#master of olympus

[bonniebird]

Throwback to my fav game xD

[sairitvs]

Zeus & Poseidon - Набор Иконок

🎁 Набор иконок № 27 для игры Zeus - Master Of Olympus и Poseidon - Master Of Atlantis (2000, 2001)

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[minloka]

You think you’re cursed? Try loving city planning games and then realizing you’re the worst city planner ever

[vgprintads]

‘Zeus: Master of Olympus’

[PC] [UK] [MAGAZINE] [2000]

PC Zone, Christmas 2000 (#97)

Scanned by Jason Scott, via The Internet Archive

Watch for trailing bronies.

[nerdingaround-blog]

Zeus: Master of Olympus - Achilles we need you, like now!

Show me some love y’all 

[falxix]

Game Manuals: Zeus - Master of Olympus

When I was younger, I'd always have some kind of game manual or strategy guide available for reading in the bathroom. I loved being able to dig even deeper into my favorite games. Diablo 2's broke out the in-game histories of each playable class.  The descriptions of armor, skills, and items added a layer of imagination on top of an already captivating atmosphere. Strategy guides offered me a total understanding of games too secretive for me to penetrate. Ultimately though, they both served to further open up the game's worlds and get me excited to hop back in the game and start exploring again. So, to that end I'd like to start discussing my appreciation of game manuals as more than just learning materials.

Zeus' 201 page manual unfolds as a story told by the Muse Calliope about the hero Democrates. It manages to keep this framing to explain everything, no matter the instruction.

Zeus: Master of Olympus

Zeus manages to explain the same material as any other game might, but makes the read interesting by framing it as a story told by a Muse about a hero's journey. It’s also more than happy to communicate through goofy humor to make the read go quickly. This tone also works to tell to player what to expect in the game proper; a game that cares about Greek mythology, but one that's also silly and eager to joke about it. The general structure of the manual is actual fairly simple, and one that doesn't deviate too far from a typical instruction manual. It has all the explanatory fluff any other game should have, just packaged with bits of character. It works seamlessly with the framing by introducing the hero Democrates to whomever is in charge of the particular mechanic: be it someone from Greek Antiquity or mythology, and then proceeds to explain the mechanic through dialog with this person. This is occasionally broken up with pictures of game objects, scenes from Greek life, or pictures of some relevant figure.

Jokey pictures like this one can be found littered throughout the manual

Of course, what really endears this manual to me is how it feels human.  I can read it and easily imagine that there was another person writing and having enough fun to put jokes into a game manual.  That someone cared enough about their game to make their game manual interesting is endlessly endearing. The three pages following the manual’s epilogue only cement that further, giving us notes from the designers. Notes about people I probably wouldn’t have thought about. But it feels more personal to hear about the game from Chris Beatrice and Tony Leier than it would from Impressions Games, I think.

[kelgrid]

That's it...

I just realized I had Master of Olympus on this computer all along

Goodbye friends I am now emperor Kelgrid I will conquer or trade everything

[deathclawsinpokeballs]

Does anyone remember Master Of Olympus game with Zeus and Poseidon?

I had found the game on Amazon a week a go and ordered and it just came in. I used to spend my whole little life on that game. One of the best City builders for the time. 

Remember the days where you had to check the system requirements to see if it could run? The Game ran a system check to make sure I could.  Look at the requirements: 

Windows 95/98/200/ME Pentium 166MHZ  32MB RAM 625MB Hard drive space plus 100MB for swap space 4x speed CD drive 2MB videocard capable of 800x600 resolution 16-bit color Those were the days guys!