Well, I think I realized that I kind of had a ringside seat at the kind of inception of this industry. What is it that made you want to write and publish a memoir? Thank you! So let’s start off right away with talking about your book. Sid, welcome to the Video Game History Hour! Our guest today is computer and video game designer, Sid Meier, whose body of works include… well, Sid Meier’s Pirates, Sid Meier’s Civilization, and Sid Meier’s Railroad Tycoon, so came as no surprise to us that his new autobiography would be titled, Sid Meier’s Memoir. And I’m here, as always, with Frank Cifaldi, the founder and co-director of the Video Game History Foundation. My name is Kelsey Lewin, I’m the co-director of the Video Game History Foundation.

In this case, we have another person who was there to see it and do it. Every episode we’ll be bringing in an expert guest: someone who’s done their research and has an interesting story or two from video game history to tell. Welcome to episode number eight of the Video Game History Hour, presented by the Video Game History Foundation. The Video Game History Hour music is Blippy Trance by Kevin MacLeod ( ) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License: Transcript On a personal note, we can officially say Sid agrees: dinosaurs are the coolest thing, ever! (We see you, Argentavis). Sid opens up his lifelong dev notes to discuss how he got started in games, why he decided to write his recent book, Sid Meier’s Memoir!, and how he’s better at Red Baron than an actual fighter pilot. In this turn-based interview, Sid Meier takes us from zero to 255 and brings the show nuclear! Well, at least that’s the rumor.

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