Captain's Log / star date 2008.0503
Recently I had arrive two goodies by mail. First up is Sid Meier’s Civilization, another MicroProse strategy classic that I snapped up for the handsome sum of 2,50 euros. Sid Meier has done some other classic C64 and Amiga games for MicroProse like Railroad Tycoon and one of my all time favourites: Pirates! Civilization sees you trying to build an empire that will ‘stand the test of time’. Boxed and complete with the usual, hefty manual. Now the only one missing on my list is Railroad Tycoon!
The other item that arrived was an issue of CU Amiga, in fact an issue from its CU Amiga-C64 days. CU Amiga started out long before the Amiga and underwent several changes before settling on the CU Amiga name. I’m trying to complete the whole run from its very start as VIC Computing until the last issue of late 1998. I’m a long way towards that goal though the older issues are getting increasingly hard to come by. I paid a little more than I wanted to for this issue (around 11 euros), but I console myself with the fact that for every issue like this one I usually manage to buy many more dirt cheap. Case in point being last weekend, when I picked up two issues of CU for just 1 cent each!
