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10 Best PC Games Ever - MSN Tech & Gadgets - Slide Shows - Products - 9: "10 Best PC Games Ever
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#3: 'Sid Meier's Civilization'

Released: 1991. Developer: MicroProse Software. Publisher: MicroProse Software.

Few games are as addictively fun and as endlessly replayable as 'Civilization,' a turn-based historical strategy game that invites players to guide the development of a civilization over the course of millennia.

In creating 'Civilization,' Sid Meier somehow distilled, condensed and codified the rules of humanity's post-agricultural development into a 3MB IBM PC computer game that was a treat to play. For that achievement, many critics (including me) recognize Sid Meier as one of history's greatest software designers and rank 'Civilization' high among the world's greatest computer games."