# What was this game? (Mac)

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [January 28, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-mac/679912 "2014-01-28T03:08:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-mac/679912/1 "2014-01-28T03:08:26Z")

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I used to play a macintosh game probably in the early 1990s though the game may be older than that. It was a fairly simple military conquest game where you had tanks, ships, and possibly planes and you moved across a map capturing factories that allowed you to make more tanks, ships, and planes so you could further your expansion.

Anyone know what game this was?

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**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-mac/679912/2 "2014-01-28T03:13:22Z")

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It sounds like [Strategic Conquest](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Conquest).

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-mac/679912/3 "2014-01-28T03:27:33Z")

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Yes that’s it, thanks very much.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-mac/679912/4 "2014-01-28T15:26:32Z")

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A web-based game based on that old Mac app is available [here](http://www.strategicdomination.com/). If you want to get the original game up and running on a modern computer, you’ll definitely need an emulator. I’d check out if the easiest emulator to set up (Executor) works with it, but the game still being sold at [$25](http://deltatao.com/stratcon/), and thus is not abandonware.

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-mac/679912/5 "2014-01-28T23:05:46Z")

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Thanks **BigT**. Everything I read suggested that I needed to have OS9 or earlier running in some form or another, either on an old computer, or via an emulator. As I don’t have access to OS9 I wasn’t going to worry about it. Will check out the web game though.

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**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-mac/679912/6 "2014-02-03T01:33:23Z")

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> [@buckgully](#):
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> It sounds like [Strategic Conquest](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Conquest).

I played something similar, but different than that. I loved that game!

Is anything similar available for Windows machines?

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**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-game-mac/679912/7 "2014-02-06T18:24:41Z")

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> [@buckgully](#):
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> It sounds like [Strategic Conquest](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Conquest).

If you read the linked article it states in the first sentence that it’s similar to (copied from?) [Empire](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Empire_(computer_game)), which was what I thought of from the OP’s description. I played Empire on a Data General MV/8000 when I was in college.