Back in the days when I was still playing Doom and Commander Keen on my pentium 120. A friend of mine showed me a game, it wasnt a shooter or a side scroller, but this strange game about colonising the new world.
My English was barely enough to make any sence of the gameplay and different aspects of the economy and diplomacy.
But Boy howdy was I blown away.
The graphics were supreme, sure it cant hold a candle anymore today, but for those days the "3D" landscape was damn impressive. If you zoomed in on your town, you could see the buildings come alive, and showed you what was happening, sometimes you could even see something funny, like a bear attack.
When I was used to sound effects sounding like "Bleep Bleep pew pew" the orchestrated score of Conquest was again, mindblowing. Not to mention the deathcries of your fallen foes.
One thing though, The computer must be cheating. When I could build a reasonable force after a while, the CPU would bombard me with army after army after army.
Building an empire hasnt been this much fun since this game.