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Sid Meier
Sid Meier is a famous programmer and designer of computer games.
Most of his games were huge commercial successes.
Sid Meier founded MicroProse[?] together with Bill Stealey in 1982. Sid Meier eventually left MicroProse and in 1996 founded Firaxis Games[?] along with veteran gaming executive Jeff Briggs[?].
His games
- Solo Flight[?]
- Silent Service[?], a World War II submarine simulation game[?]
- Pirates[?]
- Railroad Tycoon, a economical simulation game, that paints the early development of railroads in the United States, a time when competition between railroad companies was very fierce
- Civilization, Meier's most successful game to date. It has lived through several versions and sold millions of copies.
- 1994 Colonization
- Alpha Centauri computer game, a remake of Civilization in a futuristic setting
- The Sid Meier Legacy (http://www.gamespot.com/features/sidlegacy/)
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