Utopia

Utopia is unanimously considered history's first 'god game' — the game inventing the strategy-management genre from which SimCity, Civilization and everything else descends. Two players managed rival islands: build factories, plant crops, fish, build forts and schools, manage population. Pirates attacked, hurricanes devastated, revolts erupted if people were dissatisfied. Don Daglow created a game where winning didn't mean destroying the opponent but building a better society — a revolutionary concept in 1982. Sid Meier has cited Utopia as direct inspiration for Civilization.