Sid Meier tells Civilization’s origin story, cites children’s history books

Enlarge / Sid Meier (left) and Bruce Shelley appeared at GDC 2017 to reflect on the very first Civilization video game. (credit: Sam Machkovech) SAN FRANCISCO—”Let’s go back in time to 1990,” game developer Sid Meier said to a Thursday crowd at the annual Game Developers Conference. “Back when there was no Civilization.” Meier’s silly double […]