Do we only have one theatre for five neighbourhoods? Each for himself and to the devil the rest. And I would only get an alert: there is unrest in the city! And I was supposed to find what the hell was on fire and to set things right somehow. As for himself, he only wanted 32 amphorae of wine.īut, before all else, I was to take care of my citizens, who got cross for anything, stopped paying taxes or even left the city. And Mister Hero had the most bizarre requests: his new home was supposed to have excellent access to all the cultural institutions, and the city was to have a vast base of sport schools and to win a Pan-Hellenic game (like the Olympics). But I could not do that with mere mortals, so I had to draw a hero to my city, pretty much the same way our city managers negotiated with the world’s best female handball player I was only supposed to make the city attractive to Hercules, the only one who could do the Hydra in. The settlement kept on growing, and I needed marble if I was set on having civilization, so I was supposed to sort out the Hydra. It seemed easy at first: I erected the first settlements, protecting my little people from the Hydra, who was living in a quarry. My mission was to build, from zero to glory, the city of Thebes. I could have expected anything but a game of the dial-up era that would get me fiercely hooked on in the smart era – as I played it for the first time.Ī part of the City Building series, developed by Impression Games, the game “ Zeus: Master of Olympus” consisted of building and developing a citadel in Ancient Greece, crossing, on this occasion, various strata of the Hellenistic civilization. It started a few years back when, while cleaning up a box full of floppy disks and other digital antiquities, I came across a CD I could not place, only saying, in black marker, ZEUS. The phrase in the title comes from the same place, it keeps coming back periodically, like a fly, and it keeps on troubling me, I can’t find the flyswatter. There are those nagging, fly-like tunes that keep playing in your head, no matter how hard you tried to cast them away, they come back, time and again, and there’s no flyswatter to help you.

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