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Control: |
Game is controlled by the same keys that are used to playing under MS DOS. For fullscreen press 'Right Alt' + 'Enter'. |
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This game is emulated by javascript emulator em-dosbox. If you prefer to use a java applet emulator, follow this link. |
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Other platforms:
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Unfortunately, this game is currently available only in this version. Be patient :-)
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Game info: |
box cover
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Game title: |
Caesar II |
Platform: |
MS-DOS |
Author (released): |
Sierra On-Line (1995) |
Genre: |
Strategy |
Mode: |
Single-player |
Design: |
Christopher J. Foster, David Lester, Simon Bradbury, Chris Beatrice |
Music: |
Jeremy A. Bell, Jason P. Rinaldi |
Game manual: |
manual.pdf
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File size: |
1260 kB |
Download: |
Caesar2.zip
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Game size: |
18232 kB |
Recommended emulator: |
DOSBox |
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
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Caesar II is a computer game of the Caesar game series that takes place in Ancient Rome; when the game begins the Roman empire extends no further than Italy. Players have the opportunity to civilize adjacent barbarian provinces, eventually reaching the entire Roman Empire at its height. When a province is civilized it unlocks the surrounding provinces. A computerized rival also completes missions both preventing the player from civilizing that province and allowing them to civilize the provinces adjacent to it (the computer has been known to civilize a province it could not have selected when it successfully civilized the last, meaning it is a randomized event, rather than AI). Unlike Caesar III, or Pharaoh, the province and city are separate spheres, as is the military. The player builds primary industry (such as mines or farms), trade facilities (such as roads or docks), and military facilities(such as forts and walls) on one map and builds their city houses, secondary industry (such as wineries or potters), and tertiary industry (such as fire stations, police stations, bath houses) on another (represented as four squares in the center of the provincial map). Also unlike later games walkers are not required to bring services to people, which is instead determined by one buildings distance from another. Invading Armies differ from later games as well, in that Barbarian towns exist within many provinces from which Barbarian armies can emanate. These are converted to Roman towns through invading them and defeating the inhabitants. Most missions require you to pacify a province and raise the citizens standard of living to a certain level, while neither suffering a military loss, nor losing the emperor's favour, often within a certain time frame. Major factors in city and province building are housing values and types of housing, unemployment/labour shortages, taxes, wages, deficits, food shortages, Military Readiness and morale, and Imperial demands. The game is won when the player has conquered sufficient provinces to attain the rank of Caesar. The game is lost if your computerized rival becomes Caesar, if Caesar removes you from your post for running too large a deficit, for going beyond your time frame, for failing to follow Imperial demands, or having the city conquered.
The game was released in 1995 and developed and designed by Impressions Games and distributed by Sierra On-Line. Initial reception of the game was positive. Arinn Dembo writing for Computer Gaming World gave the game 4 stars.
More details about this game can be found on
Wikipedia.org.
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For fans and collectors:
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Find this game on video server
YouTube.com
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Vimeo.com.
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Buy original version of this game on
Amazon.com
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eBay.com.
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Find digital download of this game on
GOG
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Steam.
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Platform: |
This version of Caesar II was designed for personal computers with operating system MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System),
which was operating system developed by Microsoft in 1981. It was the most widely-used operating system in the first half of the 1990s. MS-DOS was supplied
with most of the IBM computers that purchased a license from Microsoft. After 1995, it was pushed out by a graphically more advanced system - Windows and
its development was ceased in 2000. At the
time of its greatest fame, several thousand games designed specifically for computers with this system were created. Today, its development is no longer continue
and for emulation the free DOSBox emulator is most often used. More information about MS-DOS operating system can be found
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Available online emulators: |
5 different online emulators are available for Caesar II. These emulators differ not only in the technology they use to emulate old games, but also in support of various game controllers, multiplayer mode, mobile phone touchscreen, emulation speed, absence or presence of embedded ads and in many other parameters. For
maximum gaming enjoyment, it's important to choose the right emulator, because on each PC and in different Internet browsers, the individual emulators behave differently. The basic
features of each emulator available for this game Caesar II are summarized in the following table:
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Emulator
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Technology
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Multiplayer
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Fullscreen
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Touchscreen
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Speed
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Archive.org
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JavaScript
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YES
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NO
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NO
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fast
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js-dos
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JavaScript
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YES
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YES
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NO
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fast
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js-dos 6.22
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JavaScript
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YES
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YES
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NO
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fast
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jsDosBox
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JavaScript
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YES
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NO
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NO
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slow
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jDosBox
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Java applet
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YES
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YES
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NO
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fast
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