The Seven Cities of Gold

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Description

In The Seven Cities of Gold the player takes on the role of Christopher Columbus and the later Spanish conquistadors, exploring the New World (or a randomly generated map). As the player establishes forts and missions, bringing back gold to Spain, he or she would receive promotions from the Queen of Spain. The game features a large world to explore and comes up with some arcade sequences to simulate the interaction of the Natives and Spanish who did not speak the same language. The historical map accurately spreads out the Native population of the New World in 1492 and some historical situations can be simulated, such as whether to get the gold of the Aztec and Incas by trade or conquest.

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Alternate Titles

• "Seven Cities of Gold" -- In-game title

Part of the Following Groups

• Games with randomly generated environments
• Merchant / Trade-oriented games
• Seven Cities of Gold series

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Critic Reviews

TeleMatch	Atari 8-bit	Aug, 1984	1 out of 6	100
Home Computing Weekly	Commodore 64	Sep 03, 1985		100
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Apple II	Oct, 1990		80
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Macintosh	Oct, 1990		80
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Atari 8-bit	Nov, 1987	8.2 out of 12	68
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Commodore 64	Nov, 1987	8 out of 12	67
Tilt	Amiga	Jul, 1988	10 out of 20	50
Popular Computing Weekly	Amiga	Jul 10, 1986		45
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Atari 8-bit	Jun, 1984	Unscored	Unscored
Happy Computer	Amiga	Nov, 1985	Unscored	Unscored

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Trivia

Apple version

Accoding to designer Dan Bunten, the only "full" version of the game was made for the Atari. All other ports, including the better selling Commodore version, had to compromise some of the original game aspects to make the port.

Edutainment

This was the first game to be classified as "edu-tainment" by EA founder Trip Hawkins.

Random generator

Includes a "world generator" if you find the Americas to be too "boring". The world is generated with the proper algorithms, including mountains, hills, rivers and such, with different levels of civilizations from simple villages to a "heart" of civilization like the Incans and Mayans.

Awards

• Computer Gaming World
  • November 1985 (Vol. 5.5) - Strategy Game of the Year (Readers' Choice)
  • November 1996 (15th Anniversary Issue) - #61 in the “150 Best Games of All Time" list

Information also contributed by Kasey Chang and PCGamer77