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DESCRIPTION
Simbabwe... You have to burn a lot of houses to become one of the world's foremost tyrants.
Welcome to Simbabwe, where the property is already owned and the houses built and you compete to burn and dispossess them. Plunder farms, deny grain silos to opposition supporters, rig elections, gaol opponents and taunt the Commonwealth as you use intimidation and stooges to create a mugaboly on power.
Compete with Robert Mugabe, Canaan Banana, Cecil Rhodes and Sir Godfrey Huggins to earn a place on the all-time EU travel ban list.
Easy to play but difficult to escape from, Simbabwe is a richly detailed, evolved board game with unscrupulous AI and editorial cartoon graphics.
Familiar gaming metaphors and an authentic OS X aqua interface minimise the download-to-despotism time. Detailed in-game help is provided to get players and their thugs up and burning as quickly as possible.
Features:
- Challenging AI
- Sophisticated inflation model: watch prices go up and savings erode every time you print money.
- International reputation model: your actions determine whether you get aid, a travel ban or a slam dunk in the slammer on setting foot outside Zimbabwe.
- Splenetic graphics
- Vibrant sound effects
- Over 60 dynamically triggered events, including adopting Marxism in 1988, the Land Reallocation Act 1992 and Operation Drive Out Rubbish
- Detailed in-game help
- Plumes of smoke
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.8: - Plumes of noxious smoke billow from torched other people's property
- Bug fixes and tweaks
- Version number incremented
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
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| Simbabwe User Reviews (14 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Apr 17 2008 |
MPROUD Crashes during launch on MBP 15" 2.2 GHz with 10.5.2. Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000 Application Specific Information: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Invalid parameter not satisfying: _displayPostingDisableCount > 0'
(Version 1.8) | |
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| Feb 24 2008 |
VETOLA I have iMac Intel Core 2 Duo and Mac OS X 10.5.2. This game (1.7.1) won't launch. Crash everytime I try to launch it.
(Version 1.7.1) | |
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 | Feb 24 2008 |
THEDAILYGRIND I have uploaded a new version (1.7.1) that ought to address the problems some Leopard users have been having. Thanks for your patience. Please let me know how the revised code runs on your machine by emailing: software-support (at) thedailygrind.net
(Version 1.7) | |
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 | Feb 23 2008 |
ZANGIEF No, Esperanto uses ŝ for the /ʃ/ sound, so it can't be.
(Version 1.7) | |
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| Jan 19 2006 |
TOSKIMILLS As a black zimbabwean, this game is hillarious and great to play it is a farce of everything that us zimbabweans have been through nice to be reminded of everything we have been through in the last couple of years and have a good laugh at it. Simbabwe is mushee steric!!!.
(Version 1.6) | |
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| Jan 19 2006 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN mushee steric: much hysteric: very funny? Is that Esperanto? Just curious.
(Version 1.6) | |
| Sep 18 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Great game, but still crashes frequently and randomly. Have tried restarting and using Simbabwe as the only open program, but still crashes. G5 DP 2.7, 10.4.2, 1.5 GB RAM
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| Sep 18 2005 |
ANONYMOUS When it crashes, could you please open Applications/Utilities/Console, save a copy of the log (from the file menu), and send it to software-support (at) thedailygrind.net ? | |
 | Sep 6 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Hilarious at first, but not too advanced as games go - it's Monopoly only not as obvious which properties belong to the same group.
(Version 1.1) | |
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| Sep 4 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Isn't this is in extraordinary bad taste? Mugabe's murderous regime isn't a particularly amusing subject for a game.
(Version 1.0) | |
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| Sep 6 2005 |
MICKEYMOOSE hmm, someone's got a good sense of humour
(Version 1.1) | |
| Sep 6 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Can I suggest boSIMnia next? Or perhaps SIMdi Arabia? Or hell, naSIM germany! Just because you can, doesn't mean you should, or you fall into the same filthy pit that Billy "get on with it" Connolly went to.
(Version 1.1) | |
| Sep 6 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Get a grip. This isn't in the same league as what Connelly has been known to spout. It's a silly game, nothing to get upset about. Did you even play it? A round takes half an hour or less, give it a spin before you complain.
(Version 1.1) | |
| Oct 7 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Another one of those case where the West sees him as evil while the landless poor there sees him as a hero.
(Version 1.2) | |
| Nov 2 2005 |
ANONYMOUS If you can't laugh the face of horror and people who perpetrate it then curl up into a ball and cry. Parody is what makes the bitter taste of a world gone crazy bearable. Fun game, if a bit bland as it progresses.
(Version 1.3) | |
| Sep 4 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Tends to quit unexpectedly often, it doesn't give any reason.
(Version 1.0) | |
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| Dec 17 2005 |
DEMOSTHENES If you can't make fun of murderous dictators, then who can you make fun of?
(Version 1.5.1) | |
| Sep 3 2005 |
ANONYMOUS really really fun and addictive...with the added bonus of being totally hilarious...!!
(Version 1.0) | |
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