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

External link

• The Sid Meier Legacy (http://www.gamespot.com/features/sidlegacy/)