The Seven Cities of Gold for the Atari 8-bit family

Came also out for:
Amiga
Apple II
Commodore 64
Macintosh
PC Booter
Game description:
In The Seven Cities of Gold the player takes on the role of Christopher Columbus and the later Spanish conquistadors, exploring the New World (or a randomly generated map). As the player establishes forts and missions, bringing back gold to Spain, he or she would receive promotions from the Queen of Spain. The game features a large world to explore and comes up with some arcade sequences to simulate the interaction of the Natives and Spanish who did not speak the same language. The historical map accurately spreads out the Native population of the New World in 1492 and some historical situations can be simulated, such as whether to get the gold of the Aztec and Incas by trade or conquest.
What I think:
Children of the sun, see your time has just begun...Nah, just kidding. ;)
Anyways, this game is kinda deep and interesting, but it becomes too repetitive and sometimes even tedious.
It is also really hard trying to trade with the natives, unfortunately. As much as I would love to trade with them they always bump into me, no matter how hard I try to avoid them, giving me no other chance to fight them. sigh

[@Breakfast_of_Champions]

One of my favorite games of all time. To my knowledge the first use of virtual memory on the 8-bits, the gigantic world map was an awesome achievement in its own right.

[@greenatom]

I was fascinated by this game, but I never got very far with it. I would try like hell to get along with the natives but I always inadvertently made them mad. It was years, decades, later that I learned that the way to "communicate" with them was to mimic the movements of their leaders, and they would get along with you without any warfare. I wish I had figured that out!

[@chrishelbling3879]

Had forgotten all about this fabulous game. Early Rockstar, you could play it as good guy or bad guy. Thanks for posting.

[@CCJJ160Channels]

Loved this game as a kid. I would go discover the New World, then go back to Spain and load up on trade goods. Then go back and keep gifting to the Inca's until they became Christians, the rest of the empire would follow and it would make the exploration of South America go much more smoothly!

[@questort]

lol

[@CCJJ160Channels]

C3 - so you largely followed history? Well played, sir. Well played!