From the box (translated from Italian): Go to the outer limits of the Solar System with your spaceship, between asteroids, spaceship wrecks and pirates. An ideal 'First Contact' with Space for the young generation that, soon, will really navigate in it. User summary: Anno 3000 is an Italian game published in the '70 about travel and commerce in the Solar System. The players must tour the Planets (still nine: the game is from waaay before Pluto was "downgraded"...) to collect as much cargo as possible, and sell it returning to the Earth. The game include a deck of Monopoly-like cards with random events (pirate encounters, asteroid rains, wrecks salvage, etc.). At the end of the game the richer player is the winner.