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Caesar 1
What is it?
A historical SimCity clone with some combat that would become the first of the City Builder Series, 1992, Amiga and 1993, DOS/VGA and a Macintosh port that's best forgotten.
What computer will it run on?
A 386 is ideal.
Similar Games
Dune II, Pizza Tycoon, Warcraft.
The first Caesar game was developed in 1992 by the British company Impressions for the Amiga, and ported to the Atari ST and the PC in the next year. This company, founded in 1991 by David Lester who designed most of the games, had already brought out a few only moderately successful strategy games, some already in a Roman setting. With Caesar they finally found success or, as one reviewer put it, their true calling.
The idea behind Caesar was to create a game like Sim City, but with more gameplay. Instead of just building one city, you would get several assignments and move up a career ladder; some strategic combat was involved, too. It put Impressions on the map.
For a while, this first version was offered as a free download by Impressiongames. This page is long gone. For a while it was on the website of the upcoming Caesar IV, but it vanished from there too. The only place I know where you can currently download it, along with the desperately needed manual, is Home of the Underdogs.
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