Pharaoh Gold

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Pharaoh Gold From Sierra List Price: $29.99 Price: $9.05 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Ships from and sold by Galactics 24 new or used available from $6.86 Average customer review:

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3000 Years of Egypt rolled into one classicpackageProduct InformationImmerse yourself in Ancient Egypt from the age of the Great Pyramids to thefinal years of the New Kingdom. Govern all aspects of the exotic Egyptianculture from religion to trading with distant cities.Cultivate vast farms in the Nile valley and discover the important role thisriver with its unpredictable floods played in the life of the Egyptians. Stone by stone erect giant monuments from the Sphinx the Great Pyramids theColossi of Ramses II at Abu Simbel to the lighthouse and library of Alexandria. Battle against other ancient cultures and even against Octavian and the Romanson land or water.Be sure to interact with your citizens. Scribes Scholars Priests Embalmersand more will inform you how wisely you rule.  The Nile is a fickle friend.Pay careful attention to its flooding to avoid the devastating effects ofdrought and famine – deadly plagues.Includes Pharaoh Queen of the Nile Cleopatra Expansion PackProduct Features Build the grandest most realistic monuments ever seen brick by brick including The Great Pyramids The Sphinx and more. Govern all aspects of the exotic Egyptian culture from worshipping gods and embalming the dead to trading with distant cities. Defend against invasions on land and water. Build armies and fleets to protect your civilization. Gameplay based on actual ancient Egyptian economy and industry.Minimum Requirements Windows 98 Me XP 133 MHz processor 32 MB of RAM 630 MB Hard Disk space DirectX 6.0 1 MB DirectX 6.0 compatible Graphics Card DirectX 6.0 compatible Sound Card 4X CD-ROM drive Mouse Keyboard 

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4813 in Video Games
• Brand: Sierra
• ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
• Platform: Windows XP
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: .6 pounds

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Customer Reviews

Great all ages game! We had purchased this game several years ago,but the disc became too scratched to use. We ended up rebuying it because it truly is a family favorite. In the original Pharaoh game, one uses logic to plan, build, and manage increasingly more complex Egyptian cities. The cities must include a means to feed and shelter the inhabitants, industry, entertainment, goverment services, educational services, and religious facilities. You keep a delicate balance between spending too much money (going into debt) and not enough money (not providing the services/facilities/jobs necessary to keep your inhabitants happy). While it seems relatively simple, it's not always an easy balance to strike. As you progress further into the game, you must not only keep your inhabitants happy, but you must also develope foreign relations, trade routes, and prepare for war. Cleopatra is the expansion pack for the Pharaoh series. Overall, our family enjoys this game, and it is one of the few that they have come back to over and over for years. As a parent, I appreciate that this game requires a great deal of thought and patience to beat. The graphics, while not as quality as games produced today, are not so dated as to make the game unappealing. The graphics are the main reason we gave the game a 4 - otherwise, we like it enough to give it a 5. Try Heroin First, it'll help train you to break addictions This is the kind of game that you'll initially sit down at, after playing for ten minutes remark "This is stupid. I'll go till the end of this stage then its in the dumpster." then find yourself playing and realize its 2am next Thursday. The missions are entertaining, the citybuilding aspect is intuitive and surprisingly complicated to master, and the system its all based on, whhile frustrating at times, is easy to work with. Gameplay: 9/10. The setup is the same as any city building/Sim City design, with more foucs obviously on the nuts and bolts of running a city. You have to create a good balance between residence and industry, keep them close together without sacrificing appeal, and still keep enough space and people to run all of your services and buildings. And keep a good, strong armed force. A couple points fall through the cracks that are annoying, and when you stumble upon them you'd wish the game had mentioned them, but those are few and far between. Story/Audio: 10/10. The voices of the citizens are amusing and actually very helpful in determining what your cities problems are, if any exist. The narration is accurate to time frame and history, as far as I'm aware, and follows the rise and fall of the kingdom. While it would've been nice to have more mission audio, what little there is still manages to be very entertaining. Graphics: 7/10: Being as far along as technology is, most people will frown at these. Bear in mind how old the game is, and its not too terrible a flaw for an otherwise fantastic game. The best part is considering your system is probably a 1.5 - 3.5 GHz, 2 Gb RAM setup, this game is so compact and streamlined it'll run smoother than your screensaver. Overall: 9.5/10. I picked this back up after I stopped playing almost 6 years ago. A game with that kind of staying power is impressive. The history and involvement the game has is incredible, and while it'll get repetitive by the end, until you start to get sick of it, you'll be hopelessly addicted. Hours of fun.................. I origionally bought this game in 2000 and played for endless hours. I lost sleep over it at times. I played off and on over the next six years. It's challenging and entertaing at the same time. My ex took it with him when he left and I found myself dying to play, so I bought this one and it has been great. I can't wait to get to the second disk and see what they added.