In 1991, Civilization shipped from a company that barely wanted to publish it, the culmination of a promise Sid Meier had made to himself eleven years earlier, to write the ultimate strategy game. This week, David, Rob, and returning guest Damon Robson trace how it came together, from banned office prototypes and a bank job making games about money, through MicroProse and Bruce Shelley's daily feedback loop, and the wishlist Meier built off an old war game called Empire. We look at the floppy disk left on a chair every night for months, the real time to turn based pivot, the map cut in half a month before release, and a contractor status dispute between Meier and Shelley that still doesn't fully agree on what happened. Join us as we celebrate thirty five years of the game that taught an entire genre how to make players stay for one more turn, on today's trip down Memory Card Lane.

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