r/todayilearned • u/DueNeedleworker5036 • 4h ago

TIL that the Civilizations games (and others) include creator Sid Meier's name in the title because Robin Williams joked that it would help sell more copies of 1987's Sid Meier's Pirates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier#MicroProse
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u/its_mabus 4h ago

Has anybody ever completed a game of Civilization against a human opponent?

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u/rhinestonecowboy92 4h ago

My girlfriend and I play it every night between dinner and bedtime. We play 500-turn games and usually finish them in 2-3 weeks.

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u/lurkeroutthere 3h ago edited 3h ago

Why have you not married that woman yet? /Kidding

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u/lewd_robot 3h ago

"We were engaged but then she invaded my capital and razed it so now things are complicated."

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u/lurkeroutthere 2h ago

Understandable, I have a brother in estranged from for skunking me out of machu pichu

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u/melancholyholly 2h ago

Tale as old as time

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u/JonatasA 1h ago

The world congress may be able to mediate it in 400 turns or so.

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u/LamentableFool 51m ago

Congrats, that's awesome! I hope to experience that one day.