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Sid Meier Inducted Into Computer Hall Of Fame
Thanks to Firaxis for their press release revealing their founder Sid Meier has been inducted into the Computer Museum of America's Hall of Fame, after the museum "asked the public to choose their favorite innovators", joining gaming luminaries such as Nolan Bushnell and fellow inductees such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Jay Miner. Meier is best known for classic Microprose games such as Civilization, and GameSpot has an update on his latest title, a remake of Pirates!, noting it's "known to utilize the GameBryo 3D engine used by the Morrowind and Dark Age of Camelot series", and touting "multiple paths to a wealthy, happy [piratical] retirement."
I can only say this is a well deserved induction. The first game I ever ignored real life for was Civilisation and I have been a rabid fan of the series since!
I was addicted to both 1 and 2. My interest was revitalized when I downloaded the final Civ2 patch, which made the gameplay an order of magnitude less tedious. I don't have 3 though. Work and college have cut short my gaming life.
But that's not something I realized when I first started to play it.
Consider this comment I made on slashdot a couple weeks ago:
" I was sitting in 6th grade class and my teacher was talking about pirates during the Spanish empire. Someone asked why they didn't use large warships like galleons and instead preferred smaller vessels. I raised my hand and answered that larger vessels are often at the mercy of the wind. Smaller vessels, like Sloops, typically had oars. Even if the wind weren't going your way, it was possible to board a ship.
The teacher asked where I learned that, and I felt kind've embaressed. I couldn't really say a Nintendo game could I?"
Aside from maritime combat history, I also learned the name of most of the towns and islands in the Carribean. When's the last time a game did that for you=)
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Taught me all about the waring states period
I'm surprised that anyone would say anything so stupid. Sid Meier's library of games BEFORE Civilization would make him a legendary designer. Furthermore, just about anyone who's designed a role-playing game has ripped off AD&D - does that mean that they should all be considered hacks, ineligible for honors?
I get the Gameboy reference, but what the hell is the "african-american markets" thing about? Unsuccessful trolling attempt? Racist joke that needs explaining? Drunken rambling? Lack of googling?
Has anyone gotten Pirates! to work under Frodo, or any other '64 emulator for that matter? Every once in a while I download Frodo again, and immedeaitly try to run Pirates!, but it crashes after I set up my character.. Grr..
Civ3 for OS X has been out. I don't know when the Conquests expansion for OS X will be out.
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Except that, oops, Microprose actually had permission to use the Civilization name for the original Sid Meier version. My copy of the game even had a card inside advertising the board game.
I saw Civ III board games on sale at Borders post-Xmas...don't know if it was the same as the original, it was branded with Sid's name on the cover.
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I was fairly certain that Morrowind used the NetImmerse engine. Am I wrong?
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There's a native windows version here while there's also a Nintendo version (the state of NES emulation is extremely good).
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Well, I know how *I'm* getting the game.
Heya guys, To anyone who loves Sid's games and prefers linux, go to Firaxis' site and send a comment asking for a linux port. I still have a copy of SMAC for linux and play it regularly. I would love to see another Sid game for linux.
CPU Bach was my favorite simulation from Sid Meier. I'm not sure why algorithmic random music generation never really took off. My version is the 3DO version, which I still have. After listening to it repeatedly, there were several movements you kept hearing over and over. Still, and excellent non-game program in a genre that never really got off the ground.
For a complete listing of Meier's accomplishments, Gamespot has The Sid Meier Legacy.
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*Builds Shrine to Sim Meyer as the 32nd wonder of the internet world*
*Geeks Beet Zack to it*
*Switches to fundementalism and delivers Slashdot from the Comunist open sourcers*
On a completely unrelated note (or is it?) why don't non breaking spaces work? Anyone know why?
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I worked at the old Microprose office in Hunt Valley, MD and my office was just across the hall from Sid's. He had the biggest office there, IIRC. I actually got to shake his hand and get a good look at his office. He always seemed to be a little removed from the rest of Microprose programmers, not in a bad way, but just in his own league. I use to see him at the local mall with his then young son. He gave the impression of being a content, happy person. People always seemed to say his name in a whisper, even at Microprose, because everyone was very aware of how huge his games had become. And yes, there were employees at Microprose that thought Pirates was pure genius, but I never played the game myself.
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