I played SMAC at a similar age and similarly have great nostalgia for it.  I went back to it more recently and it held up.  The setting is out of this world (heh), and the unit customization options were awesome, and added a layer of depth that MOO and others have but Civ does not.  That&#x27;s what really did it for me.<p>PC Gamer ranked SMAC as the <i>best game of all time</i> for quite some time, and deservedly so.  That is not an accolade they hand out lightly.