See also: Meier

Sid Meier is a creator of video games very famous. Its talents of Programmer and Designer were worth to him to enter the Hall off Famed of the Academy off Interactive Arts and Sciences in 1999. The excellent commercial success of almost all the plays which it created was worth to him to be today regarded as one of the best originators of video games in the world.

Sid Meier founded MicroProse with Bill Stealey in 1982. It is within this company that it developed the first two shutters of the series of plays for which it is most known: Civilization . In 1996, it however leaves MicroProse and founds Firaxis Games with Jeff Briggs.

He currently lives with his wife and his two children with Hunt Valley, in the Maryland (the United States).

Plays

• Solo Flight (1984)
• F-15 Strike Eagle (1985), one of the first simulators of aerial combat
• Silent Service (1985), an Underwater play of simulation of S being held during the Second world war
• Sid Meier' S Pirates! (1987)
• F-19 Stealth Fighter (1988)
• Railroad Tycoon (1990), an economic play of simulation recalling the development of the first lines of Railroad to the the United States and in Europe, whereas the competition between the various companies was very important
• Civilization (1991), play of Meier which had the most success to date. He knew several versions (see below) and was sold with more than 6 million specimens.
• Colonization (1994)
• Civilization II (1996)
• Sid Meier' S Gettysburg (1997)
• Alpha Centauri (1999), a new version of Civilization in a futuristic and extraterrestrial world
• Civilization III (2001)
• Sid Meier' S SimGolf (2002), a joint project with the developers of the Sims at Maxis
• Sid Meier' S Pirates! (2004), a remake of the famous play Sid Meier' S Pirates! of 1987, with new graphics and elements of completely new plays.
• Civilization IV (2005)
• Civilization IV: Warlords (2006), first extension of the play Civilization IV
• Sid Meier' S Railroads! (2006), one énième improvement of Railroad Tycoon
• Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword (2007), second extension of the play Civilization IV.
• Sid Meier' S Civilization Revolution (Spring 2008),

External bonds

• Firaxis, the videoludic company of development held by Sid Meier

• The Sid Meier Legacy