Summary

'Gold of the Americas' is a computer game on two floppy disks with a booklet and two marketing cards in a cardboard box with a printed sleeve. The game was released in 1990.

'Gold of Americas' is a political, economic and military strategy game about the exploitation of North and South America during the period 1500 to 1800. A player takes the role of one of the following colonial powers: Spain, Portugal, France or England. Players are able to marshal armies, set up colonies and trading expeditions. Players can pillage native empires, mine resources and invest in development. The interaction with other players includes raiding of assets and invasion.

This object was collected because it was designed and produced by an Australian software development company, the Strategic Studies Group, commonly known as SSG, that makes strategy war games.

It was also collected because it is representative of the use of the graphic user interface (GUI) introduced in 1983, even though the game itself was released in 1990.

In 1983, the donor's parents gave him an Apple II Europlus. He used it for essays, medical school assignments and games. He became especially interested in war games and he stated that an Australian Sydney-based company Strategic Studies Group had the best war games at that time, which he began and continued to collect.

Part of a representative collection of hardware, software, trade literature and promotional material that documents the history of the Apple company, and its contribution to, and impact on the computer industry and society.

Physical Description

A white cardboard box in printed sleeve,. The box contains two floppy disks with labels, a booklet of 16 pages a registration card and a blue order form/ post card.

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