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Sid Meier's Civilization

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In 1992, Computer Gaming World declared the game was "...likely to prove itself the greatest discovery in computer entertainment since the wheel!"

Contributed by Slik (432) on Oct 03, 2009.

Sid Meier's Civilization was named as #1 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking by German gaming magazine GameStar (issue 12/1999).

Sid Meier’s Civilization was named #1 overall among the “150 Best Games of All Time” by Computer Gaming World Magazine (15th Anniversary Issue--November 1996).

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on May 01, 2008.

Coming full circle from its apocryphal roots in the 1980 Hartland Trefoil / Avalon Hill boardgame Civilization, 2002 saw the release of Sid Meier's Civilization: the Boardgame.

Strangely enough, but in Sliver, a thriller movie with Sharon Stone, William Baldwin and Tom Berenger, you can spot a poster on the wall to secret room of the bad guy in the movie, a close up of the front cover of Sid Meier's Civilization! game. It is hardly noticeable as it appears in split second.

Contributed by MAT (35216) on Jan 13, 2004.

Civilization was voted #62 in the Top 100 Games of All Time poll published by Game Informer Magazine (Issue 100, August 2001).

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on Jul 28, 2001.

In the 200th aniversary issue of Computer Gaming World, this game earned the seventh spot on the readers' choice of the top ten games of all time. The staff named it number one.

Civilization was voted #11 overall in PCGamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll (April 2000 issue) -- the oldest game to make the list.

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on Jan 21, 2001.

Sid Meier's Civilization was one of the first games to have a very successful paperback strategy guide released for it: Alan Emrich and Johnny Wilson's "Rome on 640K a Day."

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on Jan 21, 2001.

Although clearly inspired in part by Avalon Hill's Civilization boardgame, Sid Meier's Civilization also draws very heavily upon the original conquer-the-world computer strategy game Empire.

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on Jan 21, 2001.

Civilization was ranked #1 overall in Computer Gaming World Magazine's 150 Greatest Games of All Time (November 1996 issue).

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on Jan 21, 2001.

The game was partially inspired by the Avalon Hill boardgame Civilization and later Advanced Civilization. When Sid's version became so popular, Avalon Hill actually came out with Advanced Civilization for the PC. Avalon Hill then sued Hasbro/MicroProse for copyright infringement. Activision got involved as they want to license the Avalon Hill version for their Civ: Call to Power. MicroProse then went on, with Hasbro's help, to buy out the original inventors of the Avalon Hill's version, thus negating the suit. Finally they settled out of court. Activision gets the license to make "Call to Power", MicroProse keeps the computer game name "Civilization", and Avalon Hill gets nothing.

This game is a member of Computer Gaming World magazine's Hall of Fame.

Dan Bunten, creator of the classic game M.U.L.E., wanted to follow this game up with a computer port of the classic Avalon Hill board game Civilization. Unable to drum up enough support from his Ozark colleagues, he instead went on to create Seven Cities of Gold. After leaving Electronic Arts in 1988, Bunten signs a deal with Microprose and has a choice between the Civilization port and a conversion of Milton Bradley's Axis and Allies. Fellow Microprosian Sid Meier convinces him to tackle the latter, which becomes Bunten's Command HQ. Meier, of course, goes on to make Civ.