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I've been trying to find an old game that I used to play either on the NES or SNES, but I can't remember the name of the game, which makes finding it exceedingly difficult!
It was a civilization game, where you could play on different landscapes (snow, greenery, candyland) and little people walked around randomly building houses on the land that you leveled for them. They would build in population, and you would have to gather them together in order to fight an opposing people (ran by the comp, single player game). Very simple really, not a lot to the game. Could you help me out?
That sounds like the classic SNES game (which later turned into one of the best-selling PC games of all time) Civilization (also called Sid Meier's Civilization). I was an oldskool Civilization fan but I played the PC version on an old Mac- back when it was played entirely on floppy disc. The newer ones are more complicated but they still have the charm and general game play of the original game.
I hope this helps- let me know if I can help you more.
Thanks!
Helen =)
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Helen Joan Casper
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Ever since I played "Pong" in the early 80's, I've been a video game aficionado. I can answer hardware & games questions about PSP (PlayStation Portable), all PlayStation (1,2,& 3), Wii, Wii Fit, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Nintendo (NES), Super Nintendo, Gameboy/Gameboy Advance, and antiquated systems (ColecoVision, Atari, Sega, etc). I can answer hardware questions about all systems (including PS1 - PS3, Wii, NES, SNES, PSP, DS, GBA, GB, Xbox and Xbox 360). I can also answer PC game questions, especially CounterStrike: Source, Vampire: Bloodlines, Half-Life 1&2, Portal, Team Fortress 2, and all Sims & Sims 2 questions. I am ESPECIALLY knowledgeable in Square-Enix (formerly SquareSoft) games such as ALL the Final Fantasy games (I can even tell you really obscure things about these games). If I haven't played the game yet I will research it and help you find the answer, renting the game if necessary. I can even answer questions dealing with the consoles themselves (hardware questions). I cannot answer questions about Action Replay. I cannot answer questions about football, basketball, or wrestling sports games. I also have very limited knowledge about Xbox & Xbox 360 games unless they are cross-platform. If it is an independent game that has not been widely published and/or a game only released in some countries, I may not be able to help with it either (sadly!)
Experience
I currently am employed as a supervisor for a large, national video game retailer. I am also an expert here in games/roleplaying games, weddings, childbirth, and doulas. My husband is a computer programmer and one of the forefront coders for CounterStrike: Source scripts & mods. He has his own forums for coders/scripters at Mattie.Info. I have been an expert here since 2000 (under the name of Helen Chipman) and also volunteer on numerous other game-related websites and forums.
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