Civilization

But I like the idea of doing like a...

Are those called 4X games, like Civilization?

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

... fight battles.

Y- m- maybe depending on what year it is, different armies are coming through, and you have to figure out what it is you want if you're building a town.

Like, all the things that you do in Civilization, which I used to play on, like, PC back in the day, like-

Mm-hmm

[electronic music] Hello, and welcome to another episode of the DOS Game Club Podcast.

This is episode 121 about the game we played in July about Sid Meier's Civilization, the 1991 4X turn-based strategy game, uh, developed and published by MicroProse.

I'm Martijn, Tijn on the forums, and I'm not gonna talk about this game all by myself.

Uh, first of all, returning, it's our trusty co-host Florian.

She just gives it...

It's like she's playing Civilization and she's like, "Here, you can have some money.

Yes."

[laughs]

Well done.

And right there, Micropose releases Civilization.

As of 2005, come on guys, get your stats up today.

It is still Sid Meier's most successful game.

As of 2005, it is still Sid Meier's best game.

Exactly.

But still, Civilization was a fun game.

I felt very intellectual playing that on my Amiga back then.

And we've had a nice chat before, and I was admiring all of your historical computer software behind you there.

And I definitely was drawn to Civilization, which is responsible for a sort of blackout of my life of about two months.

So apart from old computer software, what are you geeking out about at the moment?

Well, there's a lot of stuff to geek out about with technology moving so fast and especially being part of the technology company there's so much to keep up with and you never quite catch up but of course the big thing is ai gen ai and and i work with a lot of customers and they're all talking about gen ai and how to use it on their data so that's that's really top of mind with everybody

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the thing I always didn't wanna build in Civilization.

Sure, yeah.

Listen, I was always-

No.

You know, if you play a game like Civilization is the one I'm going to compare this to.

I mean, they're not totally...

They're not similar, really.

But there's a...

You know, in Civilization, you're developing skills.

Then you're developing techniques to build stuff.

And then you're building the stuff.

Yeah.

Um, Sid Meier, who was doing, like, Civilization and, and all those kind of, all those, you know, strategy simulation type games.

So seeing it on the, the Super Nintendo is, is just kind of mind-blowing to me.

Uh, hopefully we'll, we'll see more of this resurface.