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Heart of Africa

Commodore 64 - 1985

From Brian Moriarty's tribute to Dani Bunten: "Ozark wanted to follow up Seven Cities [of Gold] with a computerized edition of one of the classic Avalon Hill board games, but Electronic Arts had other ideas.

Some executive arm-twisting and a substantial cash bribe resulted in a sequel*, Heart of Africa* for the Commodore 64, which continued the formula of action and strategy, exploration and history. It achieved less than half the sales of its predecessor."

Review By HOTUD

Comments and reviews

PatrickVM 30 Jul. 2026

It was revolutionary for its time, but unfortunately it was never nearly as successful as Seven Cities of Gold. Admittedly, it had some flaws that might have contributed to that. I'm working on a fan remake of the game, doing my best to avoid those issues while still conveying the original's charm:
https://github.com/PatrickVonMassow/Heart-of-Africa-Remake

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G_Man_Rising 24 Jan. 2023

So far I can't seem to get this game to play on any Commodore 64 emulator for Android.

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tobor2001 16 Jan. 2018

Wow.....never knew Seven Cities had a sequel!!!

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Commodore 64 version
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United Kingdom English
68 KB

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