Thanks mostly correct. Lots of other stories during the time. I was always a supporter of Sid's games, and we were partners till 1989, 7 full years, before we he asked to be an independent developer at his request. We were getting too big for Sid to be comfortable. We were working on funding and getting ready to go Public. The UK office was quite a success. No idea you did not think it was. Games in the UK were selling at 2.95 pounds when we arrived, and our sims were selling for over 25 pounds when I left the company. Civ was not successful at first. We brought it back in and added the Military, Political, and other Advisors into the game and reshipped the game successfully. Times were not bad at MicroProse until I left on a sabbatical after our public offering in Oct 1991, sending Spectrum Holybyte $500,000 on a handshake two days before Christmas. MPS had 6 games due on Oct 1, 1992. I came back to the company in September 1992. All the games were behind as my incentive plan was discorded by the new management. MPS only got 1 game out, F-15 Strike Eagle III, on Dec 15th. Do not know where you got that we did not support Sid??? Sid was always priority. I never heard anything about Sid wanting to leave the company. We gave immerse support to all of Sid's efforts. Not sure who was not giving Civ support? You got all the Civilization stuff wrong on Eric Dott. I never said anything about giving Avalon Hill any royalties in the lunch we had discussing the Civ Board Game. Thanks for your efforts. About 80% correct. Best, Wild Bill Stealey, Co-Founder and former CEO, MicroProse Software.
@pimsbury5155
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the added info! Good to hear from someone who was there, I know a lot of n the information in KZitem videos are at least partially from rumors and hearsay.
@UNIRockLIVE
8 ай бұрын
Holy cow buddy, great to see you here. Wish kim would interview you
@torhansen8570
Жыл бұрын
Always a pleasure to watch your videos. Looking forward to it. :)
@robinbrowne5419
Жыл бұрын
Classic Kim: Knowledgeable and heartfelf reviews of classic games with a pinch of corporate squabbling thrown in for good measure. Awesome. Love it 👍👍
@rgerber
Жыл бұрын
this content is another level. Longago i've watched a lot of Matt Barton videos, i even bought his book. But this is a whole other level of documentary style videos on all the old, classic PC (CD Rom) Games. Impressive
@Christian-ve1wi
Жыл бұрын
Nearly 3 hours of Kim Justice oh my bloody god thank you sweety 😘
@nanettemccrone25
Жыл бұрын
I'm so glad u did a video on my favourite games of all time
@genie52
Жыл бұрын
OMG - I am like, hey look Kim just posted 3 min compilation! 3 hours later... :) amazing content Kim!
@glitchedoom
Жыл бұрын
Always a pleasure to see one of your famous feature-length videos in my feed.
@onomatopoeia7505
Жыл бұрын
I've got a day full of boring meetings ahead of me tomorrow. Saving this one for during!
@jonnyspeed8974
3 ай бұрын
wow... i love listening to you and it always amazes me the depth and accuracy of your storytelling. I have a master's in System Dynamics and your summary is perfect.
@Red_Snapper
Жыл бұрын
Looking forward to watching this on sunday. Thumbs up.
@hash-slingingslasher1374
Жыл бұрын
Wow! Kim keeps pushing out some of the best gaming content on this platform and is somehow still under 100k subs? The amount of work put into this video is incredible. It really sucks "the algorithm" doesn't reward this kind of info packed, long form, documentary style content. It is criminal this isnt one of the biggest gaming channels on youtube. Seriously.
@JohnZingTTV
Жыл бұрын
the sim city section was amazing dude you got talent for making and narrating videos like this; so do we get sim city 2000 and sim city 3000 and sim city 4 or sim city 2016? I guess i'll go look for these videos in your playlists :D Thanks for the great watch!
@TheRatlord74
Жыл бұрын
It took me a couple off sessions but it was well worth the watch. Thanks Kim.
@iliveinasquare1869
Жыл бұрын
Kim, your content is great. Keep up the good work. I never played these games.
@oskarfolkesson4934
5 ай бұрын
What a great documentary. Very well done indeed!
@caseofquartz7366
Жыл бұрын
This is wonderful! Thank you so much for doing this video.
@theoneonly259
Жыл бұрын
Its just a couple old videos joined together... You are such a wonderful fan....... Ha. Get a life buddy.
@chrisneale7453
Жыл бұрын
Lost Patrol was pretty unique but good, great video as always
@NS-tp8yx
Жыл бұрын
And now I want to know more about the history of Microprose adventure games division. I did finish Rex Nebular and Dragonsphere not so long ago.
@ericbarlow6772
Жыл бұрын
Did you know the city skyline on the box of Civilization and Civilization II is Charlotte, NC? The Rameses II exhibition was at the Mint Museum in 1987. Not sure if that’s the reason, but it’s a nice bit of trivia to have my home city immortalized on the box of two games.
@gamingtonight1526
Жыл бұрын
Last Civ I bought was Civ III. But mostly I play Civ II, the best Civ of all time! And I ABSOLUTELY LOVE Covert Action! I had no downsides for me at all. And even today, it seems "up to date" in terms of it's gameworld.
@poco_a_poco_music
Жыл бұрын
Full intro is back! That makes me happy
@theoneonly259
Жыл бұрын
Ha. Are you serious? Are you a real human?
@poco_a_poco_music
Жыл бұрын
@@theoneonly259 erm... yes. Yes, I am serious.
@theoneonly259
Жыл бұрын
@@poco_a_poco_music Well I am happy that you are happy.
@harry.flashman
Жыл бұрын
always great content thanks Kim
@grzegorz__
Жыл бұрын
I remember Lost Patrol - I was 11 xD , but the graphic (especially digitized animations) looked so real - I couldn't imagine better graphics xDDD Definitely you should do more videos like this. There are tons of fantastic, great games from Amiga / PC, like Detroit, Transarctica, Mega-Lo-Mania :)
@ollieduracell
Жыл бұрын
I literally finished a playthrough of civ 1 yesterday. Gandhi was super aggressive before getting nukes which was weird
@steven478970
Жыл бұрын
Great video as usual. Thanks for the upload!
@Benjamin.Jamin.
Жыл бұрын
Why doesn't this have a million views?
@shlomomarkman6374
Жыл бұрын
Great nostalgia for the game that introduced me to 4x - civ 2. I still miss it because of it's sheer scale. The all-conquering empire was truly huge, even on medium map with 100+ productive cities and fast advancement. The later iterations lacked the scale with number of cities and units decrease from game to game. In civ-3 i could have an all-conquering empire of just 30 cities (of which 17 productive) and in civ-6 a 10 city empire is a great power.
@Kieran84ire
Жыл бұрын
2:45:24 - I played Sim Tower as a kid and really enjoyed it. You could name the individual occupants and I had two people called Mulder and Scully that I would follow around the tower.
@williamwright9079
Жыл бұрын
Prince of Persia on Amiga is so good, I love it!
@ni4ni775
Жыл бұрын
Just one more turn.
@nialllappin4159
Жыл бұрын
Why are those birds singing so late at night wait a minute the sun's up!!!
@OctaBech
Жыл бұрын
Civ games gave me nightmares where I was stuck at the same turn trying to get as much out of it as possible :D
@grzegorz__
Жыл бұрын
absolutely fantastic video :)
@timtrzepacz3452
Жыл бұрын
The console games from MicroProse didn't exactly fail. They just didn't have the money to manufacture expensive cartridges. The Sega Genesis/Megadrive version of "Pirates'! Gold" that I worked on sold out completely, all 50k copies that they printed. They never printed more. I think the UK developed "F15 Strike Eagle" for Sega also sold out, although there were a great many returns. (We called them "Walmart rentals"... Walmart had such a liberal return policy that people would just buy the game and return it to Walmart if they finished it or didn't like it, treating it as a rental service. When we tested the returned games, all but a handful were in perfectly working condition, and many of Pirates' had full save slots!) We had completed versions of "Ancient Art of War in the Skies" and "Impossible Mission 2025" that were shelved due to lack of funds and lack of enthusiasm from Sega for the games (they gave us a score of how well they thought the games would do.) I think maybe AAWS made it to the Sega Channel game streaming service at some point. There was also a completed SNES version of Sid's old "Airborne Ranger" game that they were trying very hard to slap a GI Joe license on. They didn't manage to do that, but that probably made the contacts that led to them being acquired by Hasbro years later. There was also a nifty platformer called "TinHead" that was developed for the Sega Genesis/Megadrive by MicroProse UK that they didn't ship. I think they swapped the graphics out and licensed it to Ballistix where it was eventually released. We also looked at releasing "The Chaos Engine" in the US, but passed on it. The arcade division of MicroProse did deliver one other arcade game, "B.O.T.S.S. Battle of the Solar System" a giant robot fighting simulator. For the time, it was interesting (anything with smooth 3d was interesting), but not a hit. The UK version of MicroProse was sort of interesting. They felt like they were a profitable company, although the parent in the US felt that was entirely on the backs of the US IP. They had their own development and licensing and actually did some interesting stuff that was kinda outside of the US MicroProse military sim mold, although I'm not sure how much of that came from the Rainbird , but I know that "Tinhead" and "X-Com" came from the UK, and that that they published "Rick Dangerous"and "Midwinter" at some point. There was also a whole adventure games division (where Brian Reynolds started at MicroProse) that actually put out 5 Sierra-style games before they were shut down. MicroProse spent a LOT of money on the tail of Civilization's success, trying to diversify into many different areas, but not quite having the quality of product or the investment to really make a go of it. It didn't help that upper management (Bill) didn't really believe in anything but the military sims.
@mattjames6349
Жыл бұрын
That was really interesting, I'd definitely seen some of it before but it was good to see it together. An interesting one was Sm Tower that I didn't know about. A guy called Gamerzakh does lots of videos about new and upcoming city builders and one of the 'In' themes seems to be Side on city builders. Some specifically about bulding upwards so it's nice to maybe see where the inspiration probably came from.
@joegrimes9232
Жыл бұрын
Civ 2 is my favorite, always will.
@kommissar.murphy
Жыл бұрын
This is top drawer Kim!
@annominous826
Жыл бұрын
I want Alpha Centauri remastered. Just updated graphics, higher-quality sound, keep the gameplay intact with maybe a few balance tweaks.
@SkyFly19853
Жыл бұрын
Actually, Outpost 1 deserves attention as much as other city-building games.
@Peter-MH
Жыл бұрын
The screenshot of the civilisation review shows the 1991 price is £35! That’s equivalent to £72 in 2022 prices!! The ‘big box’ games were expensive! 😮
@Brendanasdfdsf
Жыл бұрын
Am loving watching this even if it is a compilation :)
@rgerber
Жыл бұрын
Roberta Williams. Sierra. Kings Quest...
@AudieHolland
Жыл бұрын
Here's why Nuke Spies and Fundamentalist units were very effective: - building a spy unit cost almost nothing, less than an infantry unit I believe; - same goes for a fundamentalist unit although they were just militia, not as good incombat; The obvious advantage of smuggling in a dirty bomb by spy over nuking an enemy city with an ICBM: building the latter would literally take ages. Also, once the enemy had developed its anti-nuke umbrella system, ICBMs became even less cost effective. For less than the price and time to build an ICBM, you could send four spies with dirty bombs on a transport to devastate and annihillate enemy cities. Though I never used fundamentalist units, being just a militia unit under a different name, you could have these guard your cities, while the actual trained infantry units could be sent to invade enemy territory.
@faenethlorhalien
Жыл бұрын
I remember playing a cracked and hacked version of Civ1 which would give your settlers infinite actions and it made the game so much more interesting. Not to mention the trick (build improvement, select, clear, rinse and repeat) that the game enabled so that you could build anything in 1 turn, terrible design mistake. Civ 2 was cool when I played it on Windows back in the day; I remember the ski troops. But I always gravitate towards the first, original one. On Pc.
@rgerber
Жыл бұрын
Sid Meier is the rich man's Peter Molyneux
@paulwratt
Жыл бұрын
I spent years playing the demo version of Civ on AtariST, the world map, got good enough to reach 1% by Year Zero - did you ever finish the "other Civilization video(s)" ? (I dont remember seeing it when you originally released these)
@Will45_
Жыл бұрын
I never realized how oppressed Sid was by Americans.
@Planetdune
Жыл бұрын
Isn't this just already existing videos on the channel spliced together? :(
@vherostar
Жыл бұрын
Oddworld is the best POP type game IMO. It was sadly the last great game in that genre.
@SkyFly19853
Жыл бұрын
I wish you could also talk about Civ 3 and 4...
@theoneonly259
Жыл бұрын
Too lazy.
@SkyFly19853
Жыл бұрын
@@theoneonly259 hmmm...
@LordmonkeyTRM
Жыл бұрын
Civilization Revolution is the greatest game ever made imo
@nialllappin4159
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@joedent3323
Жыл бұрын
KIM: When I needed a chicken/ Were you there? Were you there?/When I needed a Chicken? Were you there? Stuff your chicken.
@joerogers7782
Жыл бұрын
I lost countless hours of my life to civ 2 back in the day.
@nialllappin4159
Жыл бұрын
Same here and no guarantees I may waste a few more at some point
@onomatopoeia7505
Жыл бұрын
No shit. Tell me more redundant things.
@Popclone
Жыл бұрын
Kim, how come you are not doing anything on Mister FPGA ?
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