Sid Meier is responsible for hours of my life disappearing. No, this has nothing to do with alien abductions. Sid Meier writes games. Moreover Sid is thee author of several games that I have spent many hours on. Among the many games are Railroad Tycoon and Civilization. Civilization is probably the game that I have spent more time playing than any other. It has kept me up until 3am to 4am because I was going to play “just a little more”. I upgraded to Mac OS X years ago, but the only system 9 application that I still run sometimes is Civilization.