Sid Meier Inducted Into Computer Hall Of Fame

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday January 7, 2004 @11:58AM from the very-civilized dept.

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."

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Re:Pirates was a great educational game by Descartes · 2004-01-07 12:36 · Score: 3, Interesting

I think the other benefit of the sloops are that they can turn much more quickly. I don't know how realistic the ship combat in Pirates! was because I'd usually just try to get behind the galleons and tack back and forth while firing. I imagine some captain would figure out how to mount cannon on the stern of the ship to stop that strategy.

I think I learned more about how colonial history formed then about anything else. After conquering a few towns for whatever country I was representing it made a lot more sense that places like Haiti and the Dominican republic existed.