From rdyer@cybercable.fr Fri Mar 10 02:21:25 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id CAA56274 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 02:21:23 -0800 Received: from racine.cybercable.fr (racine.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.201]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with SMTP id CAA11887 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 02:21:22 -0800 Received: (qmail 24247697 invoked from network); 10 Mar 2000 10:21:20 -0000 Received: from d111.paris-132.cybercable.fr (HELO cybercable.fr) ([212.198.132.111]) (envelope-sender ) by racine.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Mar 2000 10:21:20 -0000 Message-ID: <38C8CCD8.E4FB5901@cybercable.fr> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:22:16 +0100 From: Robert Dyer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [fr] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: ru,en,fr,de,el MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: videogames References: <002f01bf89e1$3a1eb0c0$58a42097@oemcomputer> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Debora, Am I the only member of the list whose son plays Caesar III all the time? I find the game much better than I would have expected, not exactly in authenticity but in suggesting the problems of building a Roman colony in hostile terrain and the questions of developing an economy, that have beset every colony in history, not least my native New Zealand. I find the constant messages from "Caesar" irritating, especially when Claude is, in the early levels, where he still is as an 11-year-old, building cities of the Republican era. But I am grateful that the manufactuers included it as a game, perhaps under the influence of the head of Hewlett Packard, formerly a classics professor! Perhaps you should ask him the question, Are you satisfied with Caesar III, installed on the PackardBell line of computers? Rob Dyer Paris, France .