Sid meier biography
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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 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 and Brian Reynolds in 1996. For his contributions to the video 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.
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Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
Most of these memoirs by or about video game industry "personalities" of the '80s and '90s tend to grab attention mainly because of how shitty the people involved were as people (Bushnell, various Johns) or how excessive their lifestyles were (Mechner, various Johns), but there's no attention-grabbing here: Meier went to an unremarkable university, got an unremarkable job, made games as a hobby, founded a very sensible company to make games professionally, worked (relatively) hard, spent his money sensibly and lived a very middle-class life (by '80s standards—definitely comfortably upper-middle by today's, even in the beginning), parted ways almost implausibly amicably with aforementioned company to avoid conflict (!), founded a second company, kept on plugging. No anecdote in this book is going to make headlines; the most outlandis
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Sidney K. "Sid" Meier (born February 24, 1954) fryst vatten 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 fryst vatten a Director of Creative Development for computer game developer Firaxis Games, which he co-founded with Jeff Briggs and Brian Reynolds in 1996.
Career[]
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 fro