Which Sid Meier games have you played?

Apocalypse · June 30, 2002, 14:49

I've been meaning to do this ever since we've obtain more options.

This isn't if you owned or have them, it is just if you've played them. This is because many people have gotten some of the older games from warez sites and might have since deleted them.

FrustratedPoet · June 30, 2002, 15:31

I've played almost half of those ...

Most of the other half I've never even heard of

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Kassiopeia · June 30, 2002, 15:32

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Magic: The Gathering

Wtf?

Lemmy · June 30, 2002, 15:36

haven't even heard of half of those...mostly the upper half

Apocalypse · June 30, 2002, 15:39

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Originally posted by Kassiopeia
Wtf?

Sid made the first version of it. It was all single player. They say that if he hadn't of been there, there might not have been any sequels and addons.

Kassiopeia · June 30, 2002, 15:42

MtG is a Sid Meier game... never knew that. I never liked it too much, I wonder if I had taken up to it seriously had I known this.

Same here, have played about half of them but haven't even heard of the rest.

Apocalypse · June 30, 2002, 15:47

Conflict in Vietnam, Crusade in Europe, and Decision in the Desert and the only ones you should be excused of not knowing. All the other early ones were groundbreaking games that started subgenres.

tniem · June 30, 2002, 20:46

Whose played CPU Bach? I have never been able to locate a copy to try out.

SnowFire · June 30, 2002, 22:12

Red Storm Rising was a Sid game? I know Microprose did it, but I didn't think Sid had anything to do with it... oh well, too lazy to look it up now.

Fun game though. I always liked it how on the easy difficulty levels against a convoy, when they wouldn't send helicopters after you, to basically surface (go to 10 m deep, have periscope up 50 meters in the air), have active radar blaring, and run around at flank speed firing Tomahawks at things.

It was fun how I got better at the game, too. First time my rank was Mr. for screwing up the game but killing the boomers, and I eventually got better (although I did get the worst ending once!) and started winning the war, even on the higher difficulty levels. I found it amusing how much the war depended on me- I'd advance forward, wipe out Russian groups, see us winning, then head back to resupply in Scotland... and watch as the Soviets got ahead of the game... and then I started killing htings again, and they'd be thrown back from Paris and be on the retreat again and... ah, it was amusing.

Juggler · July 1, 2002, 05:11

Pirates!, F19, Railroad Tycoon, Civ1&2, Colonization, Civ Net, Alpha Centauri. I'll probably download some more just to see what they're like.

The Mad Monk · July 1, 2002, 05:54

In addition to CivII, CivIII and SMAC, I've played TOT -- which really did desrve its own slot.

Solver · July 1, 2002, 09:17

Hell, I'm not really a gamer, so most games I've played are Civ games, and in fact every game I've played is a strategy.

Civ, Civ 2, CivNet (last year

), Civ 3, SMAC. Don't even plan on buying SimGolf, and will play SMAC 2.

tniem · July 1, 2002, 09:43

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Originally posted by The Mad Monk
In addition to CivII, CivIII and SMAC, I've played TOT -- which really did desrve its own slot.

Yeah but how much do you really think Sid had to do with TOT. I mean he didn't make Civ II and then an expansion? Sid would not have touched the code of that thing with a six foot long pole.

Spaced Cowboy · July 1, 2002, 11:03

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Originally posted by Apocalypse
Conflict in Vietnam, Crusade in Europe, and Decision in the Desert and the only ones you should be excused of not knowing. All the other early ones were groundbreaking games that started subgenres.

Unless you are 700 years old like me!

Rex Little · July 1, 2002, 11:09

Pirates, RRT, Civ1, Civ2 (and TOT), Colonization, SMAC. I'll get around to Civ3 when it hits the bargain bin or a used-game table at a convention.

Zopperoni · July 1, 2002, 14:33

Civ 2 and 3, played 2 a lot (more than 3), SMAC (very little though, I didn't like it), and SimGolf (great entertainment for three days, then it gets boring really).

General Ludd · July 1, 2002, 15:38

All this "Sid Meier's...." I bet he doesn't even care about the game anymore, he just wants to see his name filling the store shelves.

Zopperoni · July 1, 2002, 16:02

The producing companies like his name on the box as well

Smash · July 1, 2002, 22:50

I didn't know he did Silent Service.I loved that game.

He does care about SimGolf.Or at least he did for awhile.

Urban Ranger · July 1, 2002, 23:08

You missed one. SMAC/X, aka Alien Crossfire

dunk · July 2, 2002, 15:18

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Originally posted by Kassiopeia
MtG is a Sid Meier game... never knew that. I never liked it too much, I wonder if I had taken up to it seriously had I known this.

Same here, have played about half of them but haven't even heard of the rest.

Not the card game, but there is a computer version of it where you wander around this little map and duel various opponents. The goal of the game is to defeat the 5 masters in each of the colors. There's a Red Dragon who uses primarily red cards and so on. You have to duel your way through the masters' castles to get to them.

gopher · July 3, 2002, 01:03

Holy Cripes, Batman!
Theres more to Sid than Civ, SMAC, Pirates & Col?
I am impressed.

tniem · July 3, 2002, 10:16

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Originally posted by gopher
Holy Cripes, Batman!
Theres more to Sid than Civ, SMAC, Pirates & Col?
I am impressed.

Yeah, his flight sims were revolutionary to the industry and gave birth to Microprose. His early work was the standards. Why do you think he was able to put his name on the box of his later work?

Grumbold · July 3, 2002, 21:16

Sid Meier was contracted in by the developers at a late stage to help give the 1 player "campaign" part of M:tG some life. The rules, concepts and structures for "planeswalkers" were already in place. It hardly qualifies as a Meier game in the sense the others do.

Alex · July 4, 2002, 13:41

I played Civ, Civ2, Civ3, RRT, Pirates! (a game that NEED to be remade), SMAC, Colonization and SimGolf (as Zop said, great fun for three days).

But we have to remember that Civ2, Col and SMAC are Brian Reynolds's work, and Civ3 is Jeff and Soren's baby.

July 4, 2002, 15:30

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Originally posted by tniem

Yeah, his flight sims were revolutionary to the industry and gave birth to Microprose. His early work was the standards. Why do you think he was able to put his name on the box of his later work?

Sid and a Air Force Officer I believe started MicroProse. How did he ever lose it? TOT what made after Sid had left MicroProse.
Sid Games that I owned, played, or still have.

Silent Service C64 Very good

Sid Meier's Pirates! C64 Very good

Red Storm Rising C64 A really great game

F-19 Stealth Fighter C64 Very good

Gunship C64 Love it

Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon C64 and PC All version

Sid Meier's Civilization DOS & Win CD

Sid Meier's Colonization DOS & CD

Sid Meier's CivNet CD

Sid Meier's Civilization II All version

Sid Meier's Gettysburg

Sid Meier's Antietam

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri A Brian Reynolds Design

Sid Meier's Civlization III

Sid Meier's SimGolf

Apocalypse · July 5, 2002, 10:34

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Whose played CPU Bach? I have never been able to locate a copy to try out.

Me. Played it only a short time though. My problem is in locating 3DOs.

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In addition to CivII, CivIII and SMAC, I've played TOT -- which really did desrve its own slot.

Sid was gone from MPS at the time of ToT's release. You can argue it should be in the poll, but all other choices deserve to be up there more.

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You missed one. SMAC/X, aka Alien Crossfire

No I didn't. I left out expansions on purpose. He was also more into Dinos! at the time to be bothered with SMAC/X.

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Sid Meier was contracted in by the developers at a late stage to help give the 1 player "campaign" part of M:tG some life. The rules, concepts and structures for "planeswalkers" were already in place. It hardly qualifies as a Meier game in the sense the others do.

He had the same level of input in MtG as SoS. I put it in because he had a significant part in poth.

Adalbertus · July 6, 2002, 01:38

I played the seven with most votes: Pirates!, RRT, CivI, Colonization, CivII, SMAC, CivIII. Given the fact that I don't like pure war games and rarely play sport games (and if so, mostly sport manager), that's quite a high ratio.

tniem · July 6, 2002, 09:28

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Originally posted by Apocalypse
Me. Played it only a short time though. My problem is in locating 3DOs.

How did it work? Did it produce music that seemed like it could be songs? I have always been interested, wish a PC release would happen...

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He had the same level of input in MtG as SoS. I put it in because he had a significant part in poth.

I read somewhere that basically said that if Sid had not come in on this project it would never have been finished. The changes he made allowed the game to be playable and complete.

Apocalypse · July 6, 2002, 11:31

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How did it work? Did it produce music that seemed like it could be songs? I have always been interested, wish a PC release would happen...

Actually it works much like many of the music makers of today. The music could easily be songs. Some good, some bad.

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I read somewhere that basically said that if Sid had not come in on this project it would never have been finished. The changes he made allowed the game to be playable and complete.

It still would have been released, but it just would have sucked horribly and there probably wouldn't have been many expansion packs, if any.