Video: Ars talks Civilization with the man himself: Sid Meier

This "War Stories" video explores how <em>Civilization</em> almost wasn't a turn-based game.

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great video!

This copy of Civilization is coded with a unique ID number and is intended for the personal enjoyment of XXXXXXX.

good old school personalized anti piracy tech

...and yeah be careful booting up those old computers, there's a non trivial chance of fire and smoke shooting out of the vents.

If you don't have one of those, try it out in your browser: [Edit: this version has messsed-up colors, try the ones below.] https://archive.org/details/Civilization1 This version requires you to answer questions from the manual (linked in the description) to prove you didn't copy it!

There's also a DOS version https://archive.org/details/CIVILIZATION_201902 and a black-and-white Mac emulator here https://archive.org/details/CivilizationMacintosh if you're allergic to Windows 3.1.

Edit2: In the DOS version, you can save your progress to a virtual floppy disk in your browser. When you reload the page it will still have your saves!