Games of Empire are huge time sinks and very addictive. As you build larger and larger collections of units (armies, various ships and planes) and capture more territory you need more and more time to carry out grand invasion maneuvers and resupply operations - but the vision of how it will unfold keeps you glued to the keyboard. In my bachelor days I burned more than a few weekends over this game.

So its with quite a nostalgic grin that I discovered a small company KillerBeeSoftware had purchased the source code and released a new Windows XP compatible version of this classic. For 27 bucks I couldn't resist.