Few have made a greater contribution to PC gaming than Sid Meier. Following Nintendo's legendary Shigeru Miyamoto, he was the second-ever inductee into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' Hall of Fame, reflecting an extraordinary career in games development.
Meier established his first studio, the recently revived MicroProse, by creating some of the best PC simulation games of the '80s and '90s. After a successful experiment with more flamboyant subject matter in Sid Meier's Pirates!, he released his most famous hit, Sid Meier's Civilization, in 1991, and changed strategy gaming forever.
After leaving MicroProse, Meier founded Firaxis Games in 1996, and has guided it to become a global industry leader in simulation and strategy games. To date, Firaxis has not only done more than any other studio to influence turn-based and 4X strategy through the Civilization series and its superb sci-fi spin-off, Alpha Centauri, but has catalysed the modern resurgence of the squad tactics genre through 2012's XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
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