Probably my favorite city building game of all time even now after fifteen years. I played this when it came out. I was eleven at the time. I played a lot of games at that age but the one game that truly stuck with me was this game. Pharaoh filled me with a sense of wonder for the ancient world. It probably made me somewhat of a dork too when I kept reiterating the missions and mission briefings as facts to other people back then. Classmates dreamed of being Astronauts or Firemen, I dreamed of being a Historian or an Archeologist...until the real world slapped me with the reality of bills. But that's how strongly this game affected me that even now, fifteen years later, I still spend a few hours of my free time reading up on world history, ancient mythologies or the latest discoveries on ancient civilizations as a hobby. Having owned and played the other games of the series: Caesar, Zeus and Emperor. I still consider Pharaoh to be the best. Now that I think about it, the game's still installed on my Pentium III computer I put in storage years ago...
