Sid Meier's Civilization games: the oral history

Sid Meier (Creator of Civilization, co-founder of MicroProse and Firaxis): I was always playing with toys as a child. I remember spreading my blocks and soldiers and ships over the living room floor until my mom said, “Somebody’s coming over — you gotta clean up!” And I had an interest in history; I read about airplanes and ships, pirates, for example. As I got a little older, I got into board games and strategy games. This was all before computers appeared. When computers appeared, my first computer was the Atari 800. Whoa, I can make my own game s. That was super cool.