Civ legacy collection

[bmaupin]

Have you seen Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration? It's simultaneously a collection of games, a digital museum, and a documentary.

How cool would it to be to have a collection like this for Civ, and to not only be able to buy the older Civ games but maybe even have some of the different versions. I only just found out Civ 1 was on SNES/Super Famicom, Civ 2 was on Playstation, and that there was an N-Gage Civ game.

Most of these can no longer be easily purchased or played:

• Civ 1
• Civ 2
• Civ 2 Test of Time
• CivNet
• CivWorld
• CivRev
• CivCity?
• ???

They could even add older Sid Meier or Microprose games. I got my start with Pirates! after all.

Throw in some interviews with Sid and other Firaxis employees, videos of games that can't be ported (CivWorld?), archival footage, etc.

Of course Firaxis has their hands full with Civ 7, but my understanding is that Digital Eclipse does all the work, all the way from porting the older games, doing the interviews, and even untangling all of the inevitable licencing knots which may stand in the way.

 

[tedhebert]

It's one thing to port simple games like pong and asteroid that fitted into a 32K cartridge or even less, quite another to port bigger games like the ones you mention.

It's an interesting idea... not sure it fits the fact that those games still took a long time to play vs the atari 2600 games....

 

[Siptah]

It's one thing to port simple games like pong and asteroid that fitted into a 32K cartridge or even less, quite another to port bigger games like the ones you mention.

It's an interesting idea... not sure it fits the fact that those games still took a long time to play vs the atari 2600 games....

Ubisoft did it for Anno and Settlers though, which were rereleased in a so-called history edition.

 

[bmaupin]

It's one thing to port simple games like pong and asteroid that fitted into a 32K cartridge or even less, quite another to port bigger games like the ones you mention.

It's an interesting idea... not sure it fits the fact that those games still took a long time to play vs the atari 2600 games....

In this case "Atari" doesn't mean just the 2600, it's across their whole catalogue including Jaguar.

My guess is the technical hurdles wouldn't be the biggest ones, but who knows. Most of these can be played today on a $30 handheld emulator. But I think the bigger hook of the Atari 50 collection is the documentary aspect. Although honestly I'd just be happy if 2K packaged Civ 1 and 2 in dosbox and slapped them up on Steam.

You're right that it's definitely not apples to apples. But it doesn't stop me from dreaming