Legacy
The most important legacy of the boardgame is the technology tree. The techtree has become a part of many later board and video games.
Despite being out of print for several years, Civilization still holds a loyal following. The Origins Game Fair holds a yearly tournament featuring the game, and awarded the game the Charles Roberts Award for Best Pre-20th Century Boardgame of 1982.
The creator of the computer game Civilization, Sid Meier, claims that he did not play the original board game before making his game, but was instead inspired by SimCity, Railroad Tycoon and Risk. The name of the computer game was later decided during its development. Meier and MicroProse obtained the rights to use the name from Avalon Hill. Meier's co-designer remembers him owning the game at the time of development. Apparently Sid has stated during an interview that he used the board game during development of the computer game
The success of this series of computer games have in turn led to a two later board-game adaptations, Sid Meier's Civilization: The Boardgame in 2002 and Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game in 2010. The 2002 title won the Origins Award for Best Historical Board Game of 2002. Neither game has any relation to the Civilization board game discussed here, other than through the computer game series.
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