# Anyone remember "Ascendancy"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-ascendancy/441232>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [March 13, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-ascendancy/441232 "2008-03-13T13:25:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-ascendancy/441232/21 "2011-12-12T20:57:13Z")

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> [@matt\_mcl](#):
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> I was srsly addicted to this game when I was a kid –

Yes. And thanks for making me feel old. You were “a kid” in '95?

> **[Ascendancy (video game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascendancy_(video_game))**
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> Ascendancy is a 4X science fiction turn-based strategy computer game. It was originally released for MS-DOS in 1995 and was updated and re-released for iOS in 2011 by The Logic Factory. Ascendancy is a galactic struggle to become the dominant life form, hence the title. The game's introductory cinematic states: "Wildly different cultures competed for the same worlds. In the enormous upheaval that followed, one of these species would gain ascendancy."
> The iOS version of Ascendancy was a Universa...

Can someone give me tips in how to get this to run in Vista?

(Gah! Didn’t see it was a zombie!)

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**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-remember-ascendancy/441232/22 "2011-12-12T21:01:54Z")

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Sins of a solar Empire is “pausable” real-time.

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