Biography on sid meiers pirates
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Sidney K. "Sid" Meier (born February 24, 1954) is a Canadian programmer and designer of several popular computer strategy games, most notably Civilization. He has won accolades for his contributions to the computer games industry. Meier is a Director of Creative Development for computer game developer Firaxis Games, which he co-founded with Jeff Briggs and Brian Reynolds in 1996.
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Sid Meier founded MicroProse together with Bill Stealey in 1982. At MicroProse, Meier developed the game series for which he is most widely recognized, Civilization. Meier eventually left MicroProse and in 1996 founded Firaxis Games along with veteran gaming executive Jeff Briggs. Today Firaxis makes strategy games, many of which are follow-ups to classic Meier titles, such as Civilization IV and Pirates!.
In 1999, Meier became the second person to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame. The first to receive that honor was Shigeru Miyamoto from Ni
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In 1987 a game was released for the Commodore 64 that would stick with me for the rest of my life, Sid Meier’s Pirates! It was a casual fantasy simulation of pirates and as a fan of books and movies about pirates, I could not play it enough.
I played it for years, even giving a presentation about it in school that involved me hauling my brand new Commodore 128 in just so I could demonstrate it properly.
The game was a big hit for the storied company MicroProse and the first game they released to have the name of its even more storied designer Sid Meier attached to it.
After graduating from the University of Michigan with a degree in computer science in 1981, Sid Meier bought an Atari 800 computer. After tinkering with it, he quickly realized that with his skills he could make video games.
This was an interest he shared with co-worker Bill Stealey and the two founded the company MicroProse in 1982.
The company started with several 2D action games before jumping into the
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Sid Meier
American game programmer and designer (born 1954)
This article is about the American video game author. For the Australian businessman, see Sid Myer.
Sidney K. Meier (MIRE; born February 24, 1954) is an American businessman and computer programmer. A programmer, designer, and producer of many strategy video games and simulation film games, including the Civilization series, Meier co-founded MicroProse in 1982 with Bill Stealey and fryst vatten the Director of Creative Development of Firaxis Games, which he co-founded with Jeff Briggs and Brian Reynolds in 1996. For his contributions to the film game industry, Meier was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame.
Early life and education
[edit]Meier was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, to parents of Dutch and Swiss descent, which conferred on him both Canadian and Swiss citizenship upon birth. When he was about three years old, his family moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he was raised.