für bis zu vier Spieler. Wählen Sie aus, ob Sie als Cristoph Kolumbus im Auftrag der spanischen Krone auf Entdeckungstour gehen oder eine andere historische Persönlichkeit aus Portugal, Holland, England oder Frankreich. Heuern Sie die Mannschaft an, rüsten Sie das Schiff aus, und los geht's auf einem der 6.400 Felder großen Karte - der Kartengenerator versetzt Sie mit jedem Spielbeginn in eine andere Welt.

Wenn Land in Sicht ist, heißt es Expeditionen bilden, Dörfer erobern, Missionen bilden, Siedler gewinnen, Plantagen pflanzen, und, und, und... Sie wollen die wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Vormachtstellung, Sie wollen ein Kolonialreich gründen und berühmt werden - wie Christoph Kolumbus.

Features * Komplexe strategische Wirtschaftssimulation * Eingebauter Kartengenerator * Amiga-Grafik zum Teil in 64 Farben * Viele animierte Sequenzen * Einfache Maussteuerung * Graphische Menues * Ein bis vier Spieler * Fehlende Spieler werden durch gleichwertige Computergegner ersetzt!

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Printed advertising - PC Player 04/94


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