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/albatrossSKY 4h ago

The man is singlehandedly responsible for millions of hours of lost sleep. Just one more turn... and suddenly its 4am and you have work in three hours.

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u/nowitscometothis 4h ago

and you have an irrational hatred of Spain

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u/Nazamroth 4h ago

No, it is perfectly rational. Im pretty sure that Spain was the first to ever declare war on me in a civ game.

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u/JohnnyLeven 3h ago

Mine was the Romans in civ 1. I remember because I asked my dad about them when I encountered them, and he said I should try to make peace with them since they were powerful at the time (in the real world). I did, but they ended up declaring war on me and destroying me any way.

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u/aesemon 2h ago

You were playing civ during the Roman empire?

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u/TitanicJedi 2h ago

He did say Civ 1 that is about the same age.

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u/aesemon 2h ago

My god, I was born in the prehistoric times then😅

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u/JonatasA 1h ago

Don't worry, there were no record before writing. Hope you were never the great library though. Stay away from me and the pyramids.

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u/aesemon 1h ago

Stories passed down from parent to child of the old one that groans when sitting or standing.

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u/gregorydgraham 27m ago

You played Civ against the Harappans?

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u/superbekz 1h ago

Civ1 is such an RNG demon

i raged how i somehow lost my musketeers against a fortified phalanx in a mountain....like how??????????

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u/brainacpl 58m ago

That's nothing. Losing Bombers to Phalanx was enraging.

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u/Hegario 53m ago

Back in Civilization 1, I lost a battleship to a settler.

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u/Nazamroth 1h ago

Clearly, you foolishly ordered a bayonet charge up the mountain.

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u/frymaster 13m ago

If you squint, you can juuuust about see how a military unit with no guns but time to prepare in a mountainous area might defeat musketeers. Not if the phalanx used a phalanx formation, mind you - if they made good use of terrain, ambush tactics etc. I guess it's possible, maybe, sorta?

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u/JonatasA 1h ago

Gandhi betraying me when I was boxed in Civ V.