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[mkrco]

I played this game quite a few years ago but I can't for the life of me seem to remember. I literally went through the whole abandonia, HOTU, and even dosbox game lists in the hope that it might jog my memory, but I can't. In the game you play the part of a time traveller. You have a spaceship/time machine. And there are 3 or 4 different species which you can seed throughout the galaxy. Your task then is to guide each of the species to intelligence, industrialism, and eventually space conquest. The way this is done is that, as a time traveller you can scan the whole timeline for each species (from beginning to end) and you can locate the critical events in their history and try to change them by giving instructions to your little minions. Often times they'll also ask you for help with natural disasters,etc. I remember the game being very hard, but a lot of fun because you could change particular events and watch the whole future of the species change. Then if you don't like it, just go back and try changing it again. But I think there was also something about not being able to meet yourself. Does anyone have any idea what game I'm talking about?? I also remember that you had to get your species to develop fast enough in order to defeat this other species (bad guys) who were hellbent on conquering the galaxy. And you had to balance it in such a way that in the end your species would defeat the bad guys and then each had to control roughly an equal number of star systems in the galaxy. So does anyone else remember this game?? It's beeen driving me crazy the past two days trying to figure it out..

thanks

[Sebatianos]

Sound interesting, but there are several games that come to mind... none of them would directly fit the description.

Can you give some more info?

Aproximate time frame (when you saw/played it), info about graphics, OS needed (DOS/Windows game - or possible a non-PC game), input device (mouse, keyboard)...

Anyway, here are some games that I could think of that might be simular to what you said:
Utopia
Supremacy
Ascendancy

Zardula Incursion (can't find any refrences for the game, but do own the disc - just a lot of stats, but can't really see the minions you control)

[mkrco]

You know, this game just randomly popped into my head a couple of days ago, and it was just driving me nuts that I couldn't remember what it was called. So after I wrote that post I went to bed, and when I woke up in the morning I remembered the name all of a sudden. It's called Millennia: Altered Destinies. It's a 1995 game from Take 2 Interactive. I even managed to find a place that still had it.. [removed link] - sold game ~Luchsen

And it seems to run very well in XP under dosbox. This is truly one of the most original games out there. And it is pretty obscure too, I remember it wasn't a big hit at all when it came out, and I just found it randomly floating around a BBS. This game's a real brainteaser, and it's got quite a twist with the time travel bit. Much of the dialogue is pretty funny. And there is a perverse sense of pleasure you get from guiding a race of people, living on an cold icy world for thousands of years. Guiding them all the way up to the brink of space travel, only to then go back in time and erase the invention of fire from their history and watch them disappear real quick. It's not as easy game, but once you start thinking in 4 dimensions you get the hang of it eventually. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone.