Yes, Kaiser and Defender of the Crown I played a lot. A full game of Kaiser on the Atari 1040 took about 12 hours. I usually won the game in our group of students as I outlived them (gameplay wise). You needed to finish your turns quickly to live long. Overcoming all opponents and becoming the Emperor during a lifetime was nearly impossible as some of us were simply too good in the game. When the game finished with the coronation it usually was time for breakfast...
My absolute favourite on the C64 was 7 Cities of Gold. Anyone remembering this? This was a clear civ-forerunner. You equipped your boats in Spain and then left towards the west to conquer and colonize the New World. You could use a real world map but also create a random one. If you were successful you returned to Spain with a lot of gold and could equip an even larger expeditition. There were hidden treasures as well as friendly and hostile tribes. You could settle inside friendly villages (if you were lucky) and even make a self-sustaining colony out of them (if you did really well). There was no clear end to the game but it didn´t make a lot of fun anymore when the 7 hidden cities and all of the gold were found. Really bad was that you could only save your game when your expedition had returned to Spain and this could easily mean only every 5 hours or so. I was a teenager then and there were heavy discussions with my parents why I could not share meals or family activities at a certain time.
Yep was the predecessor of pirates, sid meier played it and made pirates i bet.
Beachhead ruled.
Then Emipre and Empire Deluxe come out, we played that hours. I think then i had my first 386 PC.
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