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Sid Meier's Civilization II is a turn-based strategy video game in the Civilization series, developed and published by MicroProse. It was released in 1996 for PCs, ...
Civilization is a series of turn-based strategy video games, first released in 1991. [1] Sid Meier developed the first game in the series and has had creative input for most of the rest, [2] and his name is usually included in the formal title of these games, such as Sid Meier's Civilization VI.
Civilization II: Test of Time is a turn-based strategy game developed by MicroProse's development studio in Hunt Valley, and published by Hasbro Interactive in 1999. It is a remake of the best-selling game Civilization II that was released to compete with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri .
Sid Meier's Civilization II Scenarios: Conflicts in Civilization [1] [2] is a single-player historical turn-based strategy game, and the first expansion pack to Civilization II. [3] It contains 20 new scenarios; 12 made by the expansion pack developers, and 8 "Best of the Net" scenarios created by series fans.
By the release of Civilization II in 1996, Civilization had sold over 850,000 copies. [43] By 2001, sales had reached 1 million copies. [44] Shelley stated in a 2016 interview that Civilization had sold 1.5 million copies. [12] In 2022, The Strong National Museum of Play inducted Sid Meier’s Civilization to its World Video Game Hall of Fame. [45]
The first game in the series, Civilization (1991), was created by MicroProse co-founder Meier and Bruce Shelley. MicroProse continued the series for several years, producing Civilization II (1996) as well as a spin-off title, Sid Meier's Colonization (1994).
[2] [9] [8] Some versions of the story claim that the bug first appeared in Civilization II. [4] In reality, according to the Civilization II lead game designer Brian Reynolds, there were only three possible aggression levels in Civilization, and even though Gandhi's AI had the lowest possible aggression level, he shared it with one third of ...
Sidney K. Meier (/ ˈ m aɪər / MIRE; born February 24, 1954) is an American businessman and computer programmer.A programmer, designer, and producer of many strategy video games and simulation video games, including the Civilization series, Meier co-founded MicroProse in 1982 with Bill Stealey and is the Director of Creative Development of Firaxis Games, which he co-founded with Jeff Briggs ...