I have the original Settlers 1 manual with the rest of my manuals 🙂 Complete with copy protection done with 3 icons on the top and bottom of each page …
Masters of Orion 2 gets me like that – it’s such a good strategy game that I keep on going back into it. I’m managing to restrict myself to just one Crushing Victory over the computer before having a break but that Crushing Victory takes like 2 days to play through 🙂
Settlers IV is probably a better game than Settlers II because it’s more free form (no roads) but there’s a sense of satisfaction that comes from knowing your ring-road system gets things moving well around your settlement.
Erm – my GeekStatementAlert just went off with that mention of ringroad systems !