![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Civilisation itself is cast as one immense, wind-up clock. Agriculture leads to pottery and so on, all the way to the invention of rocket boosters. The evolution of human society is represented as inexorable progress from one civilisational breakthrough to another. Although players can choose which leader to play – Alexander the Great, Montezuma, Genghis Khan – the differences between them are really only cosmetic. Civilization – which, in an upgraded incarnation, remains a bestseller to this day – requires those who play it to lead a tribe of hunter-gathers, and guide them through all the various stages of history until with luck, by AD2100, they have reached Alpha Centauri in a spaceship. B ack in 1991, when personal computers were still in their infancy, a hugely influential video game appeared which challenged players to "build an empire to stand the test of time". ![]()
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