I think I learned more about the early days of US history (from the Founding Fathers on) from one of the characters in DotT (Hoagie, on whom Garth in Wayne's World is surely based) than from anywhere else, other than the game Colonization and from the tapes of the Bernard Cornwell novels to which Papa used to make us listen.
OK, so maybe I didn't/wouldn't get all of the SF in-jokes (indeed, most of those listed on the io9 post went completely over my head), but DotT is still a wonderful game and I miss it deeply. Colonization, Civ II, Sim City 2000 and Sam and Max too, for that matter. My ailing laptop is so jammed full with music, photos and porn that there's no way I could get those games to work now, even if I did find the emulator software (if it is software at all...).
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