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9 Responses to “Settlers, the Video Game”

1. Uri says:

   December 30, 2009 at 3:49 AM

   I remember the game Colonization by Sid Meier. You had to build colonies and fell trees and Indians in order to win. Maybe there should be a game based on Israeli colonialism.

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2. mary says:

   December 30, 2009 at 7:53 AM

   Some enterprising Likudnik will design a game called “West Bank Conquest,” where the object is to wipe out as many Palestinians either by killing or “transferring” them. The bonus round will enable the player to continue the game in East Jerusalem. The final playoff will be a massacre on the Gaza Strip, and the big prize will be control of the gas reserves off the coast.

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3. emman says:

   December 30, 2009 at 8:39 AM

   Hi Mary,

   Astute observation, you should trademark that right now before some crazed settler actually comes up with such a game and will make a killing (pun intended).

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   • mary says:

     January 1, 2010 at 11:11 AM

     emman, are you one of my facebook friends? I think so. Please visit Richard’s blog regularly, we have great comment threads!

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4. Conrad Barwa says:

   December 30, 2009 at 9:51 AM

   I used to love Settlers II which was a real nerdy game based on harvesting resources and managing production chains, there was hardly any combat to it. Very popular in Germany for some reason. Things started to get more aggressive with Settlers IV which spawned the version you see in the post above and the game lost a lot of its charm for me.

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5. Gene Schulman says:

   December 30, 2009 at 11:54 AM

   Why bother making a game out of it? It’s already on Reality TV.

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   • mary says:

     December 30, 2009 at 6:33 PM

     I wouldn’t know, I don’t own a TV. Pollutes the mind, wastes time and distorts the moral compass.

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6. Jon says:

   January 1, 2010 at 2:56 AM

   That would be Sid Meier’s *Civilization.*

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   • mary says:

     January 1, 2010 at 11:17 AM

     Wow, the word is so ironic.

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