Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood was released in the Mac App Store on September 15, 2011. I originally reviewed the Mac version for Applelinks back in January of 2005. The PC version was initially released in 2002. I expect we’re going to see a lot more of this; old games getting new life as digital downloads in the Mac App Store, and I’m all for it, especially if the games are as much fun and hold up as well as Robin Hood (mostly) has.

See, now here’s the great thing about the Mac App Store. Games long past, games you may have missed are showing up again as attractively priced downloads. And although some may call them dated, that doesn’t change the fact that what was fun six years ago is still fun today. The latest example of this is Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood, a real-time strategy game from Runesoft.

I might like Civilization IV: Colonization better if it were just called “Colonization,” rather than associating it with probably the best game series of all time. Then again, maybe not; its restrictive gameplay and limited amount of power in a “god game” make it something of a throwback to the early days of graphic gameplay. Considering how far simulations have come in the last two decades, Colonization comes off more like a mini-game in the scheme of something much grander.