Overview
The Atlas, or The Atlas: Renaissance Voyager as some versions are known, is a strategy-simulation game in which the player has five years to explore and chart the continent of Africa in the 15th century's "Age of Discovery". As the player fills in the map for European scholars, they can also partake in trade for additional funding. The game is heavily focused on decision making and menu navigation.
The Atlas was first released for the PC98-01 in 1991 and was quickly ported to other Japanese home computers of the era such as the FM Towns and DOS-based PCs. It eventually saw console ports, first with the PC Engine Super CD-ROM in 1994 and the Super Famicom in 1995. The PC Engine version would also later be added to the Japanese Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console library in 2008. No version of the game has officially been localized into English, though one of the PC versions was localized and released in Germany by Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software.
The Atlas was followed by a sequel in 1993: The Atlas II. This sequel takes place a century later and now concerns the Americas.
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