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To: TideGlider who wrote (608965)	8/23/2004 5:22:58 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I love games, too. I think they can not only be fun, but can be used as teaching tools. My son plays a number of games, and its amazing how much history someone can pick up if the game is well done. I'm a big believer in visual learning. I think games could assist, but they've gotten quite a bad rap lately with all the nonsense trash like Grand Theft Auto. It's a shame, too, because studies show that visual learning stays with students longer than things learned by rote... I don't know if I recognize the game you're talking about, but there were a lot of historical strategic games. The Civilization series was very popular, but it was more strategy in a make-believe land than historical. There was Caesar (I, II, and III) that combined some strategic and historical game play. My favorite was the old classic Colonization, which combined strategic gameplay with historical events, and really got the player into appreciating and understanding some of the reasons and thinking of the New World exploration era.