> Sid Meier's Colonization is a turn-based strategy game themed on
> early European colonization. In Colonization, players set out to
> discover and explore the New World, establish colonies, and finally
> achieve independence from Europe. This is easier said than done, as
> there are many challenges along the way. - [Colonization Fans][1]

Excellent game, classic in every respect, and actually reasonably
educational in that it seems to simulate colonial existence pretty
well while still being enjoyable. I have only some minor complaints:
I've always had stability problems with it, and it virtually
completely fails to run under 9 or classic. Neither the French, nor,
especially, the Spanish have special abilities nearly as useful as the
English or Dutch (and the Dutch, in some ways, have the best, which is
interesting, considering the Dutch colonization effort was nowhere
near as heavy an influence on later history as the other three.).
Resource management is tricky. And the game as a whole is VERY
difficult. Not so much in a computer cheats sort of way, like Civ III
is difficult, but just plain hard: it's difficult at best to raise any
sort of fighting force, and one that compares to the home country's
army when you declare independence, harder yet. And even simple colony
raising is quite hard with the multiplicity of resources and necessary
tasks for a limited pool of colonists.

DL #1 contains the game in a folder without audio tracks.

DL #2 contains a Toast image of the data (game) track of this mixed
mode CD, documentation and audio tracks in MP3 format.

DL #3 contains a bin/cue image of original media. Burn with Toast
(Mac) or ImgBurn (Win) to make a physical CD containing both game and
audio tracks

DL #4 contains a bin/cue image of the game translated to Japanese.

[User Mods Available][2]
User-made scenarios and maps are available on the Mac Mod Paradise

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k PPC

68040 or PPC
System 7.0 or higher
8MB RAM
13MB hard drive space
Double Speed (2X) CD-ROM
256 Colors

  [1]: http://www.colonizationfans.com/#newfans
  [2]: http://mac.mod-paradise.com/colonization