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Europa Universalis is 25 years old
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 11:54 am
by PhilThib
Today it has been 25 years since the first EU boardgame appeared in shops in France.
A few months later it reached the other countries, before becoming almost 7 years later the computer game that we know (and which changed a lot since I adapted it for Target Games at the time).
The game had been in development for quite some time before this official release, as the first real sample is from the early 90’s. And I even found back a prototype – called East India Companies - I had made back in 86-87 which was somewhat of a precursor of Europa.
So over 30 years ago now! Does not make me feel younger…
Re: Europa Universalis is 25 years old
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:57 pm
by delcastel
jespere quil y en aura encore beaucoup
Re: Europa Universalis is 25 years old
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 1:30 pm
by loki100
PhilThib wrote:...
The game had been in development for quite some time before this official release, as the first real sample is from the early 90’s. And I even found back a prototype – called East India Companies - I had made back in 86-87 which was somewhat of a precursor of Europa.
So over 30 years ago now! Does not make me feel younger…
that is a wonderful map
Re: Europa Universalis is 25 years old
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 3:40 pm
by Pocus
I still have the paper edition somewhere in my parent's house
Re: Europa Universalis is 25 years old
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 6:44 pm
by Taillebois
I have EU1 - but still haven't read the manual all the way through.
Recently got For The Glory - a sort of EU2 on steroids.
There's so much history in these games - thanks for all that Phil - I wish I could get more people interested in them.
Re: Europa Universalis is 25 years old
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2018 1:59 am
by Durk
Hmm, so much to learn about the history of gaming. I do hope some fellow with better knowledge than I possess writes a history, brief or conclusive of the transition of board wargaming to computer gaming.
The Diplomacy game was one of my earliest transitions.
Re: Europa Universalis is 25 years old
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2018 8:11 am
by Taillebois
By coincidence I have my copy of Paradox's version of Diplomacy to hand wondering whether to re install it just to remind myself what an awful mess they made of such a well known game.
It has cartoonish characters with animal names making grunting sounds from which you are supposed to judge whether they will honour their word. I think they abandoned it quickly and gave the rights back to Hasbro or whoever.