Dandyfunk

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One of my favorite series of games is Caesar.
I started with the C1 on a windows 95 box, and although it was dos it was playable. Alas, while interesting, it was too far behind the times.
Next came C2, which I enjoyed best of the series. The Caesar games are a combination Sim City Rome with combat. C2 had you armies fighting off barbarian hordes in a separate window while your city management was conducted in another.
C3 changed the feel of the game by combining the two, and having combat take place inside your city.
What I really liked about these games was the designing and management of the city. Where to put housing, baths, services.  And I always tried to make it look good.

Now comes  Rome Reborn ver 1.0. Not a game, but a  digital recreation of Rome, circa 320 AD.  See it here.

Doom

The new Doom movie is coming out, and while I probably won't see it, it will go into my Netflix queue.

If it does stir up some nostalgia, and you're not in the mood to configure Windows XP to run a DOS game, check out the work the guys at Doomsday HQ have done to port the original Doom to modern machines. You'll need your wad files from your disks (3 1/5" --  remember when games came on those?) to play more than the shareware version.

And if you given up games to walk around all trendy with your iPod, checkout the Doom remixed soundtracks.

I recomend the Ashley Carr remixes. And no, I don't have an iPod. I have a  Nomad.