Windows 95/98 (can normally be made to work with Windows 2000 or XP – see Technical Issues below for tweaks and fixes), Pentium 100, 16MB RAM, 2MB PCI graphics card, 4-speed CD-ROM drive, 85 MB hard drive space, SoundBlaster or compatible with DirectX support, and mouse.
Albert Lasser and Wilfried Reiter originally wrote “1869”, a 1992 DOS/Amiga game set in a similar historic period, but with more emphasis on trading from a single ship.
It sold more than 1.7 million copies worldwide. The game was published variously by Bomico (first in Germany), Infogrames, GT Interactive Software, Infogrames again, and Electronic Arts. Programming was by Albert Lasser and Wilfried Reiter, animation and artwork by Ulli Koller and Martin Lasser, music by Marcus Pitzer, and production by Juergen Reusswig. The game was developed by Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software ( ) subsidiary, Max Design. This should mean that the pace of the game changes in response to how quickly players act. The game design is noteworthy for its attempt to implement a ‘progressive’ AI (Artificial Intelligence). 1602 is an economic, rather than combat, orientated strategy game. Parts, like expansion and movement of resources, are similar to the early Settlers games. It is set in the same period as Sid Meier’s Colonization, but involves more detailed colony management, with no “Old World” politics. It includes aspects of exploration, combat, diplomacy and trade. The game is based around colony building and resource management on a series of small islands.
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