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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I remember him more for the Microprose simulators he helped develop. F-15 Strike Eagle and Silent Service were the first two video games I ever bought.

Never had the Strike Eagle games, but I did play F-19 Stealth Fighter quite a lot as a kid! I have a copy of Silent Service for the Atari ST, I suppose I should break that out some time soon. (I guess we did get F-15 SE III from some sort of mail-in offer, but couldn't get it to run on my parents' computer.)

Oh man, I had no idea Sid had a hand in making Silent Service too. As a pre-teen I used to play that game for hours at a stretch on my NES. Wild.

Add it all together and I've probably spent more leisure time with Sid Meier games than with my own wife.